What is the best process for adding voice to your creations and what are the best practices for working with voiceover talent? If the budget allows for the added expense, casting directors and agents are still a valuable way to find the voice for your project. When there aren’t the funds or time to go […]
Best Practices
Vermeer or Veneer…Where Does Truth Lie?
Where does truth lie? If I were Seth Godin, I’d write a clever title about the nexus of truth and artifice… but I’m no such mastermind, so I’ll traverse more plebeian paths instead. I love art. I grew up going on archaeological digs with my family; back in the day when you could dig something […]
About Etiquette
Or, as in this case, a blog post I’d written in 2011 was kept by someone who enjoyed reading it, and reached out to tell me so 5 years later. I wrote about etiquette. It’s something I think about, in a variety of ways. Take self-promotion; for some reason, in our business actors are […]
Style is Sound. Not Necessarily Brevity.
“…’tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’? One tomorrow would suffice, but it’s the other two that have made the thing immortal.” E. B. White, the guru of the written word, responds to a query of conciseness. He addresses the eternal conflict between precision and flourishes. To add words, or not to add, that is the question. […]
Translation Please?!
We’ve all seen unintentionally funny translations on signs or menus, written by proprietors whose native tongue is not English. But what about same language miscommunication? That’s what this anthology is about. Creative people, writers, illustrators, designers, actors and voice artists for instance— folks in creative professions, are tasked with taking a client’s vision and bringing […]