Doug de Nance
As a voice professional, I perform the craft in the traditional way – the way you’d expect. I voice commercials and promos and do a whack of corporate narration. I even sneak in a little animation voicing now and then.
But I have a secret. A dirty little secret. A secret that Taji asked me to share with you. It took me a while to work up the courage, but I feel I have finally come to the moment where I can share it with you. OK, so here goes…
I announce monster truck shows.
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Good morning Peoples of the world, Today I would like to invite you to visit my new project website called I Love Voice-Over Work the site is dedicated to voice-over professionals who would like to share their stories with the rest of the voice-over community. Currently I have it up as subdomain on voiceemporium.com: http://community.voiceemporium.com If you would like to leave a story you can do so using your name (by registering ... its free!) or you can leave the story without registering and that will be automatically filed under anonymous. This type of website is not my original idea... it was originally started
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There is an old proverb that goes:
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
What I’d like to talk about today is something that affects nearly all of us as Voice Over Artists. We cannot live without it and if its done badly can be one of the most torturous parts of our job.
The Script.
I believe that I recently mentioned that I was in the middle of recording an Audio Book. The script works on my two main strengths… English and Arabic. Its a bilingual text and usually a book like this wouldn’t take me any time at all to record.
Unfortunately, I had not read the full script of the book before accepting the job. I had read the original book in Arabic and thought that I wouldn’t have any problems reading it translated.
Suffice it to say that the book is an excellent Read but was not written to be Read Out Load. When reading a passage to yourself you can always go back and make sense of it … you can do this over and over until the whole structure of the sentence becomes clear to you. Now imagine doing this while recording a 182 page book…. out loud… Doesn’t work. Read More
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So I finally got around to Steven Lowell’s answer to my post Voice123 wants to turn my account inacctive
and loe and behold… I read this in his blog post answer (please keep in mind that he provided this answer to put my mind at ease)
” Now, I am sure that we all like to park ourselves on websites for good exposure, but the plain and simple truth is…You are either in this voice over business or you are not. It is not wise to throw your name on a website with the hopes they will find you, and then, not pay attention to it. You have to be there to answer when someone comes fishing around to offer work for you. In the eyes of those ‘looking for talent’, they have specifically stated they view this as false advertising. ”
First let me define the term Public Relations: Read More
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So I was thinking a few days back of this guy that used to do all these speed talking spots back in the 80s (when I was in my teens) and I did some research and his name is John Moschitta Jr.
Here he is doing a FedEx Advert:
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