Give your business the right voice

A voice over is a narrative technique in which an unseen actor’s lines are heard over visual elements in a movie or commercial. Choosing the right voice actor can transform your advertisement from simple to extraordinary, so choose a voice that will make your audience “like” you the most.

The voice over industry is growing faster and stronger than ever, reaching markets linked with new technologies. Corporate and commercial projects are still the bread and butter jobs for the voice over business, but the increase in voiceover demands for videogames, apps, GPs, text to speech, Internet publishing, would give talent the opportunity to stretch their vocal cords more often and see more opportunities to work on different projects.

We offer multilingual professional VO talents for Business Narration, Cartoons, Jingles, Movie Trailers, Radio & TV commercials, Telephone IVR, Videogames, Dubbing, among other voice services in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Mandarin, etc.

Choose a voice to sell your product that establishes an appropriate relation between your idea and your target. Give your business the right voice.

The Growing Popularity Of Audio Books, an art-form adaptable to new technology

With the arrival of the Internet, broadband technologies, new compressed audio formats and portable media players, the popularity of audio books has increased significantly.

Due to the growing acceptance, people involved in this business are becoming more powerful. There is a huge demand for them, especially now that people use portable audio equipment on a regular basis. People can find audio books online,  download from  iTunes Audiobooks, libraries who offers audiobooks for free, and some other who like to buy audiobooks CD format.

Over the time, figures show released that downloads have greatly increased this market, a format that first achieved popularity with the invention of the cassette and extended beyond childhood the experience of being read to.

Producing audio books consist of a narrator sitting in a recording booth reading the text, while a studio engineer and a director record and direct the performance. Audiobooks are distributed on  CDs, MP3 CDs, and downloadable digital formats.

The advent of the Internet has introduced powerful means of delivery, many titles are now available on-line for download on to computers, tablets, and phones, or one may listen to website audio streams without having to download anything.

They are considered a valuable learning tool because of their format. Unlike traditional ones or a video program, people can learn from an audiobook while doing other tasks, although it should be noted that this can detract from the primary task, assuming the learning is not the main activity. The most popular general use by adults is when driving an automobile or traveling with public transport, as an alternative to radio. Many people listen as well just to relax or as they drift off into sleep.

If your  production required to record audio books, at Elite Music Studios, we have the greatest voices in English, Spanish, Italian, German, among other languages to give live to your creativity.

 Reference: Wikipedia

Dubbing- Simultaneous English VO

Dubbing project, original interview was done in Spanish.

The power of Spanish language

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the Hispanic population in the United States has increased by nearly thirty percent since the year 2000. That’s a huge increase and a market to be reckoned with.

Use Hispanic voice talents for your advertising campaign!

Today we are recording for Buffalo Wild Wings to US Hispanic Market. South Florida VO talents… only at Elite Music Studios

ISDN

ADR

Spanish, English, Portuguese, among other languages

Stay tune…

Audiobook Recording Session

Senator Marco Rubio’s recording session at Elite MusicStudios on April 27th, 2012.

"An American Son" his own memoir audio book, set to come out to June 19^th, 2012.

Written and read by Senator Marco Rubio

 

Produced, directed and abridged by John McElroy

ISDN recording session with Lisa Ling

Lisa Ling recording in our studio for her TV program “Our America with Lisa Ling”. Featured on OWN Oprah Winfrey Network

The Art of Foley

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.

Recording Session

ISDN session

Dubbing Services English-Spanish

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

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

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/