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Workshop planned for Ottawa with Harlan Hogan.....By Rick
Gordon |
| Something different this
month from the Talent Coordinator Talent.........By Dyana
Daniels |
| Producer's Corner ..........Web
site statistics...........wazz dat?..........By Bruce Valeriani |
| Audio File Fun....By
Peter Drew |
| Home
Studio...determine your needs........By Edge
Studio |
| The Funnies........From
various sources's |
| Are
Independent Voiceover Artists Reaping All the Benefits of Technology?...By
Doc Phillips |
| Web site
Tips...............from Glen McInnis |
Got
Skype? ...........Contact RickGordon1021...........9
- 5 EST please (testing) |
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CV
Workshop in Ottawa with H2...by
Rick Gordon
It's been in
the planning stage for quite a while and now our very first CV
Workshop and Seminar is scheduled for the weekend of May
6th at Raven
Street Studios with my friend Harlan
Hogan and others TBA.
This 3 day workshop, the first ever in Ottawa, is designed to introduce
the VO business to those considering making it a career. We will
help participants decide for themselves whether to indulge or not,
while learning the "must have's" in order to succeed.
Much more information will be published next month but in the meantime
you are invited to listen to an "off the cuff" chat with
Harlan Hogan and Rick Gordon about
Workshops, Harlan's new DVD, newbies and a clever scam here.
On another note make
sure you check out our Producer's Corner. Bruce
has some great new info on stats and a very comprehensive approach
to understanding the numbers. He knows his stuff!
Just a little perk for
CV members that you won't get anywhere else.
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Meet
the Clients
A few years back
our company made a movie, for fun, to show at our local Greenville
Ad Club ADDY Awards dinner. It has since been shown several more
times at other ADDY events in cities around the Southeast. I thought
readers of this newsletter would get a kick out of it.
It's called "Meet the Clients" and it's a parody of the
movie "Meet the Parents". This movie was written, shot
and edited by our staff at Williamson Evans Words, Music & Moving
Pictures.
I hope you enjoy it.
.....Movie
Dyana
Daniels
Talent/Engineer/Talent Coordinator
Williamson Evans Words, Music & Moving Pictures
Greenville, SC
WilliamsonEvans.com
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Harlan
Hogan's latest book "Voice Actor's Guide to
Home Recording" along with his new DVD "Voice-Over
Success" is now available at Harlan
Hogan.com |
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Producer's
Corner.
Stats
In the last couple of months, we started discussing
website stats. I described what web stats actually are and showed
you how you can see your stats on the CommercialVoices.com site.
This month I'll go over those numbers in even greater detail.
Recall that you can bring up the page for your CommercialVoices.com
stats by using the URL - "http://commercialvoices.com/platinum/MYPAGE/stats.php"
- where you replace MYPAGE with your CommercialVoices.com username.....more
Bruce
Valeriani
owns and operates Blue
Bear Sound in Ottawa, Canada, accommodating all your
recording needs - whether it's audio, video, and/or multimedia.
For more information on recording, check out the Articles
page on the studio web site.. or for professional production
of your demo at extremely reasonable Canadian prices,
contact Bruce at 613-822-0726 or by email at info@bluebearsound.com.
Blue Bear Sound Recording Studios "Putting
the sound back into recording!"
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Audio
File Fun
by Peter Drew
An anonymous poem circulated on the Web, set to music....More
| Peter
Drew,
a card-carrying member of the Commercial Voices cadre, provides
voice overs for all electronic media. Have a comment about this
article? Please visit Peter
Drew Voiceovers and drop him a line via email. While you're
there, check out Peter's demos and additional articles on the
voice-over business. |
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HOME
STUDIO ... DETERMINE YOUR NEEDS.....by
Edge Studio
Many voice talent don't realize the importance of planning
when it comes to their home-studio. Subsequently, they either
spend more money and time than necessary, and/or find themselves
unable to please their clients.
This article aims at eliminating these misfortunes.
.......More
| Look for
more upcoming great articles on VO from our friends at Edge
Studio who have kindly given us permission. Since 1988,
voice over production, training, and casting has been Edge
Studio's exclusive focus. |
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The
Funnies
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Are
Independent Voiceover Artists Reaping All the Benefits of Technology?.
by Doc Phillips
It's already difficult enough just to learn the business of the voiceover
industry, let alone attempting to keep up with the ever-evolving technological
aspects. But, I assure you, it's a must for those of us making a living
with our voices. Hardware is in a perpetual state of flux
with companies competing with each other. While these companies
certainly have their board of directors firmly embedded in their
creative process, some are or already have developed some of the
neatest new tools ever. What I mean by this is that, of course,
bottom line and profits are the impetus of the suits involved. But,
the creative types truly want to assist the voiceover artist or
producer in providing the latest, greatest technology in an effort
to make our jobs easier and more convenient.
.....More
| Doc
Phillips has been providing voice work in one way or
another for 30 years. He is also an internet entrepreneur who
hosts and manages several sites. He built, maintains and "markets"
his website, DocPhillips.com
and is a Gold member on CommercialVoices.com |
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Web
site Tips
What is RSS?
RSS or Really Simple Syndication is web feed format, specified in
XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things)
news websites, weblogs and podcasting.
Web feeds are widely used by the weblog community to share the latest
entries' headlines or their full text, and even attached multimedia
files. Since mid-2000, use of RSS has spread to many of the major
news organizations, including Reuters, CNN, PR Newswire, and the BBC.
These providers allow other websites to incorporate their "syndicated"
headline or headline-and-short-summary feeds under various usage agreements.
RSS is now used for many purposes, including marketing, bug-reports,
or any other activity involving periodic updates or publications.
Many corporations are turning to RSS for delivery of their news, replacing
email and fax distribution.
A program known as a feed reader or aggregator can check a list of
feeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that it
finds. It is common to find web feeds on major websites and many smaller
ones. Some websites let people choose between RSS or Atom formatted
web feeds; others offer only RSS or only Atom.
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provided by Crystal Bay Media
Do you have a topic you would like to see addressed in the monthly
tip? Email your question or idea to info@crystalbaymedia.com
www.crystalbaymedia.com
Email Glen: Glen
McInnis |
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