The Slack Jaw Voice Over - Episode 13 - VO Booth

Hello again!  This week we are going to talk more about my voice over booth.  It's pretty basic stuff but it's important to have a starting point with this.  As I say in the episode, this is not inexpensive.  The VO booth is the barrier to entry into this field,  It doesn't matter if you have Mel Blanc's voice, if you plan on getting into VO at home, then you need a good booth.  (NOTE:  Your other option is to move to LA, New York, Houston or Dallas and get an agent.  This is the route I'm ultimately working toward but in the mean time I want to make money doing this NOW and this is one way to do that.)

I talk about how I got mine together and what I have.  You can check out this entry here where I had talked a little about it and linked to some of the stuff I talked about.

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The Slack Jaw Voice Over - Episode 12 - Practice

Today we are talking about practice and how important it is.  This seems like an obvious thing but I still wanted to spend some time on it.  While it may same like an obvious thing it isn't the easiest thing to do on a regular basis. I go over some ideas on the best ways to practice, at least for me, and some other ideas you may not have thought about.

I also talk about a side benefit of practice that can be overlooked by the beginner.  When you practice you have COMPLETE freedom to try anything.  There is no pressure to make a voice match what some external entity is requesting.  You get to do what you want.  Any, it helps you create new and different voices that you may not have come up with prior to this.

So instead of reciting one of the MANY worn out sayings about practice.  I'm just going to say, PRACTICE!  It will only do good things for you.

As always, drop me a line.  You can subscribe to podcast by clicking the RSS feed button over to the right there, or you can look us up on iTunes.  To download this episode click here.  Thanks again and I look forward to talking to you soon!  Take Care!

The Slack Jaw Voice Over - Episode 11 - Voice Over Marketplace Round Up

Hello all.  Here is a short one for today.  I just wanted to do a quick backtrack over the marketplaces I spoke about in earlier episodes since I had learned some things since we last spoke about them.

I'm really excited about the New Year as I have a lot of things planned and I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy putting them out there for you.

As always, drop me a line.  You can subscribe to podcast by clicking the RSS feed button over to the right there, or you can look us up on iTunes.  To download this episode click here.  Thanks again and I look forward to talking to you soon!  Take Care!

The Slack Jaw Voice Over Episode 10 - Fiverr and Elance

In todays episode I talk about Fiverr and Elance.  These are two "general" online marketplaces for all kinds of stuff.  Like the other episodes I go into how they work, the general nuts a bolts, and then talk about what I like and don't like.  Pretty standard.

You may notice there is a bit of a shift in production value here.  Mainly that I omitted, mostly, the words "um" and "uh" from my vocabulary.  I have made some changes because what I was doing before, while it "got the job done" I wasn't very happy with the finished product.  So I'm trying new things here.  In a couple of episodes I plan on doing a "how I do this podcast" episode.  It will be fun!

As always, drop me a line.  You can subscribe to podcast by clicking the RSS feed button over to the right there, or you can look us up on iTunes.  To download this episode click here.  Thanks again and I look forward to talking to you soon!  Take Care!

Podfading...

Hello all.  Yes, yes, I have been podfading.  For those of you who do not know, "podfading" is the term for those of us creators who start a podcast, are good about keeping it going for a few months, then fade into oblivion never to be heard from again.  And, yes, it seems I was starting to do that.  BUT I plan on making a comeback.  I will NOT attach it to a resolution that I will get better at doing podcasts and blog posts and auditioning and eating right and being more productive and being a better person and calling my mother more and blah blah blah blah.  I refuse to attach it to a resolution because I actually want to do it.  So I just am going to do it.  Nike would be proud.

Anyway, there may be some retooling on the docket for this though.  And that will be coming very soon.  Since the holidays are now behind us, I can start focusing on what matters.

At least until my kid is born.  Oh yeah, didn't mention that.  I'm going to be a daddy.  So sometime in May or June I will have a little spawn running around.  So you can imagine how fast my head is spinning.

That's all for today.  A podcast is coming soon.  As always, email me with questions or comments.  Thanks again for listening/reading.  Take Care!