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July 17th, 2008

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Auditions for voice actors in the new era – the best way to ensure more bookings.

If you follow trends, we can say that the voice of business during casting turned to online sources. At the very least, it becomes the most economical way for new talent to break into the market and to be heard. Many of these risk young talent on the market with the house has made all demos, packaging, websites, commercial copy, facilities studio and the list continues. They send out home made CD they made in their home studio, labeled with their house label and promote it their websites homemade. Not to frown on this, because that is how almost everyone gets going. The problem is now … All The world wants to be a boy or a girl voice, which means that the talent pool, or somewhat stagnant water for that matter, got muddy with demo Demo after demo after the market talent after talent after talent .. You understand what I want I guess.

A lot of these guys and girls are filtered by the cost of doing business, and many become discouraged after a few attempts to get hired, and they also go by the wayside. What is good for all of us who choose on a daily basis to stay in the game and continue to deal with rejection and other headaches that come with the company. What does leave behind is the chaff of those who have opted for greener pastures. Producer shelves continue to be lined of demo tapes and CDs.

I have been in many organizations and it is almost laughable that some people will send to agents trying to drum up business. All that has to do is watch the new season of American Idol to see how people throw half of attempts heart to get to the big leagues. At times we are all guilty. I noticed some time that I had "a bit lazy in the hearing process. After 10 years, you tend to develop a routine where by you anyway. I sat back and took a insight on how I was physically positioned when submitting auditions online. There I was at the console mixing studio, seated before the microphone I usually use for coaching, discussion, and ISDN recording booth sessions.The microphone stand that he is was set to low, I slumped in my chair, leaning to the right a little and do a little more to grumble my way through the hearings. Then, with little concern, I would make some basic changes to the file and the ship off. I had the time, stopped to good amount of effort in the hearings. I was still doing a good job. The question is, I did the best job I could. The answer is not. I could certainly do much better. I began by reorganizing the microphone that I had to get up to use it. No more of this meeting and pull them out as they do not matter. I get up to all the other production that I do, why not just put all effort in the auditions? It is a fairly easy one to answer … Auditioning is tedious and boring. The only thing that makes it tolerable is the idea you could land something of the case. And your spirit is renewed each time you do.

Auditioning is also one of those things we must do to get a job, so after a while it becomes like the removal of waste. If we do not, nobody – and as long as nobody is looking, we can let accumulate for some time. What happens after it sits for a while? He starts to stink. Much the same way we do after hearings, we begin to see them as a chore, or something "that is beneath us" because we have done this long enough and we know what we do.

What a bad attitude to have. Each audition is a new opportunity to revive. We get up, stand up straight, (or in my case, get up) and go after the head new job with some real pleasure. I acquired some Studio auditions in the last month or so where you can say that the talent just does not care or thought the job was beneath them for some reason. So why not even the application? If you do not give it your all, why even take the time? Some of these hearings were mixed with young talent who tried too hard for his "Cool".

You can hear it in all aspects of audio they have sent more. Tender and shoving to look like who knows what. The only thing they do sound like anyone but themselves. But compared to the talent known as "called" from their reading, the two demos sound strikingly familiar to another. How you ask? They were just not right. Of the approximately 100 submissions, I received almost half of them hit the round file (trash) because of the audio quality alone. If they were sending junk like this in an attempt to get a concert, what nightmares I would have to face if I had to produce their own audio studio? Of the remaining 60% or more, some of them nailed. Just plain old nailed. They obtained read, they got the voice, and they got the interpretation. It makes it difficult to decide who to choose.

Then there was the Shatners the pack – is the depreciation of self Shatner I speak. They just pushed too hard, or tried to do something that was totally out of their range or experimental. Hearings should never be "experimental." Sometimes it was just a small problem that can be ignored if there was not anyone else to choose, but in this case, there were other talents that have hit the nail on the head. Other Once it was obvious, some talents chose to put their own words in the script because they did not like the way it was written, then there were the English teachers who took it upon themselves to correct us as if we were the authors of the copy. I mean they actually took the time to read them early to say, "Oh, and by the way ______ is not the correct use of the word" or "this part the script really needs a job. Absolute not NOS. I do not like who you are .. The words on the page are the words that the client wants to hear. You will never get hired if you think you can just despise the people who wrote the script. At least we will not hire you. It is not clear whether someone had the courtesy to call on the phone and start with "I have some concerns about the copy." they would diverted to never hear from us again.

