Elaine Clark : Acting In The White Spaces
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Your Instructor this week:
Voice Over Expert Elaine Clark
Elaine Clark began her voice-over career in the early 1980s. She is an award winning actor, director, producer, playwright and the author of the quintessential voice-over book, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is. Her first voice-over job was for Wendy’s “guess how many corners to a square hamburger” campaign. Since then Ms. Clark has voiced hundreds of commercials including Clorox, TiVo, Macy’s, Chevron, PineSol, PG&E, California Milk Advisory Board, Quaker Chewy Granola Bars, Manwich, Fuller-O’Brien Paint, World Savings, Wheel Works, Amazon.com, Round Table Pizza, Tap Plastics, Party America, and promos for ABC. A few of her narration clients include Microsoft, Genentech, Oracle, WalMart, North Face, Kaiser Permanente, Better Homes Realty, NIC, Providian, Fujitsu, and L’Oreal.
The owner/founder of VOICE ONE in San Francisco, Elaine Clark and her staff of professionals train actors in voice-over, on-camera, acting, and improv. Ms. Clark has numerous directing and casting credits including two anime cartoon series, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Saikano; over 50 video games including Spawn, Aliens, Skies of Arcadia, D2, Mother Goose’s Farm, and Dark Wizard; and hundreds of toys. She is featured in the DVD Hello Anime!
Ms. Clark travels the world teaching and directing voice-over, acting, and communication. Recently, she was dubbed the Communication Guru of India.
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Comments
Elaine,
Thanks for the very informative podcast. I enjoyed listening to your voice. Inspires just about anyone to take action. :)
Troy
Posted by: Troy Ziel | September 20, 2007 6:58 AM
Elaine is the greatest. This podcast alone attests to her unique ability to help vo students get to that point where they can consistently access their best reads through imagination and strong acting choices. Her book, "There's Money Where Your Mouth Is" is a revelation too.
Posted by: Daniela | October 4, 2007 2:32 AM
Finally had a chance to listen - thanks Elaine - I'll link to the permalink and assign this as required listening to my voiceover class this semester.
Keep your eyes on the script!
Posted by: Connie Terwilliger | January 7, 2008 8:12 PM