“Voice-over is a multi-billion dollar industry.” That little factoid gets tossed around quite a bit, but have you ever unpacked that statement? Sure, voice-over pops up all over, in sectors everyone knows like radio, television, audiobooks, and animation, and in …
The audition comes in for a teenage leprechaun who wants to fit in at a high school for magical creatures. He sounds young, subdued, and has an Irish accent. This isn’t your typical leprechaun. Are you confident that you can …
While it’s important to have specific goals as a voice actor, it’s just as important to be ready for the opportunity when you finally reach the goal. And I say ready, because you can’t prepare for something as unpredictable as …
Actors ask themselves a lot of questions when they’re preparing for a role:Who am I? Who am I talking to? What’s the backstory? How do I feel? And what am I trying to say as this character? If you read …
Your home studio is quiet, your microphone sounds excellent going through your digital interface, and now your voice has transformed from an electrical signal in your brain, into a physical sound, back into electricity, in the form of digital information, …
You’ve got to be good with a script to be a voice actor, but what may be less obvious is how good you have to be without one in a session. Now, if you stop listening right here I’ll be …
Who are you? And by that I mean, for the people who go to your website, listen to your demos, call you in to audition, sign you into their talent rosters, pitch you to directors, or hire you to be …
You’ve gotten the training and now you’re ready to build that home studio so you can get your voice-over career off the ground. Prepare for liftoff by avoiding these mistakes that everyone starting out makes in their home studios. Mistake …
For whatever reason, at a certain point in my life someone told me that I could get a five-foot didgeridoo on sale for fifteen bucks and I thought it was a great deal. If you’re unfamiliar with this aboriginal wind …
Who’s holding you accountable to reach your voice-over goals? And who’s keeping you honest about your approach? Giving you challenging or even counter-intuitive direction to stretch your abilities? Or informing you about changes and trends in the industry? You can …
You’re behind the mic and you look up—who’s on the other side of the glass? The person touching all the faders and buttons is your engineer, and the person pressing a button telling you to put a little more vulnerability …