At least, the producer or the customer may be listening. Sometimes the talents have some very good things, and they get thanked. But anyone who thinks they can stand on the summit of the mountain as a sort of authority Shakespeare and dictate to customers and producers of this is and is not a right but I have other things to come. Fortunately, it is usually not much people have .. Needless to say that their demos ended up in the round file too.

Then there were those who made you laugh. Again, think of American Idol … Auditions for Mom's in the kitchen on his laptop computer with a microphone for $ 5 and little Johnny is riding his Big Wheel on the linoleum floor Jenny and little Johnny is screaming in the background. In the midst of his reading, revolves around mother to her children Shoosh "Would you all calm down, Mama tries to do something here .. "I'm not joking, she actually left the party to the hearing.

This would be the "glitter" I mentioned earlier. Just people who had no business even trying but they continue to try anyway. There were a few of these hearings. They have been remarkable! This is the only time I had a client who ride in tears on my studio floor, and if you've been in workshop you know there is not enough room to ride. (A quick note to all those who submitted your demos to the studio last month: This article has not been inspired by one of your work. It refers to completely independent demos submitted by people actually an audition for a jobs we have done. I just wanted you to know .. Thank you)

The point I am trying to make is this: There are a lot of competition for voice work there. Some of the best talent in the world apply for the same jobs in the rest of us. In addition to some of the worst atrocities. We must find of a way to make sure we do not look like it if we try to become the best of ourselves. great new talent and are guilty of do not put the right foot on occasion. In those instances the bad and the good VO in turn, sounded the best VO bad, or at least not as bad the worst. The only way we can fight against our natural tendency towards growth of convenience switch up our way of doing things.

Also be aware, the only people who survive in this case are loans at zero and begin their path to the summit. The really hungry ones who refuse not take to answer are those who will survive many rejection.Rejection is only part of the game's voice acting is more. It is as much as himself acting. The only difference is in the market today, it is rarely an audience of vocal talent. When you have go in a studio all the time to work in the business there was always a kind of public. Even if only the producer and engineer. In New York, almost all auditions you go on a public. That's the beauty of the trend I mentioned at the beginning and slowly but surely the need to leave home for the hearing fades. I doubt it will ever be completely gone. Large companies are not known have left their own talents with studios run wild with projects large advertisers. However, if your studio is pretty good and that your reputation is such that the producer feels comfortable with the product you provide, you will find that many of "Do it your" type productions are possible.

So I can not overemphasize the need for you to the bone on your hearing skills, and ensure that the product that you send clients is the best it can be.

Look around you, see if there are ways to improve your product. Have you spent lot of time sitting at your audition? Well be up. Have you done a lot of quick editing pass on your bed?
Then start to spend a little more time on them, or try to read each script three times and choosing the best of the bunch. Maybe you do not know what is the best .. Place a studio Note, we will tell you the difference.

The family can be a big problem. Not only are they noisy, but you do not feel comfortable reading aloud with them within earshot. Many times the family can be a real killer. If they do not fully understand your quest, they are likely to bug you about it, or give you a hard time making fun of you or make fun of reading or the voice that you try to deliver. They do not realize the effect they have on you. It's the same regime. If you start to lose some weight and go to a function of the family in the same blows a family member uses to congratulate you on your success, they say the words "Here, take a piece of pie." or "Everyone in the pizza? "I heard some people liken it to the family member is unconsciously jealous of you, and do things to derail or sabotage your efforts. Without this turning into an episode of Dr. Phil, or I turn you on your family, just know this:

For some reason, family members or people in the house will be empty or decide to re-tile the kitchen 2 minutes after you sit down to read. They are just going to do, and they will do it again and again. Until you understand them. You need them to sit down and talk with them. You get the point across, however, you can, you try to do one of the toughest, most unnatural thing in the world, and you try to save her life. You need to understand interruptions or how their contempt for what you are trying to do is what makes it impossible for you to do. Once they have understood, with a little practice and some reminders, most members of the family begins to be a little more understanding, and may eventually turn into your biggest supporters.

If they continue to be obstructionist after trying to talk to them, so I think it gives some value to the whole jealousy thing. If you find that family members have at home, it is difficult for you to really get into what you do, you're not alone. They bother me too much. This is why the normally private, you can find the best. If there is no privacy, and you're afraid someone might hear you, you'll just have to recover. This is a performance art, and no player had ever famous for his stage shower. You'll have to learn this stuff on the belt, even if someone can hear you.

