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Comment by Christine Ivy on January 8, 2010 at 11:34pm

I am a newbie to VO but not to character work. Hey all I am excited about this group. My 70 something mom and I call ourselves the original "teenage drama queens". I think that qualifies me to be a part of this group.

In my past I did a children's ministry with puppets. We had 150 puppets and all the voices were mine:) When I ao to audition for plays I usually go for the character roles cuz they are the most fun. Do you see a pattern??

One of the VO focus ideas for me is do animation and anything with character voices. So I look forward to this group.

Comment by Marian Massaro on December 2, 2009 at 9:53pm

As many of us will be attending the 2nd Annual NYC Voiceover Mixer on Saturday, Dec. 5th -- the hours for Bob Bergen's Voiceover Class in NYC that weekend have been changed to 10am - 5pm for BOTH Saturday and Sunday. Studio location is at John Marshall Sound, 630 Ninth Avenue at 44th Street.

I have one spot available for auditing and/or taking the workshop. If interested, please contact me at 917-842-5395.

Looking forward to seeing you this weekend at the Workshop AND The Mixer!

Marian

Marian Massaro
http://www.marianmassaro.com
917-842-5395

Comment by Chuck Wedge on November 27, 2009 at 1:49pm

Hi all,
I love character work the most because I enjoy the acting and have a very "charactery" voice. I am happy to be a new member of this group. I am sure I will learn alot from all of you and hopefully I can share a bit as well.

One often overlooked area of character work is toys. This is actually a bit different than other areas because everything is short snippets and lots of concatenation. I just started a group to talk about the Toys market if anyone is interested.
http://www.voiceoveruniverse.com/group/toysvoicesatplay

Comment by Mitch Urban on November 27, 2009 at 2:06am

Oh, and Hi to all the voicelympics cruisers. Connie how did I miss you? Where you there?

Comment by Mitch Urban on November 27, 2009 at 2:03am

Hi Lani, yes I recently voiced four characters in the Prison Break game, and usable voices is the key. You cant just pull out a bunch of silly accents and think you are doing different characters. Different attitudes, inflection, speech patterns, and so much more go into every person that you portray.

Comment by Connie Mustang on November 26, 2009 at 5:16pm

WISHING A HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL MY V.O. FAMILY. YOU ARE TRULY A BLESSING TO HAVE IN MY LIFE. ENJOY THE DAY!

Comment by Patrick Sweeney on September 29, 2009 at 7:34am

Thanks Joe for the welcome. Marian, just finished taking Bob Bergens workshop on the Voicelympics Cruise and it was one of the best workshops I have ever taken. If you get a chance Floridians, don't miss it when he comes in November. He gets the best out of you.

Comment by Joe J Thomas on September 24, 2009 at 12:06pm

A big Howdy and Welcome to all our new members!

Talk it up gang!
Joe

Comment by Lani Minella on July 19, 2009 at 7:09pm

Hi everyone! I thought I'd post this here first because, as a computer game casting director and actor, being able to do a whole slew of USABLE characters in USABLE accents, different ages and textures is a MUST ---I have found that even the most talented character actors who haven't done a lot of game VOs have a tough time being able to spread themselves thin enough to cover the quantity of characters needed to cover the small number of lines each character has.
So------if you think you are already a real pro and have done this stuff before, feel free to visit Talent Assessment page. Classes and coaching links are also there, if you'd like more instant help to get where you need to be to land those jobs.
Best of luck to all, and please note: I don't make a living teaching and what I teach is really intense, highly useful immediately and everyone gets a lot of personal attention. I won't be offering these for very long, but I do want to help as many people as I can...and heck----if I can put you to work---we all win! Thanks and have a great summer!

Comment by Herb Merriweather on March 28, 2009 at 2:32am

Hey, Joe...
Finally getting around to visiting -and commenting. You say you are singing and reading in character. That's great! I don't do it as often as I should. I'm reminded of the classic-and hilarious version of "Blue Christmas" performed by Porky Pig. What a hoot! However, I can't imagine the Sun King singing"Little Drummer Boy".

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