Texas Electricity Provider Goes with audio’connell
July 14, 2008
Irving, Texas-based First Choice Power secured O’Connell to provide the voice over for a series of commercials that highlighted the company’s price protection options to combat rising energy costs. The campaign included :15, :30 and :60 second radio commercials.
First Choice Power is a Texas electricity provider with ties to a 70-year heritage of serving the state. The company is one of the Texas’ largest retail electricity providers, offering competitive pricing and a variety of customer plans.
audio’connell Voice Over Talent is a worldwide voice over talent service featuring professional English speaking and foreign language male and female voice talents. Services include providing voices for commercials, animation, corporate narrations, broadcast voice imaging, audiobooks, podcasts and messaging on-hold (MOH) all of which are created for advertising agencies, media and broadcast production companies as well as both large and small businesses around the world.
The company also operates Voice Over Workshop, which provides professional voice over training to novice and experienced voice talent around the world.
Source: PRCanada.net
Alec Baldwin Narrates PSA for the Coalition of the Homeless
July 4, 2008
The “30 Rock” actor narrates a public service announcement “When All Else Fails“, released by the Coalition for the Homeless, a charity blasting Bloomberg’s follow-through on a 2004 pledge to slash the number of homeless New Yorkers.
Over footage of people on city streets, Baldwin recites statistics such as “over 40,000 New Yorkers will go to sleep homeless tonight.” A coalition spokeswoman says the spot will be televised on various networks.
The city Department of Homeless Services says the number of homeless people on Manhattan streets and in shelters is shrinking, which the coalition disputes.
Baldwin’s representatives didn’t immediately return phone calls Wednesday. The 50-year-old actor is an enthusiastic Democrat who often speaks out on political matters.
Source: Fox News
Miley Cyrus, Glenn Beck, The Blue Man Group and Frank Frederick to Light Up Provo
July 3, 2008
Just picture it…
The nation’s largest 4th of July celebration, Fireworks, Miley Cyrus, Glenn Beck, The Blue Man Group, 50,000 screaming fans (mostly under 15 years old), and one of voice overs’ favorite sons, Frank Frederick.
What do the people, places, and things in the previous sentence have in common?
Frank Frederick has been chosen to be the “live” announcer for America’s Freedom Festival at Provo, Utah, dubbed the Stadium of Fire.
Vacationing for a Vocation?
July 3, 2008
Ever fantasize about what it might be like to go into acting, run your own coffee shop become a chocolatier or work in the wine industry? Interested in finding a way to test drive a new career without losing a paycheck or risking the mortgage payment?
Missy Grohne did just that. She was working as a consultant in a LASIK eye surgery clinic, but she felt as though her real calling was in entertainment or acting. About 18 months ago, she saw a tiny advertisement about VocationVacations, a business that offers clients one- to three-day immersions with mentors in various careers and businesses. She discovered there was an opportunity to work with Kim Crow, a voice-over professional in Florida.
Grohne, who lives in New York City, was supposed to spend two days with Crow but ended up spending three.
“It was hands-on from the minute I arrived. She put me right through the paces and made me do it,” Grohne said. Crow also gave her lots of encouragement.
“To have someone so established and so renowned in Florida,” Grohne said. “She could have said no, but she said yes, yes.”
Grohne returned to New York with a voice-over demo tape and entered a professional voice-over school where she spent eight weeks perfecting her technique. Now she has her own burgeoning voice-over business. She hasn’t quit her job at the eye clinic yet, but she expects she’ll be able to do so soon.”It cost me about $1,200,” Grohne said. “It’s probably the best decision I’ve ever made in my life. … This was exactly what I needed — the kick in the butt. It got me motivated.”
Source: Courant.com
