Talent Spotlight: Jared McKiernan
Jared McKiernan recorded his demos back in 2017, and since then has been rocking out on the radio. Read about his journey from someone who was new to VO to becoming the “voice of the station”! What were you …
Improv Games to Help Your Voice-Over Practice
Improv is an acting technique where the actors react spontaneously to circumstances, scenarios, and each other, developing the characters and the scene as they go. Using improv in your voice-over practice will allow you to make strong choices and break …
Working Wednesday: Travel While You Work
Hey y’all! Last month I wrote a blog post outlining and unpacking a few tips I’ve learned from working as I travel, and this week I’m excited to take you along for the ride! Last fall, my local artists’ community …
Fun, Focus, Ease, and Breathe
How can you, as a voice-over artist, be the most creatively productive in a world of “Do! Do! Do!”, when to perform, you need to connect to just being? If you find yourself “doing” too much and you make no …
Working Wednesday: Feeling Emotion in Your Voice with the Emotion Wheel
Improvisation skills and being able to think fast on your feet (or voice) when given direction is a necessity when recording most voice over projects in the studio. Our job as a voice actor is to give voice and emotion …
How to Make Emotional Connections to a Voice-Over Script
Click here to hear Bonnie read this article! “Nothing…I’m feeling nothing…” this sentiment from that song in “A Chorus Line” is not what you want to be thinking when you read through a script as a voice-over artist, nor what …
How to Quiet a Critical Mind in VO (and in life!)
Depending on where you are on your Such A Voice journey, (and this will vary depending on if you are doing 30- or 60-minute sessions, but let’s go with 30-minutes for the sake of example), you may recognize this familiar …
4 Booth Mistakes Everyone Makes!
You’ve gotten the training and now you’re ready to build that home studio so you can get your voice-over career off the ground. Prepare for liftoff by avoiding these mistakes that everyone starting out makes in their home studios. Mistake …
Talent Spotlight: Jimmy Shoffman
Jimmy Shoffman recorded his demos at the end of last year, and since then has been booking work and building up his VO business. Want to know his story? Check it out below! What were you up to before …
Studio On-The-Go: How to Work as a VO Nomad
Unlike a lot of freelance entrepreneurs living that #LaptopLifestyle, as voice-over artists, we need more than just a hot cup of coffee and a laptop to create a nomadic work life. However, it’s not a total impossibility, just because we …
4 Things You Need To Get Started in Voice-Over
A microphone and a website are all you need to start doing VO. Okay… that is a bit simplistic. But, all you really need other than that is software to capture and edit audio, and something to kill background noise …
Vocal Health vs. Your Social Life
As a voice-over artist, your voice is your instrument. It’s the most important tool you have when you walk into work each morning and it must sound consistent each time you step behind the microphone – which means it’s part …