With the Doldrums Come the Ho-Hums

Posted in Uncategorized | June 24th, 2010

Voiceover can be a lonely business and it only gets worse when it is rainy and depressing outside. The only company a voiceover artist has is the sound of his or her own voice, perhaps thrilling to a self-indulgent narcissist, but downright frustrating when you have no one to use as a sounding board. The only thing to do, of course, is go out to lunch. When you work all day by yourself, calling contacts from your office or recording in your small studio you can start to develop this very common disease called self-pity. The cure? Have lunch with your best friend and have her help you snap out of it. It is very hard to be motivated day after day when the only person in charge of your business is you. Seek people both inside and outside your profession to mentor you and make a point of meeting with those mentors at least once or twice a week. Another thing  you can do to keep your juices flowing as a voiceover artist is to attend seminars. There are many worthwhile seminars out there. My favorite one happens to be the one ran by Top Hat Productions since the person at the helm is Don Morrow. If that name seems familiar to you it’s because Don Morrow was Don LaFontaine’s teacher, the famous movie trailer guy.  His whole seminar for the weekend is only $700 dollars and that includes producing a demo for you to take home with you.  Another thing you can do which I have recently become introduced to is go to voiceover meetups: this is a group of people in your city who are professional voiceover artists who “meetup”to discuss industry secrets. It’s also a great way to network. I can’t tell you how many times that just meeting people in the industry has led to job opportunities for me; perhaps a radio station needed female voices but only knew males in the industry or perhaps a doctor needed someone to record his IVR (interactive voice response) and hadn’t thought of the possibility of a voiceover artist doing this for him. The important thing to remember is that although you spend a majority of your time holed up in a recording studio or your office is: you are not alone. There are plenty of forums and support groups out there to help you in your voiceover goals.

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One Response to “With the Doldrums Come the Ho-Hums”

  1. spacer Heather says:
    June 25, 2010 at 5:58 am

    Good advice for anybody who works for themselves, alone. I go to meetups twice a month, once I go to is just for other technology professionals like me and have made some new friends and have had some business opportunities land in my lap from other professionals. Its also upping my skill set since each month there is a talk from one of the other professionals..usually I am like “I didn’t know that, lets try that…”

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