Good Morning, For those of you not familiar with late 80s Heavy Metal ... that was the title of on of my favorite Megadeth albums. I just thought that I would update you guys with the blog's upgrade situation. Currently I am redesigning and adding new features to the blog. I was going to use the same standard theme that I am currently using on the voiceover-casting.com servers... but decided to dish out some money and buy a premium theme with added functionality. This means that I'll be able to deliver more elements to my readers. At this point in time I am
Read MoreMorning Folks, While doing my usual web scouring I stumbled on a free VO ebook by Susan Berkley from The Great Voice Company The book is in pdf format and is 32 pages long. Susan calls it a special report and is partially targeted toward promote her business. But there is nothing wrong with looking through it and possibly getting a few gems of wisdom here and there. Taji
The Answer to that question is … no you may not! go find your own desk and feed it.
Translating from one language to another is a challenging endeavor. I am not particularly good at it which is why I leave such things to the professionals. The other reason I don’t delve into it is because Arabic and English are languages that come from completely different origins… English is germanic in origin… and Arabic is Semetic. English is at best a few hundred years old… where as Arabic (the classical form) has remained the same for more than 1430 years.
The cultures are different. You really don’t realize how much language and the human vernacular is effected by Pop culture. A few years back almost no one but a video gamer would understand the term Woot! or FTW (For the Win). I’ll leave it to you to wiki the definitions though! Read More
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Morning Folks,
Just in case you missed it… Peter O’Connell of audio’connell e-published a free Voice Over related ebook that you can download here:
www.voiceoverentranceexam.com
The book is called “The Voice Over Entrance Exam” and was brought to my attention via a tweet from Michelle Summers of VOplanet.com and I believe Paul Strikwerda mentioned it in his Double Dutch Blog.
The book is 53 pages long (its in PDF format) so it is more of a booklet than a full fledged book. It is structured more like a Power Point Presentation than the standard format of an ebook with about 8 pages containing a computer graphic dedicated to separate the chapters as well as a title and dedication page… so more like 43 pages of actual material. Read More
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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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