Peter O’Connell’s Got The Questions…And Answers

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Derek Chappell

Given the connectivity we all share today via the internet and social media, it’s easy to feel like we know so much about each other. But do we really? Do tweets and status updates really tell us someones full story? No.

The best way to find out more about the people we want to know more about is to ASK. And that is exactly what voiceover talent and blogger Peter O’Connell is doing on his voxmarketising blog.

On Sunday, Peter spelled out the particulars of his new blog series, 5 Questions For A Professional Voice Over Talent…

The concept is simple – if I ask a bunch of professional voice over talents the same 5 career and performance based questions, I believe I’ll get a bunch of unique and individual answers that others in our business will find interesting and informative.

Well, Peter is absolutely right. At least for me. I have always been interested in knowing more about the stories behind what other voice talent have gone through to get where they are today. No two people will have the exact same story, but often will have shared many of the same struggles and successes.

Peter jumped right in on Monday with his first installment in the series, sharing the 5 Questions and the fantastic answers provided by audiobook talent, Jeffrey Kafer, who set the bar very high for the next 24 to follow.

If you haven’t bookmarked Peter’s blog to follow this series, I suggest you do it Now.

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7 Top Voiceover Blog Posts This Week

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Derek Chappell

The online trend this week in the voiceover community was the ongoing discussion about lowballing and new P2P voiceover sites. A few of the top blog post I’ve featured this week generated a lot of response on the Voiceover Facebook groups. I suggest you read those ongoing responses online for even more insightful information.

Have a great weekend.

7 Top Voiceover Blog Posts This Week

  1. Why I Submitted…No, I Mean Why I Submitted To Trends Rather Than Trying To Change The Course Of Established Trends. What Did You Think I Meant? – Dave Wallace
  2. What About Me? – Bob Souer
  3. VoiceBottom-Feeding – Kyle McCarley
  4. Does Your To-Do List Run Your Life? Get Rid Of The Mental Static – Ken Budka
  5. A Voiceover Talent’s Secret Letter To Potential Clients – Mel Allen
  6. Directing Voice Talent: Better Communication, Better Results – Dan Friedman
  7. Quality of Service Over Quantity of Prices – Terry Daniel
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Careful…You Might Just Learn Something

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Derek Chappell

Last week I shared the latest Adobe Audition tutorial offered by Scott ‘Scooter’ Fortney, via his YouTube page. Lo and behold if he didn’t go and upload yet another one this week, explaining the art of ‘splitting audio’.

Then, as if that wasn’t enough, Terry Daniel, another Audition aficionado, shared his own tutorial with a very helpful tip that might just help you in your next audition.

I tell you what, if you’re not careful, you just might learn something from these guys!

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Derek Chappell

 

 

 

 

Valentine’s Day is a day of love & affection.

So be sure to show it to those who love & affect you!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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8 Top Voiceover Blog Posts This Week

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Derek Chappell

 

“I get by with a little help from my friends” – Beatles

There’s a lot going on in the voiceover world, everyday. Thanks to those artists who not only have a passion for performing voiceover, but in writing about it as well, we get by with a little from our friends.

8 Top Voiceover Blog Posts This Week

  1. Dream Train – Terry Daniel
  2. Creating Opportunities for Your Voice – Stephanie Ciccarelli
  3. My Primetime TV Childhood – D.C. Douglas
  4. Ten Life Lessons I’ve Learned From My Horse – Rick Lance
  5. Which City Is The Best For Voice Acting? Part 1 – The List – Crispin Freeman
  6. Voiceovers: That’s What I Like About You – Randye Kaye
  7. CrowdVoicing – Dave Courvoisier
  8. Don’t Give Up! – Lisa Rice
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75 Reasons To Attend VOICE 2012

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Derek Chappell

What? You’re still undecided? On the fence? Waffling, about attending VOICE 2012, in Disneyland, on June 13-16? Do you realize that Early Bird Registration ends next week – February 15! That’s a savings of $225. Just click on the banner above this post on the Home page, or on the special VOICE 2012 page I’ve created on the blog, and register, TODAY!

75 Reasons Why You Should Attend VOICE 2012

  1. Penny Abshire
  2. Jim Alburger
  3. Disneyland
  4. Voices.com
  5. Red Carpet Reception
  6. Early Bird Registration
  7. Trish Basanyi
  8. Andy Boyns
  9. Beverly Bremers
  10. Marc Cashman
  11. Trish Causey
  12. Dave Courovisier
  13. Christopher Currier
  14. Terry Daniel
  15. Dave DeAndrea
  16. Tom Dheere
  17. John Florian
  18. Pat Fraley
  19. Crispin Freeman
  20. David Goldberg
  21. Priscilla Groves
  22. Vanessa Hart
  23. Elley-Ray Hennessey
  24. Bill Holmes
  25. Elizabeth Holmes
  26. Randye Kaye
  27. Tim Keenan
  28. MJ Lallo
  29. David H. Lawrence
  30. Dan Lenard
  31. Gabrielle Nistico
  32. Rodney Saulsberry
  33. Robert Sciglimpaglia
  34. Erik Sheppard
  35. Celia Siegel
  36. Joe Thomas
  37. William Williams
  38. George Whittam
  39. Bettye Zoller
  40. Bobbin Beam
  41. Bunny Slippers Saturday
  42. Voice 2012 Show Bag
  43. Garden Party
  44. Positive Thinkers Unite Event
  45. Celebrity Banquet
  46. Voice Community Award
  47. Exhibit Hall
  48. Voice 2012 Name Tag
  49. ISDN Sessions
  50. Special Guests
  51. Tech Talk Terrace
  52. California Adventures Theme Park
  53. VoiceOverXtra
  54. Conductors Club
  55. Sennheiser
  56. Edge Studio
  57. Cury Byk
  58. Connie Mustang
  59. Pierre Charmasson
  60. Tammy Trujillo
  61. Gina Marie
  62. Melissa Farlow
  63. Tax Deduction!
  64. Voiceover Universe
  65. Disneyland Hotel & Resort
  66. Mickey
  67. Minnie
  68. Voice 2012 Program Guide
  69. Community
  70. Sharing
  71. Energy
  72. Excitement
  73. Networking
  74. International

