Whats goin on

AUDITION AUDITION AND AUDITION

Did some work with Melissa Gray yesterday regarding my BeeAudio audition and she helped immensely and it felt really good. I've been averaging about 15 auditions a day.

Today, I was able to get some more work with Spotify, just a one sentence thing. Easy peeezy japaneezy. We'll see how it goes.

Also did work for MB Missions about their work around the world. Two job day, gotta love it. Getting some acceleration.

Tonight, I did the two auditions for BeeAudio, two very cool audio book segments. We shall see, SOON ENOUGH!!!   Pray for me.

As for the Zspace audition, no word yet. Shame I really though I had a good shot at this one. As days go by, the chances lessen.  (Fingers crossed still)

Theatre and What Not

Well, I did the Sunday callback and I read with a few new people and it seemed like I was the only guy kept for a second day. Good sign? Well I haven't received a call yet and it's Monday night (fingers crossed) other than that I've been kind of lagged because we have loudish guests and I don't want to tell them to keep it down BUT I Have finished all my voices.com auditions 2 days in a row, I'd say over 20 maybe 30 auditions plus the 2 voiceover contests.

I'm also getting ready for a voiceover lesson with Melissa tomorrow, gotta relisten to everything figure out if I can go over that narration hump. ARGH!  

Other than that, I went to Company One today to visit Janie Scott (former mentor and muse) and myself and Jose Gonzalez talked to the kids. It was interesting and fun and it made me wanna get out there and perform BUT I'm kinda stuck in a moment but, we'll see. Ahh well. No biggie. Other than that. I've gotta get reinspired and listen to Fraley more, I feel like I'm lagging but I'll be back. Soon enough!

Figuring It Out

I'm at that point where I can't really remember what exactly happened the last few days. I tried to start up character voices and the first one stumped me for about 3 hours. On the upside, I did do about 20-30 auditions so I'm crossing my fingers about those. All were on voices.com, voice123 is USELESS, maybe I'll lower my intake of auditions and price just to get work. YIK!

I put in for the next Weekend workout for Edgestudio as a cartoon Seagull and I'm proud of it, but I may change it as time goes on. Other than that, I joined ACX and sent my audiobook demo to BeeAudio and had a few emails in between myself and one of the reps there. We shall see. But, it was kind of a test to see if my demo was worthy, maybe it is. (not sure) still gotta work it.

Today was more of a theatre day, had a callback for "Word for Word" with Zspace it went pretty well though I was late (ugh), wanted to kick myself for that, but I did good, going back tomorrow at 1pm to try with other people , good sign? We'll see. 

Tuesday to Wednesday

Tuesday i had an audition that took ALL day and I had a voiceover training appt with Melissa Gray which was TOUGH and took a LOT out of me, so I kind of took it easy. However at the end of the night I decided to REDO my voiceover website because people were saying it was kind of non-pro. I've always enjoyed a personal side but this isn't gonna cut it if I'm gonna go pro so I redid it. CHECK IT out www.justindtorres.com

Wednesday came up and I still felt a little lazy so in the middle of the day I tossed up 3 auditions. Meh not bad. As the night went on I did 9 MORE AUDITIONS. PLUS, for the Voiceacting alliance club doing fan dubs and anime stuff, I got chosen for 3 characters in a audio play I s'pose (narrator, fargart, and martin), hopefully the full version of the fan dub will be available to play soon. I got that job and literally took a little time and finished the job. Didn't take much time and finished her off.

Also, auditioned for about 6 characters in other anime kind of fan plays. We'll see about that as well. So, there was DEFINITE PRODUCTIVITY. 

Other than that, it's 1:40am now and I'm gonna rest up a little, tomorrow I'll give it another go.... may run out of auditions.


OOOOhhhh and almost forgot the Contests. The Nickelodeon director said this about my weekend workout:
 [Meredith]: Nice read. You get who this guy is. I think you can give Boog a little more ego and swagger, which will push his turns bigger - he takes his Chimp Chomp very seriously.

This was a similiar note to many other Boog's but "You get who this guy is." is a great comment imo.

As for the Seinfeld read, I think i kicked ass but we'll see, the contest is about votes and I have 2. The seinfeld impersonator will prolly beat me as will others, but to impersonate and to get the joke are two different things.

Sidestepping Monday!!!

Okay, so today was interesting. I started an audition and I just got so frustrated I had to stop. Then I just sidestepped to work on sound effects ideas that I got from a Pat Fraley CD, surprisingly I'm doing pretty good with those.

My best friend Kevin sent me a few pictures of cartoons that he drew and after tomorrow (voiceover lesson and thevoice audition) I start work on the character side of the site.

I realize that I may be slowing down on my voices.com auditions, however, (only did 3 today) I think that this will help me as well to have a fully flushed out site that has EVERYTHING and I can start working on new accents and new characters.

Just acquired a really good russian accent AND as for sound effect, I can do a pretty great pig, rat, bat, various farm animals, a decent chicken, KRANG from TMNT, a pilot, and a great underwater ME. Next I'll work on all the other animals. My goal is to have a farm portion of my character site where he can walk us around and talk to all the creatures I have.  I have researched some of the agents but I don't wanna get too far ahead of myself, the more I get pumped about that the more I think I'm gonna wanna prematurely send something out.

