Sad but true… I now have Friday afternoons free. As I was preparing this morning for the final session of this six-week workshop, it struck me suddenly how much I was going to miss this weekly gathering, and the people with whom I’ve shared the experience. The baker’s dozen of us — plus Samantha, of [...]
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The song is ended, but the melody lingers on
April 17, 2009You do me, and I’ll do you
April 13, 2009We did an interesting exercise last week in my Friday afternoon workshop. During our first meeting five weeks ago, we were each secretly assigned another participant to “shadow.” For our fifth session, we were to bring a script perfectly suited to the person we have been observing, and perform that script in the booth as [...]
New morning, new day
April 3, 2009I had an infinitely better Friday this week than last. Today’s VO workshop was busy, busy, busy. I had six — count ‘em, six — opportunities in the booth today, and while I don’t know that any of the six displayed my finest work, all of them flowed more easily and less painfully than anything [...]
13 again
March 28, 2009In the third week of a six-week Friday afternoon VO workshop, I hit the wall. Whenever I have a weekly class, there’s always one week where my frustration with my progress — or, more accurately, my self-perceived lack of progress — escalates to the point that I drive home quivering on the precipice of surrender. [...]
Game on!
March 23, 2009Last weekend, I participated in a two-day workshop on voicing video games. Now, you have to understand — when I was actively playing video games, they rarely included voices. I’m from the era of Asteroids, Space Invaders, and Donkey Kong here. The most sophisticated item in the arcade back then was Dragon’s Lair. (You young [...]
Pat-urday in San Francisco
March 9, 2009Now that I’ve had a moment to rest and recover, here’s the lowdown on last Saturday’s workshop. Pat Fraley titled the event Audition Technique Masters, which probably described everyone in the room other than me. Pat invited agent John Erlendson, principal of San Francisco’s JE Talent, to direct one of the two sessions. Sydney Rainin, [...]
