How People React to Male vs. Female Voiceovers
– By: Mark Dolliver The results of an AdweekMedia/Harris Poll, conducted last month, give reason to believe gender stereotypes are alive and well in the way many people react to male and female voiceovers in commercials. On the question of which sort is “more forceful,” 48 percent of respondents said a male voiceover is, vs. 2 percent saying a female voiceover is. (The rest said it makes no difference.) The pattern was just the opposite when people were asked to say which
gina tuttle nails the announcer gig for oscar 2010
Female Voice Talent Gina Tuttle I don’t know if you caught the 2010 Oscars last night. I did and I thought it was a pretty good show. I thought it was VERY interesting at the end for best picture how Tom Hanks seemed to walk on stage and just read the winner’s name without any recognition of the 10 nominees (yes they did little BP vignette’s throughout the telecast). But it just seemed like he got told “go out, read the winner and get
welcome rare earth interactive to the blogosphere
Yes, I had a blog before my web designers had a blog. They helped me design it, upload it and maintain it. They thought it was really swell. And then they sat for about a hundred years on the blogosphere sidelines. Oy! Well, they were busy doing a ton of highly successful web projects for big name companies in the meantime, so I kinda understand the delay. But only kinda. You can lead web geeks to water but you cannot make them drink the blog kool-aid…initially.
Hillary Huber Can Help YOU Break Into…
From Break Into Voiceover comes this: Break Into Audiobooks with Special Guest Hillary Huber! Our Break Into Animation Part 1 Teleseminar was such a hit, we’re at it again–but this time with Audiobook Superstar Hillary Huber!Join us for Break Into Audiobooks on Wed March 31, 2010 – 6 pm PST/ 9 pm EST. With us, our special guest and audiobook veteran Hillary Huber gives thorough, no-BS insider answers to all of your audiobook
Keeping "House" with Demos
Part of my game plan this year is to make it a point of updating my demos annually. This is somewhat of a large undertaking because I have a number of them. Some efforts I’ll defer to voice coaches, consultants and experts to assist me with, (commercial demo) while others are easy to update on my own.This past weekend I completed two that were in need of an overhaul: It’s really fun and creative to add and mix more recent work, and hear all ther newer
3500 Free Sample Voice Over Scripts for Practice and Demos
edge studioEdge Studios in New York recently updated their website and they contacted me to let me know that the page for their valuable resource page of 3500 Free Sample Voice Over Scripts has changed. And wow, it has.You’ll find practice scripts in a myriad of genres you can use to print take to voice coaching sessions and workout groups. NOW THERE’S NEVER AN EXCUSE NOT TO PRACTICE Unlimited, free access to over 3,500 ADULT, KIDS, & SPANISH voice over practice and demo
Doug in Wonderland
My friend Doug Medlock provides the voice for this new movie trailer. Aliens In Wonderland Trailer from Juicy Concrete on Vimeo. My thanks to my manager and friend Stacey Stahl for emailing me the link.
Killer Follow Through
My friend Blaine Parker is not only a mighty fine voice actor, he’s a marketing genius. Same is true of his wife Honey Parker. Between them they make Park City, Utah one seriously bright spot in the marketing universe. Blaine publishes a weekly electronic piece called HOT POINTS that I’ve quoted a number of times here. Today I just had to go back to this well again. Enjoy. ————————————– HOT
Twitter updates from Karen for the week preceeding Mon Mar 8, 2010
“The more you practice, the more you do, the better you get.” — voice actor Michael Wollner in News Sun story: http://tinyurl.com/y95pvbb Recd 2 calls in 2 days from people in other states wanting to rent my #voiceover studio to record someone else. Wondering if it’s a new scam NYT article about audiobook narrators and library studio of @nyplheiskell, part of New York Public Library: http://tinyurl.com/ye4fhyp Follow me on Twitter
Success Habits Roundup!
Venice Veg-Fruit Market I came across a great article by Barbara Winter that’s loaded with useful, inspiring tips. As a voiceover artist, I consider myself a bit of an entrepreneur in my ongoing quest to find & open myself to opportunities where I can be useful and of service with my voice, for financial compensation. Actually, anyone — in any field — can find gems in this article. FOUR SUCCESS HABITS OF JOYFULLY JOBLESS ACTIVISTS “There was an audible gasp in