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Blog Love from Mama VO I’d like to introduce you to a part of your body that’s as equally as important as your voice. What on earth could be equally important!? I am a voice actor! Clearly, it's all about my voice! Mmm-hmm. I’d like to introduce you to your ears....
Joy’s Talent Spotlight: McKenna Roberts
Hello, my awesomely amazing fellow voicers!! Yes, I may seem to be extra happy this episode and I have good reason to be so…. I just feel very fortunate to have found TVAS. Knowing Mama VO, all our coaches and all of you has brought such joy to my life! And now I’m...
Jacked Up: Jack’s Tips for Organizing and Archiving
At some point in your voiceover journey, you’re going to start auditioning and booking jobs. You’ll be producing audio files—remember to record, edit, and process in .wav or .aiff formats—not in mp3—you may deliver an mp3 to the client, but your work is in one of the...
Inspiration Corner: Be Your Own “Change Agent”
In the corporate world, a change agent is a person from inside or outside the organization who helps an organization transform itself by focusing on such matters as organizational effectiveness, improvement, and development. The voice over business, my voice over...
Jacked Up: Handling Copy
Copy can come in a variety of forms. Sometimes it’s buried in an email from an agent. Sometimes a pay-to-play site makes you copy the copy with your mouse and then paste into something useful on your computer. And then there’s long stuff, like elearning or video...
Joy’s Talent Spotlight: Joy Kingston!
Hello voicers! I had the pleasure of sitting down with our very own TVAS Newsletter interviewer, Joy Kingston! When Joy retired from a rewarding accounting career; she knew she wanted to do something artistic. She had been a painter and songwriter years ago, so when...
Moats-ivation
Hey Voicers, I’m feeling inspired, and I thought I'd share. Ya know what 18 years in as a voice over actor feels like? It's a blend of happiness, gratitude, accomplishment, and yet still always feels like I'm just getting warmed up. I love this business. I can't get...
Joy’s Talent Spotlight: Sandra Segrest
Hello fellow voicers! In this segment, I am thrilled to introduce you to one classy lady and voice talent, Sandra Segrest. Sandra had been working for over twelve years at the Chicago Tribune in advertising sales when the 2008 recession hit her hard along with so...
Jacked Up: Taking Classes
There’s plenty of opportunity at the Voice Actors Studio to take “ongoing” classes. They’re how many times a week—twice? You can fill your dance card each month. And it’s good experience. Time in the saddle, time on the mic, time listening to others make choices...
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