Well we made it! Here we are at the last day of the year. I couldn’t let it go by without a quick post to wish you all a happy New Year. I still have one more post about agents in VO, but the holidays got the best of me so I figured I’d save…
If you’ve been in the VO industry for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years, you will have noticed massive changes. I’ve noticed changes just in the past five years! Jobs used to pay more. There were more campaigns and long-term contracts. There were less voice actors and hardly anyone had a home studio. If you did have one, you had a serious advantage. And if it sounded good, even doubly or triply so!
Summer can be a little slow for voiceover. Particularly the month of July! Like all good over-achievers, I start to feel a bit lost if I’m not generally accomplishing things or doing something constructive. To that end, I offer up a list of 10 things you can do while it’s “dead”: 1. Organize your computer….
For weeks, I’ve been thinking about something I read. It was actually an excerpt from my horoscope last month. Not exactly the NY Times, I know, but this one part has been working on me, repeatedly. “ …so you may not actually know that you have massive support across the board, from peers and higher…
Here’s Part 3 of my series dedicated to the newbie exploring voiceover. If you missed the first two, click the links below! Ok, so now you know you’re the right kind of person for the job (Is Voiceover for me?) and you know a bit about the industry (Genres in VO) …so where do you…
Before tackling how to actually get started in VO (which I’ll cover next week), I realized it’s good for newbies to know a bit about the industry itself and it’s various opportunities. Voiceover is comprised of many different genres, each with their own flavor (and superstars!). Here are the 10 main categories:
Last year I had a strong impulse to organize and execute a group vision boarding party at the beginning of the year. I had done vision boards before and found it to be a very powerful experience. I kept thinking about it and thinking about it…and ultimately never did it. On Friday I facilitated a…
I am just so amazed at what everyone is up to these days. Everywhere I look, friends are accomplishing things, living their dreams, going for it. It is exciting. I have a friend who just played Madison Square Garden. A week later she was in the studio playing on the new Paul McCartney record (and…