Monday, June 12, 2017

Pre-Vacation Setting for Voice Over Actors

If you ever find yourself on vacation, I know, it's a rarity for voice actors to ever get a day free, then you had better prepare for it.

Most vo actors say, BRING YOUR STUDIO WITH YOU, and that's great! You can definitely take ALL your crap with you, check it on a plane, get to your hotel, set it up and just do auditions and jobs there. It's definitely possible. But, I don't do that.

If there's a client that needs my voice, I communicate my schedule to them as far in advance as I can. I even change my template weeks before. I want clients to NOT hire me if they have to have it during my vacation. I want clients to either toss me the script early and get pickups after or WAIT until the vacation is over.

The best voice over clients, the repeat clients will always help out with your schedule. Remember you have been working around their schedule forever. How many 2-4 hour turnaround times?

Anyway, here's a great article for a few steps you should take before going on vacation.





Monday, June 5, 2017

Safeguarding Your Audition

When i was teaching at the voices.com conference in San Francisco, I was surprised that a lot of students were very concerned about getting their auditions stolen.

This is a common fear among newer talent because p2p sites often have jobs that end up not being worked or maybe they get well reviewed and then nothing. It's a tough racket and unfortunately you have to take those things with a grain of salt.

If you really want to make sure your voice over auditions  are unusable for the client, there are a few key strategies that will help.

The first strategy is watermarking which is a little complicated but a quick youtube search will get you a few great tutorials on Adobe Audition.

For some really great easier ways to safeguard your auditions, check out this article I wrote a few months ago.

Safeguarding Your Voice Over Auditions



Have a great week!!!