A voice talent agent shares observations, ruminations and occasional frustrations about the voice-over industry in Canada.
Edge Studios in New York has asked me to be their guest tonight for their ongoing series, Talk With A Pro. Apparently, I’m the “pro” :)-
I’ll be taking questions about being a voice agent and the voice over industry in general from people all over North America tonight from 9-10 pm EST.
Details here: www.edgestudio.com/workshop-talk-with-a-pro.htm
The voice-over webisphere is all abuzz because a new online casting site - voicejockeys.com - is offering $55 a spot to voice talents and will take 50% (!) commission on that already lucrative fee. The site works like many others out there in that talents “pay to play”. That is, it’s free for producers to [...]
Surely you’ve heard about D.C. Douglas, the L.A.-based voice talent who voices Geico commercials, being dropped from their spots because he left an angry voicemail message with a group that organizes tea party events? For that story, go here:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/04/21/geico-voice-over-actor-fired-after-calling-tea-party-group-mentally-retarded/#ixzz0lqLf6Et9
Well, now Douglas has fired back - not at Geico but at the Tea Partiers. Here is [...]
A friend passes this along:
CBS program “Sunday Morning” (Sunday, April 11, 9-10_30 a.m.) they are doing:
“Television maybe a visual medium, but it’s not only what is seen that resonates with viewers, but what is heard. Listen carefully to TV commercials and chances are you will hear familiar voices like those of Oscar winners, Jeff Bridges [...]
Roger King is the President of PN Agency which provides voice-over talent to the radio, television, film, multi-media and animation industries. In 2004, he launched a sister agency, Ethnic Voice Talent (EVT), and now represents over 100 voice over talents & translators in more than 15 different languages.
