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Voice Voice-Over
Media Skills
Voice-Over & Broadcasting
Table of Contents
- Voice Over-General
- How to put your money where your mouth is
- Accents-American
- Accents & Dialects
- Commercials & techniques
- Voice Over Tales and Biographies
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Voice Voice-Over
Media Skills
Voice Over -General
Making Money in
Voice-Overs : Winning... |
From Rugrats to Big Macs, voice-over careers are the best
kept and highest paying secrets in the world. Most voice-over sessions
last only ten minutes to an hour. Teri Apple's book helps the actor, radio
DJ, vocal impressionist and amateur cartoon voice succeed in voice-overs,
no matter where you... |
So You Want To Be A Voice-Over Star
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So You Want To Be A Voice-over Star is
an introspective look into the voice-over industry written by a national
voice talent, Sandy Thomas, the National Voice of MSNBC. Sandy is a highly
respected voice talent that can also be heard on ESPN & ESPN2, HBO,
VH1, MTV, A&E and more including Local Radio & TV stations and
National and Regional Commercials all across America.
Youll have all your questions answered likeHOW DO I GET INTO
VOICE-OVERS? WHERE DO I TRAIN FOR THIS FIELD? HOW DO I GET
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Put your money where your mouth is
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Put Your Mouth Where the Money Is :
How...
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Sunny Quinn, radio and television personality and voiceover
talent, recently authored Put Your Mouth Where The Money Is, a voiceover
training program. It comes with three audiocassettes and takes you
step-by-step through the process of creating and building your own
freelance commercial voiceover |
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There's Money Where Your Mouth Is:
An...
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Aimed at seasoned actors as well as vocal talents who lack
show-biz experience, this career manual offers the most complete guide to
a lucrative field.
Voices are increasingly in demand for commercials, cartoon characters,
announcements, and other voice-over spots. This outstanding handbook
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Word of Mouth : A Guide to
Commercial...
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Here in Los Angeles the streets are lined with people who can "read
copy," but the choice voiceover assignments go to the select few who
add something more to the work - believability, personality, and a strong
one-on-one connection with the audience. "A camera does not
lie," say the authors, "and neither does a microphone."
That's why this book is so valuable. Although trying to teach voiceover
skills through a book is inherently challenging -- sort of like trying to
teach driving, or violin-playing, that way -- this book is the most
successful one I am aware of. It is without doubt the best single resource
on voiceover work in print today.- Geoffrey L Bryan.
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Voiceovers: Putting Your Mouth Where
The...
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There's relatively little information available on this form of making
money, so Douthitt's title is especially valuable to any who have heard
about voice-over potentials. Tom Wiecks edits a fine guide which covers
not only money-making potentials, but the mechanics of how voice-over
operates. -Midwest Book Review |
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Accents-American
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The American Accent Guide: A complete...
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This guide to american accent is simply amazing. I had previously tried
different methods to improve my pronunciation but none of them worked.
This book contains the essential information that is needed in order to
understand all the facts of the american english pronunciation and
intonation. Very simple, very easy to work with. I strongly recommend it!-Ana
Presedo Rodriguez
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American Dialects : A Manual for
Actors,..
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This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion
volume to Foreign Dialects-- American Dialects offers representative
dialects of every major section of the United States. In each case, a
general description and history of the dialect is given, followed by an
analysis of vowel... |
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Accents and Dialects
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Foreign Dialects : A Manual for
Actors,...
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Most actors and directors have struggled with the problem of needing to
imitate foreign dialects. Marguerite and Lewis Herman have created an
essential tool for actors, directors and writers aiming toward the most
authentic performances possible. Foreign Dialects contains an extensive
repertoire of... |
Accents : A Manual for Actors
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Wow, when I went looking for a book to help me learn how to do accents I
had no idea I'd find this. It seems to cover just about every American
accent you could want. The CD that is included with it is invaluable.
Within just a few days I was speaking like an English Gentleman. I have
been trying to get that accent down for years. I work in a popular cafe
here in Hollywood. We get many customers from London. I can even fool
them. They ask me what part I'm from. They are amazed when I turn the
accent off. Then, just for kicks, I'll start talking like I'm from
Kentucky or the Bronx. This book is great for everyone who wants to add
spice to their personalities, not just actors. Did I mention I get more
dates when I use the accents I learned from this book?-Guy D Wells
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Commercials and Technique
How to Read Copy : Professionals Guide...
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This book covers all essentials for any voice-over artist to
know before getting into the business of actually reading copy for a
variety of voice over needs. Must for every multimedia producer's library.