While we're on the topic of the family: Have you started to read your scripts while Johnny and Jenny seem to have a WWF cage match in the background? If so, exercise the demons themselves, by providing a book to read on the other side of the house or something. Oh .. One last thing .. Please turn off your baby monitor if you keep it in the "Studio". We had a couple of those too. You would not believe some of the stuff people send … American Idol all over again.

Take a look at your environment in the studio. Anything that makes noise at your place is subject to sensitive ears when you send it. People who are listening your work are usually seated at least four feet from $ 1000 dollar monitors (speakers and all you fans of American Idol WWF) and can hear your fingernails growing. Soundproofing is a good hobby to study, or at least get some information about it if you want to land more work.

Take a serious look at your audio system. What is (or is not) in the path of your signal? Do you have the most modest configurations, or do you have each piece of equipment known to man connected to your microphone. Tours of the combustion equipment rack in background give your studio a ton of heat and noise. locate them in another room, or better still unplug them and put them on Ebay. In most cases, producers are looking for a good, clean, dry sound. No effect, no treatment, nothing. Now I know you "Radio Gods" would deny that, and you a valid argument. Many producers hiring voice imaging are looking for full audio, and you need things to do your work. Many talents to produce their own audio, which does not in turn make good producers. Production techniques are derived either from a tutor or the Hard Way (years of effort to do things yourself).

Beware of the opinions of audiophiles worldwide. Although they have many good points when it comes to the true fidelity of music, as applied to commercial voice work, a lot of audio you produce with your setup is $ 20,000 led to a $ 2 dollar Chinese speaker has done. Knowing the difference is the real trick. This brings me another way you can polish your product. Know which medium he headed. If you have been hired to voice and produce a reading of a site Web, there is not much sense to create a masterpiece better suited for THX and Skywalker Sound. Your file will not play in a movie theater, it goes out of computer speakers to a person at work. I actually witnessed audio rumble a low-metal speakers off Dell their office before .. There is no need.

I had some VO's who like to think of themselves (and only themselves lot of time) that "audiophile". Some of them in the not so distant past. They were very talented people with production very good ears. Unfortunately, their talent was only a shadow of their own arrogance that characterized as "audio sounds good." Many of they depict such esoteric corners where the only production they will do is for the Boss Jock, who litter the AM and FM online. Of course, it's good job if you're enough. But does it make you a voice talent? Maybe .. But this kind of voice talent? This is a one trick pony and just good anything else? More than likely.

Sorry to break the news to you, the imaging station is not the voice. This is part of it. But this is not the real deal. This is the radio. Being able to say: "The best of music in all the hit of Barbados" is not quite the same thing as making a narration of the story for two hours, the chain of the U.S. Army, A & E or Discovery. Producers who work for these companies steer clear of anyone with a radio "or" Advertiser "and its Last time I checked, the imagery is paying about $ 150 dollars a sheet, while narration and the talents of top shelf commercial can make $ 750 to $ 1,500 for 10 seconds of their voices. Which do you want to grow up to be? Hearings to be assigned a day with management as "If Advertisers not please "and" Not looking for a radio guy, but a real person. "

Goes to show you that many people there do not consider "Guys Radio" real people. If you have already worked in radio, what I did for four years, you know that in many cases, it is the truth. Many people on the radio like nothing but people. Perhaps some part of the body of a person, but not people. Ok, I'll stop writing. Wait a minute, that's my opinion. I confess. Therefore, I'll do what I Please please. As opinions go, just like the radio guys, everybody has one.

The trick to landing more gigs lies in your ability to satisfy the masses. Whether companies in the world oppressed get the same kind of hearing that the big get. Do not deliver a lame duck just type because it is a small customer. Give him the same product as you try to give Pepsi or McDonald's and let the auditions bad for the people OV bad there. Strive to do your best with every chance you get. If you need advice or do not know if you are doing the right thing. I am always available to talk.

