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Tech. Tips
Many VO jobs are cast these days through on-line casting sites such as Voice123 and Voices.com. Plus, most talent agents and casting directors request auditions by email. It is essential that actors have a home studio! Additionally, you need to know how to bid jobs based on your voice plus recording and editing time.
Harlan Hogan's excellent book, Voice Actor's Guide to Recording at Home and On the Road, demystifies the process of setting up your own home studio. Now, you can get up and running with a microphone, audio software, and sound dampening materials for as little as one or two hundred bucks. And you won't need a degree in Electronics to do it. It really is pretty simple and straightforward these days.
Once you're in business technically, you need to know how to bid jobs. Voices.com has great advice on this and hundreds of other topics here. A guest membership is free and gives users access to all the online tutorials, podcasts by industry experts and blogs. In fact, check out Elaine's two podcasts.
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Look Who's Talking
 · Mike Santos moved to Denver and was signed by Donna Baldwin Talent.· Jeannie Cuan recorded her first VO job - a how-to for for Neurosky.com
· Bill Bump recorded on-hold messages for Alpine Foods and Sea Watch International.
· Pete McKean recorded voices for custom/personalized GPS devices.
· Greg Land booked his first SAG job, a TV commercial for Cost Plus!
· Deborah May voiced corporate videos for two companies and recorded a voice mail for Point Impact Analysis. She was also cast in a reality TV show that will be shot in San Francisco later this summer!
· Erica Gerard recorded the VO for a promotional video for Community Based Care of Seminole.
· Be sure and watch Tom Chantler in Trauma, the new NBC show currently filming in San Francisco.
· Vonya Morris used her Teleprompter skills in an industrial for Reclast.
· Shannon Riley recorded a a radio spot for ShoreTel with the CIO of the San Francisco Giants.
Congratulations to all students who have booked jobs recently. Send us your success stories!
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