-reader India |
Breaking into Commercials : The
Complete...
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The wisdom of a veteran casting director and the viewpoint of a
photographer-writer mix well to give newcomers to commercial acting all
the how-tos, tips, and references to break in. After all, the reasoning
goes, more than 60,000 commercial roles are cast each year, so why not get
in on it?-Booklist |
Creating Powerful Radio
The Powerful Radio Workbook
YOU WILL LEARN:
* How to make an aircheck session productive and still
keep the respect of your talent.
* To find and identify winning talent
* To take a slow news day and still build exciting
programming around it
* What top programmers say about getting results with
airchecking
* Successful tips for improving the news, by making the
most of your news talent
*Improving an average voice and how to move up the
ladder
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If you've ever spent a Monday morning, desperately going
through last Thursday's paper for stories and topics, Creating Powerful
Radio has ideas you'll use.
Valerie Geller's first book has sold thousands of copies worldwide.
It delivers the method to take a boring story and make it meaningful and
riveting to an audience. Geller says, "It's easy to do news when
there's a lot going on, but it's a challenge on those dull days. That's
the real work of the job and where creativity comes in."
You'll discover how to take a complex or difficult story and break it
down in ways your audience can quickly understand. In a sound bite world,
this book will help you get the best out of your sound bites in the
shortest period of time. The goal: maintain journalistic integrity, inform
entertainingly and keep audiences glued to their radios and TVs.
Creating Powerful Radio shows how to:
Make it relevant. Make it matter. Tell the truth and never be boring!
With sections by newswriting guru Mervin Block, along with tips and
techniques from some of the top broadcast journalists on air today, (award
winning reporters from CBS News, 1010 WINS in New York, KGO and KCBS radio
and KPIX-TV in San Francisco, and KFWB/Los Angeles, are among the
contributors).
Valerie Geller's Creating Powerful Radio shows you how to:
- Speak in terms the listener can picture
- Find your best material
- Tell the truth
- Never be boring
- Be who you are on the radio
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Voice-Over Tales and Biographies
Vo : Tales and Techniques of
a...
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One of the country’s top voice-over
talents shares his secrets to success in this insider’s guide to the
voice-over industry! Not only does veteran actor Harlan Hogan offer a
fascinating personal account of the crazed clients, practical jokes, and
amazing coincidences encountered during his 25-year career . . . he also
provides a wealth of tested tips for surviving and thriving as a
voice-over actor! This indispensable guide features dozens of techniques
to help readers train their voices, gain experience, make a demo, join
unions, get an agent, and more. It also includes strategies for finding
work in venues outside film and television, including games, automated
telephone systems, and even websites. Actors, broadcasters, and anyone
else who longs to make money speaking into a microphone will cherish this
informative, insightful, and often hilarious glimpse at the business-book
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Invisible Storytellers :
Voice-Over...
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"Let me
tell you a story," each film seems to offer silently as its opening
frames hit the screen. But sometimes the film finds a voicean off- screen
narratorfor all or part of the story. From Wuthering Heights and Double
Indemnity to Annie Hall and Platoon, voice-over narration has been an
integral part of American movies. Through examples from films such as How
Green Was My Valley, All About Eve, The Naked City, and Barry Lyndon,
Sarah Kozloff examines and analyzes voice-over narration. She refutes the
assumptions that words should only play a minimal role in film, that
"showing" is superior to "telling," or that the
technique is inescapably authoritarian (the "voice of god"). She
questions the common conception that voice-over is a literary technique by
tracing its origins in the silent era and by highlighting the influence of
radio, documentaries, and television. She explores how first-person or
third-person narration really affects a film, in terms of genre
conventions, viewer identification, time and nostalgia, subjectivity, and
reliability. In conclusion she argues that voice- over increases film's
potential for intimacy and sophisticated irony.-
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The Voice Actors Guide to Home recording |
"The Voice Actor's Guide to
Home Recording" shows both aspiring and established voiceover actors how to
set up and effectively use their own inexpensive?but professional-sounding?personal
recording studio. Today's voiceover actors are increasingly producing voice
tracks for corporate narration, radio spots, animation, games, and other
dialogue projects from their own home studios. To survive in this highly
competitive field, you need to learn and master basic production techniques.
Authors Jeffrey P. Fisher and Harlan Hogan show you how to use a personal
computer, reasonably-priced home-studio equipment, and the Internet to make
professional-quality home recordings quickly and easily.
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