Morning folks, Since I don't have anything to write about today I decided to make it a bits and pieces post. As some of you might know that is when I go through the intertubes and get you interesting voice over related news that you might find amusing: 1. My friend and fellow Canadian Douglas DeNance sent me a tweet today with an interesting link for something called Voice Over Star this is a voice over competition that promises $1,000 to the winner and is run by a company called desktop epics... go to the link to register if you are interested
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It’s been a few months since I started this blog and one of the things that I’ve been doing is monitoring the industry. The trends… the culture… the traditions.
In much of my life I am very inquisitive. Like children when they are 3 or 4 they become a headache to their parents. Why is the sky blue. Why can’t I drive a car . Why do I have to sleep by 8 pm. etc.
The only difference is I am the one asking my self these questions and I give myself a headache sometimes when I can’t find a logical answer to them.
Like any dysfunctional family we have allot of problems, we the members of the voice over family of performers. We wish we were more successful but we don’t do anything about it. We want to be decent human beings and good siblings to our fellow voice over talent. But we have no problems undercutting their price or being envious of their success.
And there is one more thing that bothers me.
Many of us are negative. We try to dissuade anyone thinking of joining our ranks from doing so. We claim that it is because they bring down the prices or that they give us a bad name because they don’t provide good quality work. Or their performances are lacking… how can they even sell their work and get paid… The client should be getting paid to even feature their work. Read More
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It’s always nice when you get that email or IM message telling you that you got a new job. Sometimes you don’t spend too much time in understanding how technical the job might get because you are happy the work is coming in.
Very recently the lovely Fernanda from Produlz.com contacted me about an Arabic VO for an industrial video. The job was straight forward… get a script translated (I don’t translate but I have a very good translator who I forward the translation work to) and then voice it… and then (and here’s the kicker) Sync it with the audio of the English VO in the video. Read More
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Ah Yes… July 1st, a day better known as Canada Day.
Bienvenue
I write this post to celebrate the forming of one of the most beautiful countries in the world… and for north america… the safest.
A country that has national healthcare and provinces instead of states. Where the beaver is the national animal (a workaholic lumberjack with dental issues) and hockey is the national sport (you gotta take out your aggression somehwere). Read More
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Bonjour Mes Ami,
It’s been a tough week. A few hours ago I spoke to my Uncle in the UAE to give him my condolences on losing his wife. He’s my favorite uncle on my mother’s side… tough times.
I’ve been living alone for the past few weeks.. my wife is in Jordan with my daugher visiting her parents. Which is probably one of the reasons why I am so introspective these days. I miss them horribly but inshallah (God Willing) I’ll be joining my family in Jordan in a couple of weeks for a bit of vacation time… so my posts might become a little more sporadic. Read More
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