EMS Elite Music Studios

Voice-over Demo

2012-02-29T10:08:00.000-08:00

In the world of voice acting, your demo is your best opportunity to present your skills to agents, producers, etc.

The demo is your audio resume, your letter of introduction, is your main marketing tool, so is important that you have it if you are to compete in the world of professional voice-over to offer your services. The purpose of a demo is to get you work!

In today's voice over world, the trend is to have specifics demos, one for commercials, one for narration, IVR, characters, etc. no longer than 30 seconds each. For the purpose of marketing voice-over talent in today's highly technological word, it is absolute must that your VO demo exists as an electronic. The demo can be emailed which makes it immediately available for listening and/ or downloading worldwide.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Don't produce your demo if you're not ready.
You must have the proper training, some experience to offer a professional level.
Never put your demo something you can not play.
Include a wide range of variety in style and character, even if your demo is focusing on you voice stye, rather than character. Keep listener guessing as to what happen next.
Keep your demo short.

CATEGORIES

Commercials

Announcer

Guy or Girl next door

Real person

Hard Sale

Characters

Accents

Caricatures

Imitation

Promos TV

Imaging, Branding

Narration

Documentary

Industrials- Corporate

Audiobooks

Fiction

Childrens

Tech

Trailers

Spanish-French, etc.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

2012-02-14T09:47:00.000-08:00

Do all things with love

VO Talents: Exercising your voice

2012-02-07T07:40:00.000-08:00

Your vocal cords are muscles, appropriate exercises and maintenance will bring considerable endurance and stronger performance in your auditions and recording sessions.

Two essential things for exercising your voice: Deep breath, with control and making sound.

Work on breathing from your diaphragm will help to correct some problems. As your exercise your voice, awareness of what is happening physically is vital to develop your ability to experience yourself as you work on changing a habit.

Keeping your voice in good condition is crucial to keeping your performing abilities at their peak.

2012-01-31T08:16:00.000-08:00

Use Spanish VO for an advertising campaigns. Spanish VO talents can reach this growing market

2012-01-30T07:25:00.000-08:00

Choose a voice to represent your company that establishes an appropriate personality and mood

The Art of Foley

2012-01-16T09:41:00.000-08:00

A Foley artist recreates sound effects for film, TV and radio productions using different kinds of shoes and lots of props (plates, glasses, chairs). They work under the direction of a Sound Editor and often use their own extensive collection of small props. They are the unseen actors who reproduce sounds, required when the original track is either unusable or completely replaced as in the case of foreign versions.

Foley generally consists of three elements:

Clothing Moves: The Moves Track is a layer of sound that recreates the clothing rustle of actors as they walk, run and move. It sounds like a smooth but distinct white noise that allows the mixer a base coat of sound. It allows the artist to create a “sound design” for the characters and sets the overall tone of the Foley Track.

Footsteps: A Foley artist is sometimes called a 'Foley Walker' because one of the most important elements we provide is the sound of the footsteps. Feet are very difficult to perform. It takes a lot of practice to get the exact feeling and timing while standing stationary - you can' t walk across the room because the microphone needs to be fixed and besides.

Specifics: These are the real fun in Foley. They allow you to paint with sound, recreating the actual movements in an enhanced way.

· Corn Starch in a leather pouch makes the sound of snow crunch.

· A pair of gloves sounds like bird wing flaps.

· A heavy staple gun and or other metal parts make can make a good gun sound.

· Cellophane can make the sound of crackling fire (the effects editor should do the fire but in a pinch it does work).

· A heavy rolled and taped up telephone book makes a good 'body punching' surface

Without these crucial background noises, movies, TV series, radio productions, etc. feel unnaturally quiet and uncomfortable.

… If your big productions required a very specific sound effect, at Elite Music Studios, we have one of the greatest Foley artist and sound engineer to give live to your creativity.

Character VO Coaching

2012-01-10T06:29:00.000-08:00

Rob Paulsen, one of the most prolific cartoon voice over artists in North America, is offering VO coaching.

Best known as the voice behind Raphael from the 1987 cartoon of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, this VO actor announced that, for the first time, is providing private coaching via Skype, by phone or in person in LA, and he will be hosting voice over events across the US.

The chance to learn from Paulsen has been in the hearts and minds of aspiring voice actors for generations as they’ve listened to him give life to a huge of iconic characters such as Pinky and Dr. Scratch ‘n’ Sniff from The Animaniacs, Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Arthur in “The Tick,” Carl Wheezer from “Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius,” Jack Fenton in “Danny Phantom,” among others.

Whether your goal is to enhance your abilities and knowledge in this competitive business of Voice-Overs Pualsen is knocking and you should answer the door!

To know more visit his web page www.robpaulsenlive.com

And his podcast Talkin Toon

Recording Session

2012-01-05T11:17:00.000-08:00

ISDN session

2012-01-04T07:35:00.000-08:00

JAN 2ND, 2011 Today's Celebrity Birthday

2012-01-02T09:22:00.000-08:00

Gabrielle Carteris, born on 1961, is an American actress known for her role as Andrea Zuckerman on the early seasons of the 1990s television series Beverly Hills, 90210.

