An Emmy Award-winning sound designer, recording engineer, and producer with extensive credits on IMDB, he talks about working on numerous Woody Allen films, as well as his experiences with the likes of Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn, and Christopher Plummer, among others. He will be a speaker at next month’s “VO Atlanta” event and gives advice to those pursuing voice-over work. Since he is also a SAG-AFTRA approved audio book producer, he touches a bit on that media as well.
“A package showed up one day with the Emmy in there. So, not that I didn’t deserve it or earn it or work for it, but it was a total surprise.”
“If you wanna go all the way back to my very first feature film then I imagine I’m an Academy Award-winning recording engineer because my first feature film, although uncredited, was ‘Kramer vs. Kramer.’”
“A smile is like the biggest tool that a voiceover person can be using. And it’s hard to get people to smile and read at the same time. It takes a lot of practice. So, it’s not just reading, and anybody in the business will tell ya’ that… And also, ya’ kinda need to have a passion for this.”
“Find a good producer who maybe has done a lot of independent artists and listen to the demos that they do. Make sure you like the sound quality.”
“Don’t go in with a big ego, because none of us, we really don’t want to see that. We don’t want you to be a wimp or anything, but be open-minded to suggestions that the producer is gonna have.”
“A lot of people start their voiceover career in audiobooks. It doesn’t pay a lot of money. It takes a long time to make an audiobook. Anybody trying to think that voiceover is any fast money, is just the wrong thing.”
“…how to connect to the script, which is the most important thing in voiceover. If you read the script but it doesn’t sound like you know what you’re talking about, you’re not connecting with the script.”
“Your full-time job is finding work. That’s your full-time job. So, a voiceover person – what’s your full-time job? Auditioning.”
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