Most of your voice over sessions will go smoothly. Your clients will be pleasant, friendly and easy to deal with. But every once in a while you’ll get a cranky client, someone who’s extremely picky and hard to please. The client sounds impatient and cold. You do take after take and you just can’t seem…
I can’t remember the last time I ate at McDonald’s. I admit it. I am a food snob. And frankly, I would rather go hungry than bite into a Big Mac. In my kitchen you will find a collection of fine imported olive oils, a bottle of pomegranate molasses and artisan breads for my discerning…
I am currently mentoring a group of voice over beginners. They’re great folks– positive, enthusiastic and I love them to pieces. But most of them are making a big (and potentially expensive) mistake. What is it? They are doing the wrong things first. Like loading up on studio gear and building elaborate home studios before…
If you’re of a certain age, I’m sure you remember how cool it was to receive a postcard from a friend or family member visiting a far-off land. Pictures of beautiful scenery, bikini babes, giant lobsters with goofy captions, a circled dot on a distant mountain top with an arrow and a hand-written note: “We…
Happy New Year! Hope you had an awesome celebration and are feeling pumped about the shiny new year ahead. Today I’ve got a lesson in a voice over basic, pronunciation and enunciation. A lot of people confuse the two or even combine them into a non-word: pronunciate. Pronunciation is how you make the sound of…