Career Development

Freelance Folder (@FreelanceFolder) is a resource every freelancer should be following regardless of your area of expertise. A new article about rate setting is a great example: should you lower your rates in order to get more business? The topic of rates is always a hot one for voice actors, so as always, that depends. But you must be careful about setting rates so low that you can fall into a couple of traps. Read this article and let me know what you think.
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I’m pretty sure that I have a rather pollyanna-ish view about getting into the voiceover field. I encourage people to look into it, but with open eyes: no one becomes Don LaFontaine, Nolan north, or Bob Souer overnight. It’s going to take time and effort. But if you have skills, there is work out there. Stephanie Ciccarellli has a post up on Voices.com about the relative abundance of work out there. Again, it’s not always going to be an earth shattering worldwide influencer….but it is work that will get you on your way to the next thing.See it on Scoop.it, via voiceover and voice acting

Kat Keesling has been on fire the last few weeks, with great stuff about e-learning for kids, working your own back yard, and now this: the bane of every voice actor’s existence, mouth noise.

Casting director Laurie Records (@laurierecords) writes this great post about placing blame for a bad read. That is, don’t do it. At least not in the room aloud. Go check it out, and make sure you are not falling into any of these habits.

Sirenetta Leoni, a fellow Scoop.it user and voice talent, found this absolutely spot on article speaking to every performer’s greatest enemy; self sabotage. There are more than enough ways to be told “you can’t do it.” Your biggest job is often to mitigate these messages with positive believe that, in fact, hell YEAH you can. Thanks to Sirenetta for finding this, and to Wendy Braun from my homeland of Chicago for putting up this very important message for any performer. Go. Read. And get your head up!
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There is no doubt that tenseness in the body, wheter in the fac, head or neck, or in the torso, has an effect on the voice. Singers know this, and other people who depend on their voice for their living should too. Dr. Ann Utterback writes about the effect tenseness hass on teh voice, and how to avoid, or at least minimize, those effects.