VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Greengate · Joined: 27 Jun 2012 Posts: 9

Hello everyone,

I registered today - just wanted to say hi and that it's nice to be here. A voiceover artist I am not - not yet, at least. I'm one of "those guys" with the "nice voice", and I received such comments enough times over the years to eventually take a once-a-week-for-a-month voiceover workshop, by now, some years ago.

All I can say is that I don't think I have a "typical" voiceover voice (if there is such a thing, ha!). I have no studio, but I do have a very basic means to record - useful, at least, for giving a general impression.

I'm also shy and have scruples about what I would record and for whom. (According to the voiceover teachers in the workshop I attended, these attributes may preclude me from having success in such an out-there, competitive field. Fortunately, some years have passed and the internet and possibility of home studios has probably made it easier for people like me to get somewhere...maybe.)

Enough about me, huh? Just wanted to drop in and say hiya!

Cheers

Scott Lyle · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:06 pm Post subject:

Greetings Greengate. Lots of good information here to glean from. Welcome.

Scott

edit: I didn't put my name down the first go around.

Lizden · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:27 pm Post subject:

Hi Greengate....ummm...what's your real name...or at least the one that Witness Protection gave ya Wink

Welcome to the madness! Laugh

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Deirdre · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:21 am Post subject:

Glad you checked in! Good to see you here.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:16 am Post subject:

I should like to welcome new Bruce to the VO philosophy department on behalf of the faculty.

Greengate · Joined: 27 Jun 2012 Posts: 9

Hey everyone,

Thanks. Well, forget the screen-name, then. Just call me Raph. Dang witness protection program, always trying to keep things under wraps. Wink

Cheers

Lapianoman · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:44 am Post subject:

Bish · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:08 am Post subject:

Hi Not Bruce. Welcome to the... well, whatever it is (tell me when you find out, please)

Cheers
Another Not Bruce
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bobsouer · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:05 am Post subject:

Raph,

Welcome to the VO-BB.
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Bruce · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject:

Hey Raphael, welcome aboard. You have a great first name. Famous painters and turtles have been so monikered.

Now, if someone could just explain to me the PRE-Raphaelite movement in painting. How did these guys know that Raphael was going to paint someday and glom his style off of theirs works? "Hello, I'm Luigi, and I'm a pre-Raphaelite." "Yeah, and what makes you so sure of that?!"

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Bish · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks Bruce... that's going to bother me all day now!

What about proto-punk?

... and I guess pre-Raphaelite is... what's your dad's name Raph?

But the funniest/most annoying one is when they make a movie set in the early part of the 20th century (pre-1939) and the script refers to The Great War (1914-18), as The First World War.

Sorry... complete and utter thread-jack.
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Donna · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:01 pm Post subject:

Welcome, Raph - you'll find a wealth of great information here, but the real gems are the people. Glad you're here!
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todd ellis · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:45 pm Post subject:

hiya raph - welcome to the hoopla!
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Greengate · Joined: 27 Jun 2012 Posts: 9

Hey again folks,

For anyone in my generation - or perhaps older - you might note that I have the distinction of sharing my name with one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was always the recipient of identical, red-bandana-wearing, sai-wielding plastic action figures for my younger birthdays. Wink

imaginator · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:17 pm Post subject:

...that does it. from here on out, Raph brings the pizza.

(welcome dood.)
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