Archive for September, 2010
Good morning folks,
Today’s post is brought to you by Catherine Marshall PR & Social Media Specialist at Such A Voice. You might remember that a while back she contributed the highly popular and hugely helpful ProTools For Beginners article. This next tutorial is at least 3 times longer so I’ve split it into several pages on the site so as not to overwhelm people.
Actually, Catherine had told me that this article and the previous one she contributed were in fact one but that it got so big that she had to split them in two. Which means that I highly suggest you read the previous article by her just as a refresher course.
Here it goes!
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In 1998 Blizzard entertainment… makers of Warcraft, a computer based roll playing strategy game. Decided to release a variation of their warcraft game to the Sci Fi Masses. War craft was geared more toward the Fantasy geek and blizzard (probably the most business savvy game developer on the planet) decided that it wanted to corner the geek market by making something for the sci fi geek.
Ironically I was both a fantasy and Sci Fi geek so I didn’t need much convincing to play both warcraft and starcraft and get hooked.
The Blizzard Phenomena
Of you still don’t know who I’m talking about… then I’m sure you or someone in your family has a subscription to Blizzard’s current cash-Cow “World Of Warcraft” or WoW for short. Blizzard apparently makes 300 million USD from its WoW subscriptions alone.
The idea is simple… or at least it used to be simple. For Starcraft at least you purchased the software and registered on their site Battle.net, the game required that you strategically beat another player (be they artificial intelligence /computer or human). For you to play another human you have to have two people with the same software… an internet connection and a place to host the game… the blizzard servers.
Things have changed and now instead of being in control of a squadron of characters… you just play one… with the option of developing other characters (this is WoW I’m talking about now.)
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I just followed a link from Bodalgo’s twitter feed:
Become a partner of bodalgo!
What’s the story?
To create more business for the voiceover talents at bodalgo, we are looking for partners in many areas that help strengthen the market position of bodalgo.
Founded in January 2008 in Germany, bodalgo has become Europe’s biggest internet portal for voiceover talents. bodalgo features more than 2,300 voice talents, more than 3,000 voice seekers are posting 2,000 voice jobs per year.
bodalgo’s business model is easy: Voice seekers are able to post voice jobs completely for free. There are no fees and no commissions. Voice talents who want to audition for jobs need a premium membership with bodalgo that starts as low as 19,90 Euro per month. We also offer a six-months-plan at 99 Euro and a yearly plan at 179 Euro.
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The Voiceover industry is very much like a High School. You have the Popular kids, the AV nerds and you have the gossip mongers.
I don’t know where I fit… in high school I was a bit of a paradox. I was well known because of how outspoken I was but I was also resented for how brutally honest I was.
I can’t say that I’ve changed much since then… I’m still brutally honest.. its just that I’m a little nicer about conveying my honesty to the appropriate parties.
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In Canada I used to be what you would call a passive-aggressive driver. Not in the classical psychological definition of the term but in the more literal form. If no one bothered me (cut me off, tailgated me, tried to blind side me) I would be a chilled out cruise machine. I’d get from point a to point b without there being a fuss or stress involved.
If on the other hand you pissed me off. Then the Egyptian driver in me would rare it’s head. I grew up in post Gulf war Egypt. We moved there as refugees (I was born in kuwait) from the first gulf war and I arrived in egypt 3 years before I could get my license. My friends taught me how to drive and then I took a few goes at it with an instructor … I got my license at 18 (the legal age to have a license in egypt) and that was that.
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