Learning About the V.O. Industry at VOICE 2012
Upcoming convention at Disneyland offers seminars on anime, audio books, and more.
Voiceover Advice
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Myths, Mistakes, and Making It in Voiceover
Four or five actors do all the VO gigs. Not quite. There is greater variety than ever. With a renewed interest in real voices, more and more actors are getting a shot.
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Advice From Voiceover Agent Paul Doherty
Voiceover agent Paul Doherty gives his advice for those looking to book voiceover and on-camera work.
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Joan Baker is on a mission. Not content to simply make a profit on her work, the 20-year voiceover veteran is pushing hard to find a cure for the disease that took her father: Alzheimer's.
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The audio book business has been booming, as has actors' interests in working as narrators in this field. I recently spoke with voiceover greats Pat Fraley and Marc Cashman, who shared their wisdom about this booming business.
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Celebrities Are Taking All the Jobs
There seem to be more and more celebrities doing voiceovers, whether it's Morgan Freeman telling us why we should use Visa or Reese Witherspoon and an all-star cast duking it out in 'Monsters vs. Aliens'.
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While there may not be as many of them, animated pilots can prove just as lucrative for an actor as live-action ones.
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Flexing Your Voiceover Muscles
It's no secret that the very best voiceover artists are, first and foremost, actors. Some of them may not ply their acting skills on stage or on camera, but they are amazing actors nonetheless.
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"Years ago, men had to have big, beautiful, commanding voices and women had to have soft, whispering, dulcet tones," says voiceover agent Peter Varano of AVO Talent.
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Veteran voice CD Barbara Harris on the art of voice matching.
