VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Charlie Channel · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject:

I'm available, full time. Very little VO work here. I get more modeling and on-camera work, but not enough to pay bills. A man's got to know his limits. I only drink two shots of tequilla for lunch these days. Breakfast or dinner is another matter. I work out of my house. My law office is in one bedroom. Studio in another. I mostly practice music, unless some client's messing with my time.

Lately, I've been doing personal VO stuff I wanted to get done a year ago just for fun.

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BBeen · Guest

In my head I always do the math on what it would take for me to do this full-time. I'm a dreamer but also a goal setter. My goal is to do this full time one day, in the meantime I need the full time job with health insurance. But one day, one day to paraphrase Harlan Hogan (I think) people will say "Get me Bud Been or somebody that sounds like Bud Been" Laugh

Were all allowed to dream cool

Mike · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject:

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Deirdre · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject:

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My only source of income since 1984.

Jim Barton · Guest

OK, OK.

Voice work has been my only source of income since...1969. The University of Illinois radio service. It paid a pittance, but also waived tuition and fees (also a pittance, even in those days.) Stayed there for a few years, then moved on to my first TV station gig, WCIA-TV Champaign.

Ah but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Jim

Philip Banks · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:23 am Post subject:

Entering into the spirit of the contest ...... That's all very well but I earn SO much more than any of you!!!! In a just world dances would be performed in my honour, a German opera composed to celebrate the magnitude of my income "Der große Geldmann".

Deirdre · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:14 am Post subject:

I thought there was a composition written as testament to your constant self-aggrandizement:
Die Fledermouth.

I have--on occasion-- been known to be mistaken, however.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:32 am Post subject:

That'll be the one. My suggestion was for an imaging based production - Mit Stings und whooshes. It's not self aggrandizement, everyone thinks I'm great and they admire the hugeness of my personality too. When I enter, people leave rooms in order to make space for it. Now that's what I call respect.

schaer · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:23 pm Post subject:

Johann Strauss would've enjoyed that version...I am sure of it!
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Edo · Guest

My story is more or less the same as Deirdre's... everything has to do with my voice, whether it's VO's or radio- and tv-stuff. I do however initiated another business (also in the broadcast industry). We started a press agency in 1999 to compete with the only one Holland had so far. We focused on producing final product, in our case custom newsbulletins for radio and tv-stations. We can be heard on 156 local and regional stations both commercial and public, as wel as 2 national stations in The Netherlands. Furthermore we service a station in The Dutch Antilles and two more stations in Spain and the Canary Islands. All of them in the Dutch language. We started in Flemish Belgium as well, so we're expanding a bit. It's getting pretty big now, we employ over 65 people. Furthermore we teamed up with the biggest names in the industry, like Associated Press, Reuters, Dow Jones and Infostrada Sports. This newsagency is in good hands by the people we hired... which leaves me time to try and not lose my voice :lol:

Still doing that voice thing on a daily basis on more or less every thinkable platform... I consider myself privileged for I'm turning 40 on the 25th of september with up to now 29 years of VO-experience... I got my first voice job at the age of 11, see?

CWToo · Guest

A long time ago, a guy who has been feelancing for nearly 50 years told me that a freelancer would be a fool not to have two or three income streams. This guy does voice overs, is a busy portrait artist and appears on TV shows (he was the regular judge on that Andy Griffith lawyer show).

So taking his advice to heart, I do voice overs and write/produce spots for advertising agencies. The two go hand in hand: voice over jobs have landed writing gigs and writing jobs have landed voice over gigs.

anthonyVO · 14th Avenue Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 1470 Location: NYC