Voiceover performances.  That’s the problem right there.  The performance part.  I recorded someone’s demo a few years back and noticed a very specific pattern.  The actor would give these huge over-the-top performances and you could hear it throughout the spot.  It shouted, “I’m a voice over, hear me roar!”  And roar it did.  He eventually got tired,...

The voiceover demo is a big deal.  Financially and as a representation of all that you offer to a potential buyer.  It can either open or shut the door for you immediately.  It needs to be PHENOMENAL.  This means, if you are not reading your spots phenomenal before you ever step in the booth the record your demo, you’re not ready to make a demo.  I discuss...

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...