Edvard Munch’s iconic work ‘The Scream’ is one of the most instantly recognizable images in both art history and popular culture. Prior to the recent Sotheby’s auction in which the painting sold for $120 million dollars, a voice over job was posted on Voice123 for the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012 by Steven Lowell
A few weeks ago, documentary filmmaker Duki Dror from Tel Aviv, and Voice123 talent Debbie Irwin, enjoyed a successful premiere of “Incessant Visions: Letters From an Architect” at the Film Society of Lincoln Center for the New York Jewish Film Festival. Voice123 was happy to be in attendance and see a voice talent’s name on… [Read more…]
February 22, 2012 by Steven Lowell
In honor of ‘Be Humble Day’, I wanted to share a testimonial. This is taken from an email I received from Bradley Stearn at Red Spectrum Pictures UK. Please read for how voice seekers and voice talent can help each other: “The experience with using Voice123 was fantastic. I have never been on a website… [Read more…]
February 16, 2012 by Steven Lowell
Voice123 has been in existence for 10 years, and for a period of time, many associated online casting with “finding someone with a home studio in some part of the world”. But, do you know how to use Voice123 to work locally? It is very easy to do, so let me illustrate with a true… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012 by Steven Lowell
I preface this post with a quote: “The shortest distance between two points is simplicity.” Why? Recently I took a look back at jobs posted on Voice123 since March 2008. These were not just any jobs. They were… SmartCast automated job listings The budget by the voice seeker was “Union Rates” The Unions specifically chosen… [Read more…]
December 2, 2011 by Steven Lowell
Voice123 hears of great stories where voice over talent helped voice seekers, beyond the call of voice over duty. Recently, voice talent Brian Egan shared feedback from a voice seeker in which, beyond simple script reading, Brian helped a client who hired him by helping to write script, assistance, and co-producing. The premier is tomorrow,… [Read more…]
October 12, 2011 by Steven Lowell
In the first week of October, Voice123 was contacted by a voice seeker with a very specific request, and it required looking deeper into a voice over community both with software, and social media. You may have seen this voice over job posting. As you can see…very specific! So, how did the Voice123 staff get… [Read more…]
After reading about George Lucas’ intentions to tamper with the Trilogy one more time: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/02/other-ridiculous-star-wars-blu-ray-c… We posted a project in Voice123 http://voice123.com/lv/Tampering_with_the_Trilogy.html asking our talents to come up with new dialogues. Check the resulting video! You can check all of the other auditions in the following link: http://voice123.com/web/user/shared_inbox.cgi?data=8acfcecdc0cfd0d0cecbc9ccc9c0c9cfcac8
This is a tip that doesn’t deal directly with casting, but is something that even many radio spot producers don’t know. When a radio spot runs a full 60 seconds, sometimes your first word or two and last word or two can become lost in the spot that comes before or after yours, or may… [Read more…]
VO Tip – Own a stopwatch and some sort of way to record your voice. As a voice talent, I frequently receive receive a script that either sounds like nobody ever read it aloud, bothered to check the timing of it, or both. For these two reasons, every copywriter, director, producer, client or whomever is… [Read more…]
May 4, 2012 by Steven Lowell
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