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CC Heim Backstage Pass
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure if it's Ted or New Years goals and ambition at work, but many of the auditions I've been seeing at voices.com have 100+ people answering them.
So, maybe lots of new people trying to jump into the VO waters? Don't worry... I'm sure that it'll soon turn out to be like the health club in mid-February: back to the same devoted people have made it their lifestyle. |
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Jeffrey Kafer Assistant Zookeeper
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4931 Location: Location, Location!
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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they were also offering the lower membership price recently. So this may be a bunch of noobs jumping in. Your gym analogy is good. _________________ Jeff
http://JeffreyKafer.com
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Scott Pollak The Gates of Troy
Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Posts: 1903 Location: Looking out at the San Juan mountains
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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One reason I didn't renew my voices.com membership a couple of years ago is because even back then it seemed that every single lead got 100+ auditions submitted to it. _________________ Scott R. Pollak
Clients include Pandora, NPR Atlanta, Wells Fargo, Cisco, Humana, Publix, UPS, AT&T, HP, Xerox and more.
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melissa eX MMD
Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 2793 Location: Lower Manhattan, New Amsterdam, the original NYC
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Perhaps what's in my heart is that I know individuals who have woirked hard and tried to do the right thing. |
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It's about as scripted as you can get. Please, let me pick out 10 people talented actors at random who are living on the razor thin edge of existence, who aren't stealing and pimping, but instead working minimum wage jobs to stay off
the streets, and let's get them some v.o. work. |
Hmm... kind of brings to mind the beginning of the financial crisis - the sub-prime mortgage meltdown - which took out mortgage backed securities - which took out the banks which created the situations leading to the mass layoffs of workers. The banks got bailed out. The homeowners who got mortgages they never should have qualified for or who never read their documents and whose defaults started the downward spiral got a modification program created just for them. But those who did everything right and suddenly found themselves unable to pay the mortgage they had qualified for through traditional underwriting (typically a traditional fixed rate loan) because they - through no fault of their own - lost their jobs in the chain reaction , were hung out to dry - collateral damage - with no program to help them out.
Like I said in another post - I love a Cinderella story - and like Nelson I certainly wish Ted well and I hope he can turn his life around - but it does make one wonder if doing all the right things has become the wrong thing to do. If only because it's dull in the eyes of the media and these days it seems the media makes the world. |
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Diane Havens Backstage Pass
Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 460 Location: NYC metro
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:14 am Post subject: |
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Even since the parable of the Prodigal Son was told, people have been griping about the unfairness of rewarding the "undeserving." Though, if you remember that story, the good, constant son was well taken care of. He just didn't want his brother who wasted his father's money and lived an unsavory life to be able to come back and have equality with him, no matter how sorry he was. Here is the difference. There are many prodigals out there waiting to be forgiven, saved, helped. Add to that those who have done everything right and are still suffering. And I don't know when the media was suddenly made God to choose who is rewarded and who is not. But really, it is not only the media -- it is all of us who are intrigued about the story and take interest enough in it to be talking about it still, weeks later. If there were only good in the story, it would not be interesting as every student of fiction knows. Let's hope this story inspires each of us to try and make a difference in someone's life, to lift someone up. That is much more important than whose voice is heard on a Kraft cheese commercial. _________________ Diane
Veni, Vidi, Voci
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Rognog Flight Attendant
Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 807 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:23 am Post subject: |
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Some people succeed and some people fail. Some get lucky and some don't. Some do everything right with nothing to show for it while others do nothing and good fortune falls right in their lap. Our overriding need to make sense of this and provide some level of order & comfort to our lives shouldn't discourage us, it should inspire us, but don't let it undermine all the hard work you have done up to this point.
Ted Williams is an aberration, a PR orgy, and probably won't happen again anytime soon. It should have no effect on your dream.
Now get back to work! _________________ Tom Dheere - The "H" is Silent, but I'm Not!
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SilverSurfer3001 Contributore Level V
Joined: 24 Oct 2009 Posts: 154 Location: Charlotte, NC
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:25 am Post subject: |
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My way of looking at things is to use the media as a barometer ... and do everything 180 degrees differently from how the teeveepeeple tell me it should be done.
