The Most Common Mistakes to Avoid When Recording Your VO Auditions from Home, Part 2
Podcast Length: 13:20 The quality of your auditions when recording from home is as important as your performance. In fact, it’s never mattered more than it does today. Since COVID, production demands now require every voice talent to not only be well-trained and...
The Most Common Mistakes To Avoid When Recording Your VO Auditions From Home, Part 1
Podcast Length: 11:37 The quality of your auditions when recording from home is as important as your performance. In fact, it’s never mattered more than it does today. Since COVID, production demands now require every voice talent to not only be well-trained and...
A Word About Soliciting Feedback (on Your VO Demos)
Podcast Length: 8:35 Here’s a rather novel idea for this or any business: at Actors’ SOUND ADVICE we advise you to avoid asking for feedback on your demo tracks, whether we produced them or not. Here’s why: would you trust a professional you were looking to hire...
The Best Acting is Empathy
Podcast Length: 5:18 Acting is empathy. The best performances are achieved by having a deep, sometimes innate, acceptance and understanding of the unique realities of the individual role, character, story, personae, or voice. Empathy defines the human elements...
Feed Your Read: The Best Galantine’s Day/Women-centric List of TV & Film
Amy Poehler originated Galentine’s Day back in 2010 on an episode of Parks & Recreation. The idea was to define the female experience while celebrating your best women friends on the 13th of February and give those friendships their due. So, in our continued...
To Be or Not to Be a Voice Actor
Podcast Length: 5:15 Let’s say, hypothetically, you come from a business background and always wanted to transition to voiceover. Let’s say you’ve been doing a bit of “fact finding” and finding a lot of contradictory information about this business. Not the least of...
The Benefit of Failure
Podcast Length: 4:37 “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.” ~ Eloise Ristad There is no success without failure. If there ever was then I’d venture to guess that success was either stolen,...
How Coachable Are You?
Podcast Length: 5:40 Here’s a question you need to honestly ask yourself: How coachable are you? It’s fair to assume you’re about as coachable as you are ‘direct-able’. If you can’t be directed, it unlikely you’ll play well with others either. And acting, even...
How To Do Voiceover ‘Part-Time’
Podcast Length: 6:19 How much time does it take to establish your voiceover career? How much time and attention does it take to establish and maintain any small business? If you honestly dedicate no less than 15 to 25 hours a week, what would be considered part-time...The SOUND ADVICE VO Podcast
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