Take a look at the time of day you are auditioning and see if there is no way you can do it sooner. See if you can listen first thing in the morning, within four hours of sunrise. It's time that your head is clear, your voice is most rested and there is almost everything happening in the world. If you work at night, or can not hear in the night, try some hot tea when you sit (or stand) to read. Do not one of the strong black tea, try something more gentle like green tea. If you can hear in the south, be sure to erase all drinks TidBITS left on Big Macs in your throat, some hot green tea, and try not to strain your voice in the first part of the day. If someone there there own list of elixirs for the throat please share them here. I'll post them on my site.

When I was the radio, I worked a split shift where I was standing at the door at 3.30am and did not return until 10:30. Then I had to turn around and leave at 1:30 pm and not return home until 8:30 at night. I was always tired, my auditions suffered, and overall I felt I was losing touch with the VO .. biz Solution: Leave the radio .. That's what I did. I've never looked back.

Radio is not what it was. I do not think it will always be the same since the stripping of Janet Jackson.There will not be Howard Stern, not more freedom to charge to the mouth as long as you do not curse. Everything will die in a mere fraction of what it was. I had even more incentive to leave the ship when I received a letter from my company (large company-wide Big) who said Congress and the Congress or Jr. (FCC) had adopted an "emergency bill" which actually said that if I just Ol 'me, as uttered something considered as indecent that I could be fined $ 14,000 or an amount of money absurd. The company I work stated in the letter that I immediately start in front of the bus where such a situation has occurred. Which is all I needed. I did not even clean my pod, I just split. Left my posters on the wall and pictures of my family on the console .. I went .. I not need this bad, and the radio was not what I got to the radio. I went into the radio for voice over work.

I will not call it a big mistake, because there were many advantages to working quarter of the air for some time. You contact with many different technologies and you spend much time on learning for micro really comfortable with her being around. After a while, it becomes kind of your friend, you keep it fed, talk …. Ok .. This is weird .. What I am saying is that There was nothing wrong with the experiment. It's just that it is very rare experience to apply the radio voice work independent when it comes to getting any. Yes, your opportunity to express things for the local car dealership or hairdresser will come. These opportunities do not come because you are on the station. Exit the station and see if one of these clients that you call when you're not with it affiliates.

There are guys who have been on my hometown station for over twenty years and I think I've heard in maybe 20 points each. And that is generous. I'm sure there are many people out there ready to make their days in radio began their careers VO. Let me save them .. Save-the minute. Keep it to yourself. The last thing I or someone else will benefit from someone to come by chatter on and on their success. If you are a talent and hard work you think you owe it to the radio, good for you .. Your anecdotes are welcome if it is clear that someone can benefit.

So, you say: "Hey Mike, you're being a little harsh radio guys are not you? "Well, yes … I am. Just as your parents told you not to touch the stove or in playing with matches was dangerous, I'm keep thinking of the potential VO that radio is the way to go to become a guy voice. Because it is not. Let me make this clear delineation. If you want to be radio, going to a school release. I commend the Connecticut Schools of Broadcasting, because that is where I am and when I graduated, I sent 2 emails and got hired 45 minutes after posting. If you want to be a voice guy or girl, do not go to the radio. Opt not in school broadcasting, and one more thing … Do not go to the radio .. They are two different entities and should be treated as such. If you do subscribe to the broadcasting school, you spend as much as you want to try to break into the voice over. In this case the two are alike. From that moment they each took very different roads.

Then you say "Hey Mike, (if you have not already asked me some things now) you do not think you alienate people who are on radio and discourage them to know more about voice over? "I wanted to come to that.

If you're on the radio, and you think you want to get in VO as a freelancer, do not give up hope just because of me. I am sure at some point you are told: "Hey, you have a beautiful voice, you should be on the radio." to which you said, as you closer to the SLID and ordered the little lady a drink, "Yes, I would .. and I am .. "That right there is a radio guy. A voice talent said: "Thank you, I'm glad you noticed. I've done business voice for four years now. "" You might have heard me in the Betty Florist business held last month on 26 cable channel. "(And is scheduled to last another 10,000 years.) Which she nods "uh-huh" and then he starts talking to him about all the other work he has done for them to sign the uh-huh. Then he ran to the car to procure him a copy of his demo. When he returns to furnish upon request and if the company she works for hires of votes, he is squatting on his bar stool, watching as she sips her glass bought by whom? The radio guys.

