I was recently gifted with a simple truth: there are no accidents; and it seems as though the Universe is on a mission to prove her point, bombarding me with synchronicity. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events, apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, […]
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2 I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends My VO pals and I had our first small group workout of 2011 last night. Per the advice and the encouragement of our professional voiceover coaches, about a half-dozen of us get together every other week to run scripts, provide […]
7 Guidelines for Voice Over Work Out Routines
Lilting–or lifting up the voice–is a vocal affectation predominantly associated with, like, Valley Girls, but it seems to have taken on a life of its own amongst twenty- and thirty-somethings, you know? I do it, too. But I was unaware of the tendency until my voice-over coaches called me out […]
Why You Shouldn’t Lilt On Mic and In Real Life
Originally published by Peter O’Connell on his blog audio’connell’s voxmarketising. Click here for the complete post. You know how new products come out with a new version and say “It’s Better Than Ever!”? Well, with this year’s unofficial announcer’s audition (faux-dition), it’s true because we have one doozy of a […]
Audio’connell’s Faux-ditions: Unofficial Voice Over Casting Call for The Price ...
Recently, I had a voice over coaching session with Elaine Clark and mentioned my relatively new interest in voicing educational toys and games. One thing led to another, and Elaine brought up the explosion of social media gaming and its impact on the industry at large. Games like Facebook’s FarmVille […]