Voice-overs

Batman: The Brave and the Bold - (2011) Vicki Vale

Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits - Nafia

Bionic Commando - Jayne “Mag” Magdalene / Radio Operator

Icewind Dale II

La Pucelle Tactics - Angelique

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Elektra, Enchantress

Tia Carrere, born on January 2, 1967, is an American actress, model, voice artist, and singer.

Voice-overs

The Night of the Headless Horseman (1999)

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Stitch! The Movie (2003)

Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005)

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

American Dragon: Jake Long

Cuba Gooding Jr, from The Bronx, New York, born on 1968. He is an American actor, best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of Rod Tidwell in 1996 film Jerry Maguire.
Voice-overs

Starring roles: Home on the range 2004 “Buck”

The land before time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends 2007 “Angelique

Taye Diggs , born on 1971. He is an American theatre, film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway musical Rent, and the television series Private Practice.

Voice-overs

Historical Panther 2

The Superhero Squad Show: Black Panther

Paz Vega born on1976. She is a Spanish actress. The 2001 film Sex and Lucia brought the actress to the attention of a larger audience. She then became much better known in the United States after appearing in a supporting role in the 2004 film Spanglish opposite Adam Sandler.

Voice-overs

Wanted: Weapons of Fate “Araña” video game

Kate Bosworth, born on 1983. She is an American actress. She became known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush.

Voice-overs

Video games

2006 Superman Returns Lois Lane

2010 CR: Superman Returns Lois Lane

2011-12-19T10:31:00.000-08:00

The Man of a Thousand Voices

2011-12-14T08:47:00.000-08:00

Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry. He was an American voice actor and comedian, best remembered for his work with Warner Bros as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Woody Woodpecker, Speedy Gonzales, Tom and Jerry and hundreds of others.

Blanc was the first person to play Toucan Sam in Froot Loops commercials, using a slightly cartoonist version of his natural voice.

Blanc is regarded as one of, if not the, most prolific voice actor in the history of the industry.

He was the first voice actor to get credit in the ending credits and ushered in a new era for voice actors, where they were regarded as a significant part of the creative process, rather than easy-to-replace finishing touches.

Many episodes of the short-lived The Mel Blanc Show are now available on YouTube

What Do Some Of The Top Growth Industries Have In Common? Voice Overs

2011-11-22T09:30:00.000-08:00

According to a new report by IBISWorld USA, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) leads the list of the ten industries expected to see the highest growth rate between 2010-2016. Also on the Top 10 list are video games and Internet publishing.

This is good news for the voice over industry. These sectors regularly require voice over talent for their audio needs and could become major contributors in the job market for voice talent as they grow.

The voice over industry is said to be over $11 billion strong which is divided across a huge span of niche markets including Business, Cartoons, Documentaries, Educational Video, Internet, Jingles, Movie Trailers, Music, Podcasting, Radio, Telephone, Television and Videogames.

Corporate projects currently lead the bread and butter jobs for the voice over industry. An increase in voice over jobs for video games would give talent the opportunity to stretch their creative muscles more often and with the growing popularity of Internet publishing as a new method for entertainment programming voice actors may see more opportunities to work on projects in online broadcasting.

Over the last two years Voices.com has seen an increase in Internet job postings which seems to suggest that there is the potential for these growth industries to lean more toward e-commerce sites to search for, audition, and cast their projects.

The future is looking bright!!!

More info at: http://www.voiceovertimes.com/

Dubbing Services English-Spanish

2011-11-16T07:16:00.000-08:00

Dubbing work done at Elite Music Studios-EMS by Miami voice over actors. Filmed in Spanish, dubbed into English.

Actors: Margarita Coego, Cristina Figarola, Manolo Coego, Jeannette Lehr, James Keller, CC Limardo, Lenny Rabinowitz.

Dub Version

Original Version

Dubbing

2011-11-10T09:29:00.000-08:00

Dubbing work for The Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation

"A good actor can do a thousand vices because he finds a place in his body for his voice and centers his performance from that place". Charles Nelson

Celebrities & Cartoon Voice Acting

2011-11-08T08:10:00.000-08:00

Less than 20 years ago, voice acting was almost exclusively the realm of voice actors—people specifically trained to provide voices for animated characters. The rise of the celebrity voice actor can be traced to a single film: Disney's 1992 breakout animated hit Aladdin, where Robin Williams voiced the film's hyperactive Genie.

The celebrification of voicework can be traced through the films Disney released in the years after Aladdin, from The Lion King (Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Whoopi Goldberg, James Earl Jones) to Home on the Range (Roseanne Barr, Dame Judi Dench). But the trend has been most prevalent in the computer-animated films that have dominated family-friendly cinema since Pixar released Toy Story in 1995.

The marketability of a big-name celebrity voice actor gave way, perhaps inevitably, to an even more insidious trend: directly basing a character's appearance on the famous actor providing its voice. With the marketing machine growing larger by the day unfortunately, conventional voice actors rarely get the chance to helm a contemporary animated film. Banderas's voice is perfect for Puss—the character was tailored to it, after all—but in the end, Banderas has one voice, and when the best voice actors have "a thousand voices," it's hard not to feel like they're being wasted.

EMS Elite Music Studios wants to share this great article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/10/how-celebrities-took-over-cartoon-voice-acting/247481/