There are many trends in cooking, and everywhere for that matter, that ebb and flow, come and go, change change change . . .One of them for a while was the maxi-spice way of cooking, where as many flavors that could be dreamt up as compatible were added to a dish to make for a supremely complex flavor.  More recently in the food world, the trend is toward...

No matter what the specs are for a voiceover audition, you should always treat the script as if it is something coming from your own head.  This means that even if the script sounds announcer, even if it starts with the word INTRODUCING, does not mean you should “announce” it.  Writer’s don’t always know what their intentions are, and even if they think...

How do you book a voiceover audition?  The answer to this comes way before you read the script out loud.  It seems safe to say that a whopping 75% of your chances of booking that voiceover job comes from truly understanding what is happening in the script.  This has been said many times before, and we will be focusing a lot on this in the coming months...

Huh?  Well, we voice over casting directors and coaches often get a bit tired of our direction after a while, of our voiceover tip vocabulary toolbox, so we like to shake things up.  “Throwing it off a cliff” simply means to make certain words or phrases less important by the way you deliver them.  What this does, more importantly, is give the power over...

We have taken it as gospel since it’s been used – voiceover: a voice speaking over a set of moving pictures that narrates or accompanies the scene(s) playing out.  But why?  Why have we decided this voice is over the picture?  Is it more important than the picture?  Is it less?  Is it serving the actor to think of the voice as being “above” and “over” all...