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UK’s Top 10 Iconic Voice Artists.

How cool to find a link from a site that lists what they consider to be the UK’s Top 10 Iconic TV voice artists. #1 - Oliver Postgate

Friday Fun: Over-the-top Sci-Fi Trailer VO’s

Kudos to io9.com for some fun recent postings. The latest featuring some great trailers for sci-fi films that feature some elaborate VO, properly titled: What The Hell Are You Talking About, Crazy Announcer

Green Lantern: Q&A with Andrea Romano

Check out the interview with Casting Director Andrea Romano about the upcoming animated original film, Green Lantern : First Flight. excerpt: When you’re a casting director, you never really know how it’s going to work out until you’re in the room doing the gig. This was one of those instances where I thought, “I know what the [...]

Don LaFontaine Award for Best Voice Over

How cool, and well deserved. The Directors Guild of America renamed the Best Voice Over category as the Don LaFontaine Award for Best Voice Over. This year’s winner was Corey Burton for his work “Tropic Thunder - Hollywood Legend” a spoof of the making of documentary “Heart of Darkness” Congrats Corey and to The Don…we [...]

From Failure to Failure Without Loss of Enthusiasm

I’m going through some old emails and came across one that was worth posting from C.J. Hayden, author of Get Clients Now! Her emails are always filled with great info and this is merely one example: One of my clients had recently experienced a string of failures. A business venture that had consumed a great deal of [...]

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James Lorenz - NY based voiceover artist

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I WORK IN THE VOICE OVER INDUSTRY AS A(N): Voice Actor

HERE'S A LITTLE ABOUT ME AND MY VOICE OVER EXPERIENCE: In reality, I guess I could say I have close to 10 years experience in voiceovers. But I choose to use October 2005 as the moment when I decided to try and make a career of it.

Previous to that date, I was involved in numerous projects in my role as an audio/visual technician.

Voice of God (VOG) for live events - Announcements and introductions of various speakers and award winners.
Live commercial reads - Annual Hamlet Cup Tennis Tournament. Live commercial P.A. reads.
Studio voiceovers - Various reads for our in-house production department. Mostly introductions and award winner announcements.

After a while I realized that voiceovers might be for me and I began to persue the training necessary to advance in the field. That training continues to this day and helped me become a full-time voice actor in October 2007.
Clients include:
The Dime Savings Bank
Brother International
Microsoft
Boar's Head
Seagrams
North Shore LIJ
LIPA
and more...

RECENTLY BOOKED PROJECTS: Dime Savings Bank
Brother International
North Shore LIJ
Prudential
Astoria Federal

VOICE DESCRIPTION: Friendly
Upbeat
Guy Next Door
Words that describe not only my voice, but myself as a person. A voice actors most natural voice is the essence of who he or she is. As an eternal optimist with a steady smile on my face, this is who I am.

Manic
Over the Top
Energetic
I'm easily enthused and excited and while I have learned to keep myself in check, I love being able to let loose in a read.

Confident
Firm
Authoritative
Somewhere between the first two, this is a restraining of excitement to form a concise, focused message with a motivational energy.

Smooth
Sincere
Heartfelt
The most challenging yet most rewarding reads for me. I love reaching that emotional level in a performance.

Now...if you're looking for a deep voiced movie trailer guy voice...that's not me! :)

Commercials, Narration, Audiobooks, Corporate Promos, Telephone Services (IVR) and more.

Let me create an original character for your Animation or Videogames. Check out my multiple demos featuring my many voices and characters.

I'm a full-time NY based voice actor with a flexible schedule to guarantee a friendly, professional experience.

My fully equipped, professional recording studio guarantees a great finished product.
Go to jameslorenz.com for full download versions.

I was initially concerned about tackling an audio book—a project that requires so much time and feedback—with an actor long-distance, and with someone I’d never met face-to-face. James Lorenz made it easy for me.
James owned the project from start to finish. He brought good ideas to the table that made the end result better, helped set up a system for sending big audio files back and forth, took my email comments and without a blink incorporated my ideas into his performances, and never hesitated when I asked to him redo something.
James’s voice sounds great, and the sound quality of his recordings are at least as good if not better than the other audio books I have on my bookshelf.
James was a pro at every turn. I would recommend James without hesitation for your voice acting or voiceover needs.
Art Edwards
Owner
Defunct Press

DIALECTS: Brooklyn, Southern, British, French, Russian, German, Jamaican

LANGUAGES: English

WEBSITE: http://www.jameslorenz.com

AUDIO DELIVERY METHOD: FTP, AIF, MP3, WAV

EQUIPMENT: Sterling ST-55 Large Condenser Mic, dbx 286a Mic Pre-Amp/Processor, Tascam US-144 4-Channel Audio/MIDI Interface, Cakewalk DAW

VOICES YOU ARE ABLE TO PERFORM: Senior Male, Middle Age Male, Middle Age Female, Young Adult Male, Teenage Boy, Child Male, Baby

Check out my blog!

As the name implies...it's not just voiceover. I'll discuss other things like sports, art, TV, movies, wine and so much more.

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Voiceover Universe - Love the name change!

I saw the new banner and just have to say I love the new name...Voiceover Universe.
Congrats and thanks for a quickly growing site for VO talent.
James

Posted on June 10, 2008 at 8:37pm — 1 Comment

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At 9:02pm on September 18, 2008, Kitzie Stern said…: Thanks James! I'm glad to be here.

Kitzie

At 1:12am on August 26, 2008, Ryan Drean said…: Cool...Carrollton is not by me but in DFW everything is pretty spread out. Not like LA but still. Thanks for the welcome!

Ryan

At 12:28am on August 12, 2008, Conchita Congo said…: Great logo!

At 3:26am on July 21, 2008, Trish Basanyi said…: Hey James! Glad you like the show! I'm a little late commenting back, but thanks for the add too! Hope you're enjoying your summer......and if you're coming to Voice 2008 I'll see you there!

--Trish

At 12:28pm on July 15, 2008, Donna Reed said…: James: Such a great voice; I really enjoy reading your blog as well!
~Donna

At 11:30am on July 9, 2008, Bruce Jacobson said…: Good to see ya, James. How are things in the Big Apple?

At 8:26pm on July 3, 2008, Bob Bergen said…: Hey James!

I actually did a couple of workshops in NYC earlier this year. But I'll pass your name along to my workshop producer, Marian Massaro. If another NYC class gets on the books you'll be the first to know.

;-)

At 11:16am on July 3, 2008, stew herrera said…: Hi James! Nice to meet you- (again?) And thank you for the welcoming comment- Wow- everyone's here!

-s2-