VOICE FOR HIRE by Randy Thomas and Peter Rofe’ Book Release September 30th, 2008

The launch date for Randy Thomas and Peter Rofe’s book highly anticipated book “Voice for Hire: Launch and Maintain a Lucrative Career in Voice-Overs” is quickly approaching and will soon be found in stores across the US.

Whether a beginner thinking about getting into voice over, a part-time pro with a day job, or a seasoned professional, the authors promise that the book has something for everyone.

Following the release of the book on September 30th, 2008, Thomas and Rofe’ will be making several public appearances on their book tour including stops in Los Angeles, New York City, and Fort Myers, Florida.

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Beau Weaver Gives Tour of His VO Studio, Work

Beau Weaver is one of Hollywood’s busiest, and some would say hairiest, voice over talents, known for his versatile voice and work in the fields of commercials, promos, narration, animation and theatrical movie trailers.

If you’ve ever wanted to see the face of one of America’s most well-known voices, you’ll want to watch this candid, informative and entertaining piece, running just short of nine minutes.

Weaver, who tends to spend much of his time in his secluded studio in the hills of Ojai, California, made a video that brings you right into his studios in Los Angeles and Ojai, giving you a visual on where he works, his recording equipment, shares how he got started in the biz and even invites you to sit in on a live ISDN session.

To watch the video, you can go to YouTube.com or VOX Daily where you can watch the video and leave comments for Beau Weaver.

Source: VOX Daily

Audio Theater for the Troops, Neil Kaplan Needs Your Votes

Voice actor Neil Kaplan is a man on a mission, and his mission is to bring audio theater to the US Armed Forces serving overseas.

Find out how you can help!

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Voice Over There To Provide Mobile Sound Recording Studio for Emmys

Voice Over There, Inc., manufacturer of the custom mobile ADR trailer and voice over recording booth, has been selected by AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC to place its mobile sound stage, the VOT trailer, on location to record voice over packages for the live broadcast of the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards.

The VOT trailer, designed by veteran television Director/Technical Director, Amir Soleimani, is a completely self-contained mobile recording studio housed in a custom-made 7×14x8′8″ cargo trailer. Air conditioned and fully soundproofed up to -50dB, the VOT trailer will be parked just outside the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles for the Emmys broadcast.

Over the three days of rehearsals prior to the broadcast, celebrity presenters will use the mobile sound stage to record voiceovers. The voiceovers will be combined with video packages to be rolled in during Sunday evening’s live broadcast.

“The VOT trailer will give us studio quality sound on location,” said Ron Basile, Producer of the broadcast for AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC. “Having the mobile sound stage next to the theater is very convenient for scheduling our celebrities during rehearsals and assures that we’ll get network quality sound for the video packages.”

The VOT trailer will be hard wired to the production suite in the Nokia Theater and the recoded voiceovers will be fed to the profiles, a series of stacked hard drives, where on-site editors will have access to all the material.

The VOT trailer is independently powered by a Honda Whisper generator and air conditioned by a dual zone Fujitsu 18,000 BTU HVAC unit. The trailer is outfitted with digital sound recording technology including Pro Tools, Telos Xstream, Verizon wireless Internet, and top-of-the-line microphones.

The VOT trailer is also currently being used on location by the television series “Starter Wife” starring Deborah Messing. Parked alongside the shooting stage at Culver Studios, actors from the series can conveniently step into the mobile studio during breaks in shooting to do additional dialog recording (ADR). The mobile ADR trailer saves the production from having to schedule actors to travel to a studio on non-shooting days to record ADR.

“The difficulty of scheduling dialog pickups inspired the creation of Voice Over There,” explains Soleimani. “I wanted to find a convenient, cost-conscious way of accommodating talent in and around Southern California, whether they are at home, on set, or on location. With the VOT trailer, recording sound bytes and making them immediately accessible to post and production companies worldwide, has become a highly-efficient, one-stop process.”

For more information see www.voiceoverthere.com

Source: Broadcastnewsroom.com

Bryan Cox Added as Expert Voice Talent at ooober.com

Voice Actor/Comedian Bryan Cox is proud to be added as one of the expert voice talents at the internationally acclaimed ooober.com.

ooober.com which has been tagged by IDC as one of the top “10 Emerging Wireless Entertainment Players to Watch.”

