Booking your first voice over job feels a little bit like winning the lottery. Okay, maybe not the BIG lottery but certainly a scratch-off game. It goes like this. One day you’ll get an email or a call that you booked the job and then you’ll do a fist pump and a happy dance. But…
There’s a modelling agency aptly named “Parts” which represents body models: hands, feet, legs. Hands should be flawless with smooth skin, evenly shaped nails and if you’re a guy– minimum hair. Feet can be just about any size but bunions and foot blemishes are an obvious show stopper. There are specialties in voice over too….
Here’s what my life in voice over looked like today: 1. A re-record of a line in a script where, despite our best efforts, I mispronounced the name of the client company. (Hey, it happens.) 2. Two explainer video voice overs for a paint company. For some unknown reason they wanted my sexy voice. I…
They joke that in LA everyone is a hyphen. Uber driver hyphen actor. Waiter hyphen actor. Task Rabbit hyphen actor. They call it the gig economy-that side hustle people do while waiting to be discovered so they can live the life of their dreams. Back in the day I did my time in the gig…
Ever since I signed up with Spotify I’ve been a dancin’fool. New music, old music -the funkier the better. So I took a trip down O’Jay’s lane with their hits “Backstabbers,” “Love Train,” and “For The Love Of Money.” That song was the famous theme song for Trump’s The Apprentice and it became seared into…