  75. Voice Experience of a Lifetime!!

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Heal Thyself ‘O Voiceover Artist

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Derek Chappell

In his latest Adobe Audition tutorial, Scott ‘Scooter’ Fortney, shares an easy way to get rid of those annoying pops and clicks in your recorded audio, by using the ‘Auto Heal’ feature. If you’d like to see all of Scooter’s informative and helpful Adobe Audition tutorials, subscribe to his YouTube channel – ScootersVoice.

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MATCH GAME VO – Media, Marketing & Modeling

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Derek Chappell

Media. Marketing. Modeling. This week’s three featured MATCH GAME VO artists are multi-talented. I’ve had the pleasure of working with all three in these capacities. Lauren Holladay, Kelley Buttrick, and Traci Wilde were gracious enough to share their demo’s as this week’s featured talent. Were you able to match them up? The correct answers are 1B, 2C, 3A.

Find out more about them below. If you’d like to be a featured participant on MATCH GAME VO, just send your demo, photo, and short bio to derek@thevoiceofyourbusiness.com.

MATCH GAME VO – FEATURED TALENT

Kelley Buttrick

Kelley Buttrick – Artist 1 Demo B

I had the pleasure of meeting Kelley in Faffcon 2 in Atlanta. Since then, we’ve discovered that we have many of the same ideas about marketing our voiceover businesses and I can see more collaboration and idea-sharing ahead in 2012. Kelley is one of the most sought after voices today, as evidenced by her recent run of fantastic work. Find out more about Kelley at her newly updated website www.kbvoiceovers.com.

 

Lauren Holladay

Lauren Holladay – Talent 2 Demo C

In the late 80′s and early 90′s, Lauren Holladay was the queen of Kansas City radio at 101 KCFX The Fox, in Kansas City. I had the pleasure of working with Lauren at The Fox in the late 80′s and her experience and guidance helped me immensely as I began my radio career. After a few years hiatus, Lauren is now back in the voice business and can frequently be found in the top 10 on Voices.com. Learn more about Lauren on her Voices.com profile – here.

 

Traci Wilde

Traci Wilde – Artist 3 Demo A

I recently met up with Traci at a Kansas City VO meet up last year. It had been over 20 years since we’d ‘worked’ together, in the mid-80′s, when we ended up modeling ‘rock-n-roll’ clothes in at a dance club for a designer who provided such to hard rock bands at the time. There was a lot of spandex and a lot of hair involved. Let’s just leave it at that. Since then, Traci has been both a club dj and on-air personality in Kansas City, as well as a sough after voice talent. Learn more about Traci at www.traciwilde.com.

 

If you would like to see and hear the demo’s of prior participants in our MATCH GAME VO series, click on the words, Match Game VO, in the ‘TAGS’ at the bottom right column of this blog.

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7 Top Voiceover Blog Posts This Week

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Derek Chappell

 

Another week of fantastic information, opinion, humor & motivation shared by your friends in the voiceover community. Enjoy!

7 Top Voiceover Blog Posts This Week

  1. Ten Things No VO Has Ever Said – Billy James
  2. Kiss My Budget! – Terry Daniel
  3. Invite The Avalance, part 6 – Bob Souer
  4. What Do You Believe? – Dan Friedman
  5. Letter to NY Times – Marice Tobias
  6. Eleven LinkedIn Leads – Dave Courvoisier
  7. The P2P Balancing Act – Do They Pay Off? – Connie Terwilliger
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Super Bowl XLVI Commercials – A Preview

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Derek Chappell

VW - The Force

Last year at this time, we were already being entertained by what would become the #1 Super Bowl Commercial for 2011, when VW posted The Force, on YouTube, the week before the Super Bowl. To date, the ad has nearly 50 million views. This year, more advertisers are following suit, ‘leaking’ their ads well before kickoff on YouTube and other social media outlets.

VW has already ‘leaked’ its sequel to The Force, titled, The Dog Strikes Back.

So far, one of the most popular ‘previews’ for 2012 is for the Honda CRV, with over 8,000,000 views, featuring none other than Ferris Bueller himself, Matthew Broderick. Say is with me, “Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?”

With over 115 million viewers expected to be watching, and at a price tag of nearly $3.5 million for a 30 second ad, you’ll see more familiar faces, and bodies, this year, including Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno teaming up for Acura, Regis for Pepsi MAX, Danica Patrick and Jillian Michaels for GoDaddy.com, supermodel Adriana Lima teams up with Motley Crue for Kia, David Beckham for H&M, the ever-popular Polar Bears return for Coca-Cola, and, with nearly 1,000,000 views already, don’t forget our voiceover colleague Rob Sciglimpaglia appearing in the Chevy Happy Grad commercial.

Enjoy this year’s Big Game and Big Commercials!

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