Monthly Archives: October 2023

How To Study Commercials & TV to FEED YOUR VO READ

You have to study the medium you intend to work in if you hope to feed your imagination—which ultimately reflects in your performance. Lucky for us, today we’re able to view and study television, voiceover, film, and commercial work with greater ease than ever and from almost anywhere.

How the Actors’ STRIKE Impacts the Voiceover Industry, Part 2

“The Revolution shall NOT be televised,” as Gil Scott-Heron famously said.

When it comes to the backstory that provoked the dual writers and actors’strike no truer word were spoken. The key details of how and why these two vital, creative industry Guilds entered into this collective strike hasn’t been widely delineated, partly because the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers) are quite literally who own mass media through which that information would, should and could be broadcast.

Quite the formidable foe, wouldn’t you say? Even with a deal on the table between the AMPTP and the WGA that’s projected to be ratified within the week by the writers, the studios won’t be sharing with their audiences why they’ve avoided coming to the table to negotiate with the writers and actors all summer.

IATSE.net:
Marvel Studios VFX Workers Unanimously Vote to Unionize with IATSE, Marking Historic First

SAGAFTRASTRIKE.org:
https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/post/on-strike-in-the-mid-size-and-small-locals

Variety.com:
New WGA Contract Explained: AI Is Not a Writer, Solo Scribe Shows Don’t Need Minimum Staff and More

Variety.com:
‘We Caused Them Pain’: The Inside Story of How the WGA and AMPTP Negotiated a ‘Great Deal’ to End the Writers Strike

Night Meeting, adapted from Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles”

This is our second recorded offering in our month long homage to great storytelling and to Halloween. Adapted from Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles”, we present our spin on this Twilight Zone-inspired tale, performed by a few of my most talented friends in our LA studio one crisp October night a few years back. This is podcast the remarkable result. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed performing in it.

 

Listen every Thursday throughout the month of October leading up to Halloween for another creepy-cool story such as this.