Can You Take The Stress?
Starting a business is one of the most stressful things you can do. It will affect you mentally, physically and emotionally. You need to be strong to deal with this kind of stress, and you need to have someone to turn to for support. Are You a Survivor? There are some people who always seem to make it in the end, regardless of what life throws at them. You need to be the kind of person whose response to things going wrong is to work harder and get it fixed, not someone who cries and goes into
Thankful For Family
What a month this has been. One sister has a car accident, another has a seizure and yours truly is taken to the ER for shortness of breath. We are all okay and these incidents have only made our family stronger and closer. This is the time to slow down and appreciate everything that presents itself. You can't predict what will happen from day to day. Take a deep breath, smell the flowers, and do something wonderful for someone. Have a great Sunday! Terry Daniel
Vocal Health #10: It’s A Wrap – Avoiding Issues Will Hurt You In The Long Run, by Bettye Zoller
“You’re a vocal athlete,” so treat your throat and voice well, says international voice talent and coach Bettye Zoller, in this final installment of her VoiceOverXtra podcast series on Vocal Health. Summarizing what has been detailed in earlier episodes, Zoller reviews the requirements for maintaining a healthy voice …
An Event You Don’t Want to Miss…
Sorry to regurgitate news, but I thought this important. There is going to be a fundraiser for the Don LaFontaine Voice-over Lab, presented by the Screen ActorsGuild (SAG) Foundation. The fundraiser will be at the home of Joe Cipriano, on Wednesday, September 2, 2009. Tickets are $150 per person, and the event is limited to 200 people. Be sure to get your ticket NOW if you are going to attend. Joe Cipriano has been quoted saying, “The Don LaFontaine Voice Over
congratulations pat!
A nice surprise today in the mail when I got my invitation to Buffalo Broadcasters Association’s 13th Annual Hall of Fame Awards Celebration on September 22nd. A long time Western New York voice talent and former KB Radio jock and production director Pat Feldballe is one of this year’s inductees. I can’t say for sure but I think this is the hall’s first inductee whose primary career has been as a voice talent. Pat’s always been a very nice fellow and if you’ve every seen a
can i ask your opinion please?
We’ll be doing some very minor redecorating of this blog (we’re going to widen it a little bit) but this will require that we change the size of the title banner. So it occurred to me that maybe I should take this time to freshen the look for the title banner which was designed by me though I’ve never really been happy with all of it (some of it I like). So I asked Ann Hackett of aHa Designs to craft some alternate versions of a new banner. This is where YOU come
Vocal Health podcasts
Bettye Zoller has done a series of podcasts on vocal health. Number 10 has just been posed at VoiceOverXtra. Links to the previous 9 entries are on that page as well.
8/20/09 – Demos: Dead On Arrival? Liven Up Yours & Record With Masters, Sept. 12 in LA
Star voice performer and coach Pat Fraley presents the DEMO WORLD MASTERS EVENT, Sept. 12 in Los Angeles – where just 12 participants will learn how to save money on demos and be trained and recorded by Fraley and top pros Todd Resnick and Kent McCaman …
Newcomer: Tips For Getting Your First Voice-Over Job & Beyond, by Heather Costa
Heather Costa, national voice talent and voice-over coach, works with newcomers who ask, “How do I build my resume when I’m just starting out?” Start with people you know, she advises – along with other tips for career success, like figuring what to charge …
Skype TV ad banned by ASA
The Advertising Standards Authority banned a television advert for an internet phone company for misleading consumers over the picture and audio quality of making a video call. Skype’s TV campaign featured a new father using the online service with a webcam so he could show his parents his baby. The Advertising Standards Authority upheld five complaints that the advert exaggerated the picture and sound quality that the Skype service actually provided. The advert, by the Albion agency, was