Post a JobBettye Zoller : Stop! Put First Things First! The Newcomer's Training.
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Your Instructor this week:
Voice Over Expert Bettye Zoller
34 years as a respected university and private educator in voice, speech, theatre, radio-TV, and voiceover techniques along with her award-winning career in voiceovers and jingles has won Bettye Zoller an international reputation that brings clients and students to her workshops and to work in her Dallas recording studio (she's an accomplished audio engineer/producer) from all over the globe! She is educated through the doctorate (from Missouri University, University of Texas at Dallas, University of North Texas) with faculty positions in the past at Southern Methodist University, University of Texas at Arlington, Dallas County Colleges. She has also studied with famed NYC acting coach Uta Hagen, in Chicago at the "Second City School" and her career began long ago at Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Hollywood studio school (as a child performer signed to MGM).
Her voiceover credits number in the many hundreds (she's never counted!) and range from voiceovers and jingles for national TV commercials to audio books to cartoons, from toys to podcasts to anime. You've heard her for decades worldwide! Clients have included American Airlines,Pepsi, Visa, Lifetime TV Channel, The Weather Channel, Pace Picante Sauce, Lionel Trains, Texas Instruments Talking Toys, Seven Seas Dressings, Pedialyte Vitamins, promos for ABC, NBC, and BBC America. She is a Simon and Schuster audio book author, narrator, and producer. She has won ADDYS, CLIOS, GOLDEN RADIOS, and AUDIE awards over the years. She is the author of eleven audio titles sold worldwide and continues to produce new titles annually. She is known for teaching voiceover techniques including audio book narration and production, and her BUSINESS OF VOICEOVERS workshops are legendary with students who credit her with starting them in their lucrative voiceover careers!
Bettye, with four top male announcers, has written and produced a wonderful CD program entitled "COMMERCIAL$PEAK" featuring interviews and sections announced by guests and male announcers of reputation. The foreword is by Dick Orkin of Hollywood Radio Ranch, a man who is well known in the U.S. as a commercial creator producer as well as Voice Over performer and teacher.
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Comments
Absolutely!!
As usual, Bettye is right-on in this recent podcast. The more I speak about voice over training across the US, the more i hear the same question..."How Do I Make A Demo?" This is, in almost all cases, a serious case of getting the cart ahead of the horse.
For example. if I wanted to go into a field like aviation, would it make sense for me to get my pilots license prior to learning how to fly?
Make no mistake, professionals in our industry recognize individuals who demonstrate professional skill and job knowledge. These traits are key components of building long-term repeat work relationships... and... long-term repeat work relationships are a key element in building a successful career as a voice actor.
For those just starting out here are some steps in order that you may want to follow.
1. Learn about the field.
2. Become educated and develop job skill and knowledge.
3. Determine you individual voice strengths.
4. Represent those strengths on separate commercial and narrative demos.
5. Continually market yourself.
6. Enjoy the process.
7. Regularly repeat steps 1,2,5 and 6.
Great Thoughts Bettye!
David at Voice Coaches
Posted by: David at Voice Coaches | March 31, 2008 3:15 PM
Bettye,
Thank you so much for providing such detailed information for newcomers to the world of voice over. I have studied weekly with a private coach for over a year now, and I just completed my first professionally produced commerical demo, and I was lucky to already have a home studio. I realized, once I started asking other voice over actors at local workshops how they kept their career booming, I realized just how much work there is available online. But, as you said, it's very important to continue the training and coaching, and thank you so much for re-iterating that. I dream of being on a podcast someday soon, and you are a huge inspiration to me. I truly enjoyed your advice, and look forward to hearing more from you on these great podcasts at www.voices.com, my favorite online voice casting website so far!
Sincerely,
Keely Rene Field
www.voices.com Member
Profile: http://keelyrenefield.voices.com
Posted by: Keely Rene Field | April 1, 2008 8:42 AM