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Quote for the day

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

 

-Helen Keller

Ask Marc #5 – Slating – What’s The Best Way? Plus – Urban Imaging And Agents, by Marc Cashman

What's the best way(s) to slate your recording? Where to learn about urban imaging? When to seek agents? Marc Cashman answers in Ask Marc #5, a monthly column ...

Microphones: Hear How Polar Patterns Affect Sound In Multi-Pattern Mics, by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Multi-pattern microphones offer lots of flexibility in the sound of your voice - but only if you understand how polar patterns affect that sound. Really, it's not complicated, as audio engineer Juan Carlos Bagnall - aka Some Audio Guy - demonstrates in this home studio video ...

Humor: What’s The Strangest Voice Over Request You’ve Received? Here’s A Doozey, by Tom Dheere

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from an aspiring voice talent. He said he was new to the business and asked if I could pass along the names of some of my e-learning and e-book clients. Okaaaaay ...

Quote of the day

“You win not by chance, but by preparation.” – Roger Maris

Career: Balancing Your Career And Family – Define ‘Success’ And Consider ‘Cost,’ by Dave DeAndrea

What does "success" mean to you? Veteran voice talent Dave DeAndrea cautions us to consider the "cost" of achieving success on time away from family. A documentary on puppeteer Kevin Clash got Dave thinking ...

This isn’t about voiceover

It’s Mother’s Day so this is about my Mom Betty Souer, and my wife Cinda Souer. The two most amazing mom’s I know. And yes, this is a commercial, but one so well crafted that I don’t care. I’m sharing it here anyway.

Playing the game

My studies with Marice Tobias started in October of 2007. Her insights and counsel are legendary for a reason. Her ability to help you focus on the things you’re doing to trip yourself up is simply amazing. How, having said that as an introduction, I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read Marice’s blog posts about celebrities and voiceover. It’s well worth a few minutes of your time.

One way to relax your voice

The wonderful Nancy Wolfson provides this free voiceover lesson on relaxing your voice.

Screenwriting 101: A Step by Step Guide to Achieving the Impossible, by Christopher Riley

A great article from one of Faculty and the former Act One Writing Program Director, Christopher Riley, best known as the author of The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style. Chris spent 14 years in the script department at Warner Bros. as well as writing for Paramount, Mandalay, and Touchstone Pictures. More recently he produced the thriller Red Line, directed by Robert Kirbyson and starring Nicole Gale Anderson and John Billingsley, and taught in Pepperdine University’s MFA program in Screen and Television Writing. Chris and his wife Kathy wrote the psychological thriller Crawlspace, currently in development at Yellow Line Studio with Amardeep Kaleeka to direct.

The good news is there is a process to finishing your screenplay The bad news: the process doesn’t make the shoe easier to chew…

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