It is hard work.
Anything worth doing is hard work, otherwise everyone would be doing it.
It seems to me that already Mr Williams finds himself up to the tip of his nose in life and it seems to be overtaking him quickly. Whose fault is that? Partly his; Mostly the Hollywood image machine that so willingly takes victims and grinds them repeatedly through the sausage grinder until only the strongest of souls remain. I hope Mr Williams has what it takes to do that. I fear that he doesn't.
It appears that the VO heavy-hitters seem to be contributing to the experiment by paying his SAG dues, and getting him representation at Atlas. I wonder about the motivation. Sorry - I just can't help to look gift-horses pretty sternly in the mouths, because anything worth doing is hard work.
Excuse me - I have to go put on my flame-proof suit now. _________________ Jody Silvers
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Darren Altman Cinquecento
Joined: 17 Oct 2009 Posts: 551 Location: London, UK
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SilverSurfer3001 Contributore Level V
Joined: 24 Oct 2009 Posts: 154 Location: Charlotte, NC
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:52 am Post subject: |
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I was just getting ready to post that!
That being said, it appears that the gift horse's mouth seems to free of any self-absorbing disease. Good on ya, guys!
Godspeed, Ted.
And to Entertainment Tonight, CBS News, The Today Show, et al: Give it a break! 'Kay? _________________ Jody Silvers
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Bailey 4 Large
Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 4336 Location: Lake San Marcos... north of Connie, northwest of the Best.
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:37 am Post subject: |
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Diane Havens wrote: | Let's hope this story inspires each of us to try and make a difference in someone's life, to lift someone up. |
Diane... I liked your entire post, especially the above. _________________ "Bailey"
a.k.a. Jim Sutton
Retired... Every day is Saturday, except Sunday.
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voice of vicki
Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 20 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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Having enjoyed your many well-expressed insights, I apologize in advance for what I add here:
I predict the Made-for-TV- Movie, The Ted Williams Story, playing now in my head...
the bumbling handlers, the morally bankrupt media suits, the ravenous agent, the plea for sobriety from TV and radio Doctor Rehabs, the well-meaning and compassionate voiceover artists in the LA lab, the disgruntled and divided international voiceover community, the beleaguered Williams family, the homely advocate for the homeless.
It is casting itself. _________________ Vicki Amorose
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jsgilbert Backstage Pass
Joined: 27 Jun 2008 Posts: 468 Location: left coast of u.s.
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe now Ted will have time to learn how to prononunce "Rock -o-fella"
Of course being the eternal realist, it seems that somebody had to take the spotlight off of Ted, before they realized that his story makes him out to be more like Fagan rather than Oliver.
Now we could shift gears. I say let's have a new reality show where we can take the 75 or so people that are behind making reality Voice over shows and put them in one giant wrestling cage match. Who ever emerges gets to put their variation of the voice over profession up there for the masses to ignore. _________________ j.s. gilbert
js@jsgilbert.com
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Lee Gordon A Zillion
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 6848 Location: West Hartford, CT
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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At last, Ted is finally receiving something of value from his brush with fame and fortune. I suspect that rehab and its associated professional help are things he's needed for a long time. Forget the macaroni commercials and free union cards, this is the gift that stands to benefit him the most. Now, maybe he really can turn his life around. _________________ Lee Gordon, O.A.V.
Voice President of the United States
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Twitter: @LeeGordonVoice
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cyclometh King's Row
Joined: 06 Aug 2010 Posts: 1051 Location: Olympia, WA
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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This is the first time I've seen that he's getting something of lasting value out of this. With the right foundation he can leverage the attention on him properly, but he's got to get in the right place mentally first. _________________ Corey "Vox Man" Snow
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Diane Maggipinto Spreading Snark Worldwide
Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 6679 Location: saul lay seetee youtee
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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vicki is #1.
and now, for the un-tour ... _________________ sitting at #8, though not as present as I'd like to be. Hello!
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