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Archive for June, 2009

Voice Registry Podcast- Tracy Pattin Continues Talking with Publicist Braden Wright & VOWOL Workout Group Founder, Roy Samuelson (Part 2)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Audio Podcast | No Comments »

Roy Samuleson & Braden Wright Roy Samuelson has over 20 years experience as a voice actor. He’s booked national voice over ad campaigns for TV, including Jeep, Dodge, Nestle Wonka, and Intel. He has voiced the killer in “Midnight Movie,” various ...

“We Are Not a Product. We’re Providing a Voice Over Service. It’s All About the Message”

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in blog | No Comments »

In tomorrow's part 3 podcast with Voice Actor/VOWOL workout group founder, Roy Samuelson and Voice Actor/Publicist Braden Wright, we continue talking about the importance of PR, Branding and Networking for VO success. "We (voice actors) are not a product. We are ...

Secrets of Voice-Over Success event at The Times Center, July 29, 2009

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Actor, Finding Work, General Info, Marketing, Q & A, Uncategorized, Voice Over Instruction | 1 Comment »

[caption id="attachment_955" align="alignnone" width="94" caption="Joan Baker, Author of Secrets of Voice-Over Success with the Neumann BCM 10"][/caption] On July 29th at 7pm sharp, at The Times Center in New York City, JOAN BAKER and PUSH CREATIVE ADVERTISING will once again unveil ...

Digital Media Summit Coming to LA in July

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 Posted in blog | No Comments »

With the rapid expansion of Social Media and New Media affecting all industries including, of course, the Voice Over Industry, it's important that we stay ahead of the curve or at least be current with what's going on. One of ...

Voice Registry Podcast- Tracy Pattin talks to VOWOL VO Workout Group Founder Roy Samuelson and Publicist Braden Wright

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in Audio Podcast | No Comments »

Roy Samuelson & Braden Wright Roy Samuelson has over 20 years experience as a voice actor. He’s booked national voice over ad campaigns for TV, including Jeep, Dodge, Nestle Wonka, and Intel. He has voiced the killer in “Midnight Movie,” various ...

Getting Your Voice Over Message Out. Publicity and VO Careers.

Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in blog | No Comments »

In tomorrow's podcast (Tuesday, June 23rd) voice talent/top networker, Roy Samuelson and publicity expert, Braden Wright talk about the need for staying connected in the voice over industry (through workout groups like Roy's VoiceOverWorkoutLounge or VOWOL) with each other, with ...

A Nice Speaking Voice, But it’s That Other Voice…LA Times Article on VO Actor Scott Rummell

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I came across this article in the LA Times last Sunday about voice actor, Scott Rummell. Here's an excerpt from Susan Carpenter's piece: "Scott Rummell has a nice speaking voice. It's warm, friendly, clear; pleasant though not particularly striking. But it's Rummell's ...

Voice Over Resume? The Consensus, YOUR Comments

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in blog | 1 Comment »

Last week I wrote a post called, "Creating The Voice Over Resume...Is There a Right Way and a Wrong Way?" Thanks everyone for weighing on this! Seems that the consensus is neither! You mostly felt that the voice over resume ...

Voice Registry Podcast- Tracy Pattin Talks Again to Producer Susan Baker (part 2)

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in Audio Podcast | No Comments »

Susan M. Baker has worked in entertainment for 20 years in capacities as varied as casting associate, development executive and segment producer. She has collaborated on projects including the Democratic National Convention, The Emmys and The Oscars. She’s also a Creative Career Consultant with ...

Do Voice Actors Need To Be Entrepreneurs?

Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in blog | No Comments »

The question is not so surprising. We've heard it for years. The Voice Over career is a small business like so many other services. But often many of us forget this depending a little too much on auditions and our ...

Creating the Voice Over Resume- Is There a Right Way and a Wrong Way?

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 Posted in blog | 12 Comments »

As voice talent, we promote ourselves mostly through auditions and the ever so important voice over demo. The demo is our calling card, our audio resume. The printed resume is a little less important, however we should have one just ...

Creating Community in the Voice Over World

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in blog | 1 Comment »

With the tremendous popularity of Social Media sites, the voice over world is a much bigger world than even a few months ago. "Community" seems to be the 2009 buzz word, whether it's in cyberspace or "meat space" (another buzz ...

Voice Registry Podcast- Tracy Pattin Talks to Producer Susan Baker

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 Posted in Audio Podcast | 11 Comments »

[caption id="attachment_850" align="alignnone" width="240" caption=" "][/caption] Susan M. Baker has worked in entertainment for 20 years in capacities as varied as casting associate, development executive and segment producer. She has collaborated on projects including the Democratic National Convention, The Emmys and The Oscars. She's ...

Taking Direction, High on Producer’s VO Wish List

Monday, June 8th, 2009 Posted in blog | No Comments »

In tomorrow's podcast interview (Tuesday June 9th) producer Susan Baker talks about the audition process when searching for voice talent for her many narration and promo projects. Top on her wish list? "The ability for a voice actor to take ...

Voice Talent, Corey Burton, Wins at Golden Trailer Awards

Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in blog | 2 Comments »

[caption id="attachment_833" align="alignnone" width="282" caption="Jeff Jones, Marice Tobias, Anthony Mendez, John Armstrong "][/caption] It was a typical industry evening at the Director's Guild of America in Los Angeles. First, a classy cocktail party with lots of black suits, black dresses and ...

Slice of Bob Wood’s VO Life…Part 2

Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in blog | 1 Comment »

[caption id="attachment_801" align="alignnone" width="221" caption="Bob Wood, Voice Talent"][/caption] In part 1 of my "Slice of VO Life" with Voice Actor, Bob Wood, he talked about how he got his recent voice over projects and his home studio set-up (He records many ...

Slice of Voice Over Life…What is YOUR VO Life Like?

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 Posted in blog | No Comments »

Bob Wood It's always interesting and useful to hear about the day in and day out of the voice actor. As so many in my podcast interviews have said, it can be a subjective path, different for each voice talent. ...

Voice Registry Podcast-Tracy Pattin talks to Animation Great, Bob Bergen with Bill Holmes (Part 4)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Posted in Audio Podcast | No Comments »

Bob Bergen began his illustrious animation voice over career at age 5: When he knew he wanted to be the voice of Porky Pig. Fast forward years later, and Porky Pig became his voice-over claim to fame. His resume consists ...

Bob Bergen, “It’s Important to Watch Other Actors Fail”

Monday, June 1st, 2009 Posted in blog | No Comments »

In last week's podcast, Bob Bergen ended with, "It's important to watch other actors fail" as he told of taking his voice over students to an animation session. In tomorrow's final Bob Bergen podcast with Bill Holmes, (Tuesday June 2nd) ...