Voice Over Experts

Pat Fraley : Audio Book Good News

Join Voice Over Expert Pat Fraley in his lecture "Audio Book Good News". Pat shares his vast knowledge about the audio book industry and instructs you on how to take advantage of the booming market for audio book narration. Don't miss this episode with tips and insight from an expert audio book producer.

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Pat Fraley, Pat Fraley Teaches, PatFraley.com, Audiobooks, Audio Books, Narration, Narrators, Voice Overs, Voice Acting.

Links from today's show:

Pat Fraley
Billion $ Read : How to Make Money Reading & Recording Books

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Pat Fraley

Pat Fraley Patrick Fraley has created voices for over 4,000 characters, placing him among the top ten performers of all time to be cast in animation. He has produced dozens of award-winning audiobooks, such as, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Very Easy Death, and The Light in The Piazza. Pat produced and performed all 100 voices on the award winning audiobook, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which People Magazine hailed as, “The best yet of this evergreen.” Patrick teaches events, workshops, and seminars on various aspects of voice over across the country, and has created a variety of instructional books and CDs, all available at PatFraley.com. He is a member of The Voice and Speech Trainers of America, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Professional Acting from Cornell University.

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Ellie Devers : Truth and Dare

Join Voice Over Expert Ellie Devers of Audio Paint Voices as she teaches you how to create a secondary world in her lecture "Truth and Dare : Communicating Truthfully in Imaginary Circumstances". Using the basic acting technique of substitution, you can speak the truth of the moment and then dare yourself to go wherever the script and your imagination dictates. Learn how to use three tools effectively to create authentic voice overs.

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Ellie Devers, Audio Paint, Truth and Dare, Voice Acting, Audio, Voice Over Demo, Voice Overs.

Links from today's show:

APVoices.com

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Ellie Devers

Ellie Devers is a professional voice-over actress in New York City. Her voice can be heard on national voice-overs for FDS, Maybelline, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Dennison’s Chili, EPT, and many more. Founded in 2001, Audio Paint Voices is a voice over coaching and production company. Audio Paint Voices (Frank Piazza and Ellie Devers) teaches students, actors, and industry professionals how to understand and improve their reading and speaking skills with the ultimate goal of helping people learn the art of communicating effectively with their voices. Ellie and Frank’s coaching and voice over production is geared toward helping each student apply basic acting technique to the art of voice-over acting. Instruction takes place in a comfortable, recording studio environment.

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David Bourgeois : A Gift YOU Can Give

Join Voice Over Expert David Bourgeois as he shares information about "A Gift YOU Can Give”. David suggests that the best gift you can give to a client is the ability to deliver the same skill level, professionalism and sound quality that is presented on your voice over demo. This episode will help you to see things from the point of view of a client or producer, and along the way, you'll realize that the gift you will be giving to your clients is really the best gift you can give to yourself.

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David Bourgeois, Voice Coaches, Business, Audio Quality, Small Business, Voice, Voice Over Demo, Voice Overs.

Links from today's show:

VoiceCoaches.com

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert David Bourgeois
President and Creative Director

David Bourgeois has worked in professional music and audio production for more than 25 years. Compositions and audio post-production for film, television, advertising and multi-media are all part of David’s resume. As the CEO of White Lake Music & Post, David produces music, audio and voice over content for clients including Discovery Networks, TLC, HGTV and the WE Network as well as numerous other regional and local clients. David recently completed the original music score for The Last Round, an independent feature starring former X Files Smoking Man William B. Davis.

Since 1990, David has been active in developing training methods in effective communication through conversational reading. His effort was initially aimed at helping clients get better performances from their Voice Actors in the studio. David’s methods soon became the model for Voice Coaches' individualized training process.

Today, David and his team provide training to aspiring Voice Actors and communication professionals across the country.

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Julie Williams : Information You Need to Know: What 100 Clients Told Me

Join Voice Over Expert Julie Williams as she shares the results of a brief yet telling survey that reveals some startling data specific to how clients really feel about being approached by voice over talent, where they go to get their voice overs, how often they receive cards, gifts or promotional materials from voice talent and more.

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Julie Williams, Voice-overs.com, Client survey, voice actors, voice talents, marketing, promotional survey, Voices.com, Jobs.

Links from today's show:

Julie Williams
VoiceOver Chocolate
Julie Williams Voices.com Website
Online Voice Casting

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Julie Williams

Julie Williams
“Voice-Over Chocolate”

Julie Williams is celebrating her 30th year in voice-overs. She has voiced thousands of commercials, narrations, video games, infomercials, documentaries, and other types of voice-over. Julie has been heard all over the world, and nationally on HGVT, WE, and other media outlets.

Julie Williams boasts such clients as Coca-Cola, Pampers, Pizza Hut, Billy Graham, The US Army, US steel, Imperial Sugar, Sunny Delight, Dominos Pizza, Adobe, and thousands of others. Currently, Julie is heard on national Eyeglass World commercials, The New Body Shaper infomercial, and Skincerity Skin Care Product ads, as well as hundreds of regional and local spots, and non broadcast flash productions. In addition, she’s the voice of the video game “Stevie Learns Pool Safety.” Samples of Julie’s work can be heard at http://www.voice-overs.com.