Voice Over Video Sunday

This being Comic Con weekend I was looking for a related voice over clip, but then I stumbled upon this interview that Charles Martinet gave with CVG and just had to post it right away. If the name doesn’t sounds that familiar to you then hopefully the voice will as Charles has been the voice of Nintendo’s Mario since Super Mario 64.

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Voice Over Video Sunday

I know I’m super late to the party on this one but I just had to get this video into the archives. Back in 1997 a short film was made for the 26th Annual Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards where the top five movie trailer voice over artists all cram into a limo and head off to the shows. First in is Don LaFontaine, then comes John Leader, Nick Tate, Mark Elliot and finally Al Chalk.

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A mosaic of un-voice-healthy foods.

We all have certain routines that we go through to warm up our voices before any recording session. Some good and some that maybe aren’t that healthy. Something that we should all be paying close attention to are the foods that we are putting into bodies before we go into a session. What foods should we not eat before performing?

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Another source of knowledge and income.

Voice over, as a job, is a freelance business. The voice artist must market themselves, actively hunt down work and constantly improve their craft. Now that may seem like a lot of work, but it does offer something that most other jobs don’t, and it can be found right in the first word; voice artists are free.

AUDIOTUTS is the latest site in Eden’s suite of TUT sites which offer great advice and tutorials on a number of topics for the freelancer. From their Photoshop and web design tutorial sites to FreelanceSwitch, their community site dedicated to the freelance business, I’ve been a big fan of Eden’s offerings for some time now.

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