This story I admit is a beautification absolute, but not too far from being a talented young desperate voice could act when confronted with a new track. It is also similar to the way a man or a young girl aspiring radio can act if they wanted to get into radio and they have just met someone who worked at the local station. It would not even matter if all the guys were not mop the floors, the thought would cross their minds. The feeling is the same, the desire and emotion to succeed in one or the other is the same, although the roads we must take is to be completely different. The radio is very "learn on the job. "You will receive a check while you learn the ropes, even if a check is very thin, you'll get paid while you learn.

When you start trying to make a vocal work, you pay as you learn. You will pay much … and you can pay in many ways more than one. A few hours on the Internet should prove to you that there is no shortage of people with their hands, offering help for a price. I am one of them. You're best advised to take very careful when it comes to putting something in one of these hands. People who want to act, or does the voice are very desperate when they are hungry. There are many people in the land "Internet" and elsewhere in waiting their prey to despair. undernourished people do a lot if they think this leads to food, or whatever it takes to satisfy the palette this kind of thing. A lot of talent will suffer along the way and end up with nothing. Will it be their fault or the fault of the people who offered to help? More often than not, the nature of people when they are not to blame others around them. It takes a bit of character for someone to turn the lens inward and see how they could have contributed to their own demise. When it comes to who is in default for failing voice talent is a mixture the teacher and student on many levels.

What a student has to do in each case is to hold their market share by practicing and following the instructions. When the coach of the other seems to be the one that failed. The coach must sit and wonder why he never had a student first. Sorry if I "break Star Warsian" here, but Obi-Wan tried to teach Anakin the ways of the force of its own without the help of Yoda. It was not his pupil Anakin turned to the dark side. Although Obi-Wan has Anakin not, you still end up liking Obi-Wan at the end of the film and thought it was a good man. This is Hollywood, now back to reality.

There is no voice over Yoda and the only strength is the strength that you want to use on the person who took your money when you realize that you do not get a job and you stink. When your coach or do whatever you give your money to you lack in the real world, you do not like him and you are certainly not going to believe it is a good man. Most of the time, it is the student who persuades itself or that the person has failed because they failed in their business. What the student fails to realize as many times, that they have taken precautions little when handing their money to someone who was "doing a vocal talent. "

So many times I had potential talents come to the door, wanting to do for them, i will make a vocal talent. I try my best during the assessment to frighten them. I tell them how it will be difficult. I tell them how it will be expensive. I tell them how long take it. I told them that even with training there is no guarantee they will be hired. I even said they would Talent probably never be able to work in the commercial market, and not to telephone systems and cable spots for the rest of their lives. They wanted to go forward. They toss their money on the table and say, 'OK, do you think you guys can give me a voice? "No matter how I tried, they just did not. At this time no coach should never take a student. Because are doomed to failure, and will start the car and spend the rest of their lives to do nothing except speak ill of them. You can not be made in this case. You need to go.

The young talent, they come from radio or Radio Shack, are best advised to seek and collect all information they can patiently, and not jump into anything right away. Make the healthiest decisions you can based on the information you are able to gather after a grueling search. Each talent has never entered my studio with stars in their eyes must have heard me say the same things you read here.

Many people would have you charged for this kind of advice. I put a lot of information there for people free for two reasons: 1. While the potential of EV have more arrows in their quiver, they step in research to learn to "do the voodoo we do well. "(Thanks Harvey Korman and Mel Brooks) 2. So anyone who expects to pay a studio or a piece of silver producer demo can reflect on my studio provides information and decide for themselves who to trust.

Take a tour .. Caveat emptor .. Go with your gut in everything you do .. I am sure you will reach your own conclusions. I just hope they are good. Have doubts – Just ask. I was also frank. I am no longer private.

As a side note, while I was writing this, a hearing came from a major national advertiser. When I was in the 70 some people had already auditioned for the position. He was easily one of those where you say "Oh, there's no way I get this. Look at how many people sent in.. "What crossed my mind. I almost deleted and moved on. But I went ahead and did it anyway.The next day they contacted me and said that there were people who "are kind of that" but I hit "spot on". I had concert, recorded in the field and was paid twice my talent fee because I do work in my studio and they were so happy with this result. I a week later discovered that clients were blown away by reading. I'm not Tooting my parish here. This really happened. The location http://www.michaelminetree.com is on my site under different readings. This is the first. Just goes to show you what a little practice, belief in your capabilities, and an effort will be made for you in this business. Have a very happy new year to all. I'll see you on the air.

As always, if you have any questions, please …. Michael Minetree

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