New 5 DAY GOALS (did almost all of the other ones except backstage (money is money))
1) Do a sound effects portions of the site
2) Do at least one FLUSHED OUT character a DAY and try to post them UP.
3) Figure out how to add a media player to my site ARGH!!
4) Do at least 6 auditions a DAY (lowered because I'm not hitting the mark)
5)  Find MORE voiceover Forums.
6) Learn a few more accents
7) Listen to Billion $ read by Pat fraley for help!!

Okay SUnday Laziness

So, sunday started off a little lazy BUT it picked up. I did 2 voiceover contests. 1 for a seinfeld joke like and one for a nickelodeon director or producer or something (fingers crossed that at least they think the quality is good).

After that I did 2 auditions for voices.com because when they come in, you gotta jump on em, I decided to delete the one that said Female script even though they said they wanted both.

After that I went to the Voice Alliance forum and they had a few interesting (im assuming free of charge) jobs for anime, video games, and other stuff. So, just to get myself in the door, I tossed in about 4 auditions there to gain a presence and maybe get to know some cool people.

Tonight, I'm thinking about karaoke for prep for an audition but I may just stay on this cartoon roll. (we'll see) 

WEBSITE DONE

Finally, it took a few hours of the beginning of my day. But JUSTINDTORRES.COM is up and running with BOTH Theatre and Voiceover sections, there may be an empty button here or there but it is pretty much I'd say 97 percent done.

Gotta get my auditions going. 

FINISHED START OF WEBSITE

Okay here it is

www.justindtorres.com

Theatre side hasn't been created BUT the voiceover side has the demo reel links in it and some good stuff as well. Definitely did some great stuff today

GOALS UPDATE

1) Make a Website in the style of a voiceover artist who has similiar qualities to me. (I did mine kind of like Jef Canter, a good friend of mine, a lot of the other voiceover artist websites kinda seemed a little low key and simple, I wanted some love in it and Jef put a lot of love in his.)
2) Figure out who the agents are in MY AREA. (GONNA WORK THIS HARD TOMORROW)
3) Start a Linkln account. (DONE)
4) Join Backstage.com  (NOT YET)
5) Audition at least 8 times a day AND post them up here so the embarassment of my abilities will force me to get better. (Did 7 Today and Yesterday can do better)
6) Focus on THREE specific voiceover genres to work on.
7) Get onto as many Voiceover forums as possible.  (DONE)

Website On The Way

Just made a pretty quick and fun website, gonna go through the night just trying to publish it up.  Wow! That didn't take as long as i though it would.

I went to godaddy.com and i now have  JUSTINDTORRES.COM, sweet, I think I had the .net last time. But this is pretty awesome, I'll post up asap and prolly do a few auditions before I go to bed. PRODUCTIVITY is GREAT!!!!  I'm thinking about having the main home of the site be only for justindtorres.com and it'll give choices of Theatre, Film, Voiceover, maybe the blog and other stuff.

I'll separate out the voiceover because I wanna make full use out of the name, it would be different if I only got justindtorresvoice or something.  We shall see.!!!!!

First Day Out

Okay, so today I started with a Frost Knight audition, it was really fun and I've started really trying to direct myself and make sure that I give it a second go or third go if needed.  It's a mindset I have to get used to.

So, I said earlier that I'd post my auditions, well the problem is I cant do that here I have to find an embed audio site BUT if I make a website, that could be a place to put my audition links. So, I guess I have to get to work on that.

Today and last night, I made a point to join Voiceover forums and learn what I can from them, I have twitter, linkin, and various forum profiles. Still have a long way to go. Right now it's 830, I did about 7 auditions, I'm going to start doing research into website of  video game voice overs and see what they are like.

Also, I recently ditched the BR-8 setup and just popped a M-audio pre as per Pat Fraleys CD, It's a hell of a lot easier and cheaper.  I feel renewed. I'm gonna try and get on that website so I can make a true marketing start. 

Linked In Account DONE

Twitter Account Done

First Up My Demos

These are my demo's that I recently posted up on Voice123 and Voices.com. First off, I don't know if they are good or bad. I THINK they sound good but I'm no professional and I've listened to others and they seem to be different, so mine may be done wrong. I've asked my friend Kevin to listen to it, I'll see if anyone else wants to look at it.

Cartoon Video Game Character Demo

Normal Guy Next Door Demo

Children's Book Demo

Corporate, Promo, Website, Voicemail Demo

The Goal

I'm an actor who recently finished up a year long tour with Peter Pan 360, I played Bill Jukes/ Skylights. It was the most fun I've ever had as person, but all good things must come to an end and I have the means and the opportunity to make a change. Don't get me wrong I love theatre. I've got a callback for a word for word audition with Zspace coming up next Saturday. But, the fact is I want to become a voiceover artist.

I've had some success with Voice123.com and Voices.com getting a few jobs here and there but I never did any of that with a goal in mind. I just wanted extra money. I think now is the time. I recently purchased all the books of Patrick Fraley  (http://patfraley.com/) who is a genius. I started up lessons with Melissa Gray again and I'm ready to get started.

GOALS over the next 5 DAYS:

1) Make a Website in the style of a voiceover artist who has similiar qualities to me.
2) Figure out who the agents are in MY AREA.
3) Start a Linkln account.
4) Join Backstage.com
5) Audition at least 8 times a day AND post them up here so the embarassment of my abilities will force me to get better.
6) Focus on THREE specific voiceover genres to work on.
7) Get onto as many Voiceover forums as possible.