“Our innovative technologies, creative market approaches, and market experimentation have poised us to have a big impact on the entertainment industry in many countries around the world.” Abbas Alvi went on to say, “Ooober focuses on areas such as mobile advertising/marketing, mobile search, mobile community, and mobile user-generated content and services. Adding the expert voice talents of Bryan Cox to our vast sound library will, I’m sure, turn out to be very advantageous for our customers”. His voice talents have been heard in Hollywood movies, animation projects, business narration’s and thousands of commercials.

Ooober Inc. owns one of the first global user-generated mobile content site, www.ooober.mobi, which will feature voicetones from Bryan Cox.

“Ooober is a fantastic young company and I’m very excited to work with these professionals. They treat every client with respect and that’s the way I like to do business. For a company of this calibre to choose my voice talents is really humbling” said Bryan Cox, CEO of Cox Marketing.

Cox Marketing and ooober inc. will be launching the first-ever “Request a Ringtone” service from ringtones.mobi and ooober.mobi in which anyone can request a voicetone in the impersonation of Doc from Back to the Future, Santa Claus and some other characters by sending a email to Request@ringtones.mobi.

His collection of voice tones can be found at www.ringtones.mobi/backtothefutureparody, www.ringtones.mobi/funnysanta and few more online mobile content stores.

Source: PR-Inside.com

Voice Over Community Invited to Reach Out to Don LaFontaine’s Family

Grieving members of the voice over community are being invited to send an email to the family of Don LaFontaine expressing their condolences to be printed and presented to the LaFontaines.

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Caryn Clark is the Voice of Hannah Montana Commercials

Caryn Clark, known as “The Hip Chick Voice” and a professional voice over actress in Fort Myers, FL, announced that she has been cast to be the voice in five television commercials for various Hannah Montana products. The commercials will be broadcast across the nation on cable stations such as Disney and Nickelodeon.

Caryn is the owner of VoiceChick Productions LLC, and has an ISDN-equipped professional studio that enables her to record worldwide. She has been heard on VH-1, Disney, Nickelodeon, XM Satellite Radio, and other television and radio stations, as well as web sites, across the nation and around the world.

Commercials include: Neopets, VH-1’s Rock of Love Season One DVD, Hannah Montana Fashion Collection, Charter Cable, AdoptFlorida.org, and many others. Media she works in include television and radio commercials, video games, web and corporate presentation narrations, and telephone messaging.

Source: Caryn Clark

Keaton, Benson voicing America’s Sweethearts Barbie and Ken in Toy Story 3

Not much is known about Toy Story 3 with the exception of a short synopsis given to the Wall Street Journal earlier this year: “Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, leaves for college.”

It has also been revealed that Barbie and Ken would also be featured in the movie.

Jodi Benson best known for the voice of Ariel in Disney’s Little Mermaid franchise revealed to the IESB this weekend during an interview on Santa Catalina Island for the release of The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning that she is returning to the Toy Story franchise to voice Barbie. You may recall, she voiced Tour Guide Barbie and Barbie on Backpack in the second film.

But what’s Barbie without Ken?!

Benson also revealed to the IESB that her Barbie will be cuddling up to none other than Beetlejuice himself, Michael Keaton, as Ken in the new film.

Keaton worked with Pixar previously voicing Chick Hicks in 2006’s CARS.

Also, because I know you are all wondering, she says that Barbie and Ken do not kiss…but they do embrace.

Toy Story 3 is set to release June 18, 2010.

Source: IESB.net

Voice-Over Celebrity and Author Rodney Saulsberry returns to his musical roots with the release of his new single, “Better Than Before.”

Voiceover artist Rodney Saulsberry has released a new single, “Better Than Before”,

His first album was produced by the legendary jazz bassist, Stanley Clarke. He also sang on the catchy tune, Hakuna Matata from the Lion King Movie Soundtrack Album. His new single is the first selection from his upcoming CD, “Better Than Before” that includes several other inspirational songs designed to uplift listeners and keep them in a positive frame of mind!

Rodney Saulsberry is one of the most sought after voiceover artists in the world. He is the voice of many commercial products that include, Twix Candy Bars, Zatarain’s Cajun Foods and Toyota Camry. He’s also the author of two bestselling books, You Can Bank on Your Voice and Step Up to the Mic.

In a recent interview Rodney stated, “Given the choice between music that brings me down and music that lifts me up, I’ll choose the positive uplifting music every time.”

He hopes that you will make the choice to purchase his new single and be, “Better Than Before.”

Source: Rodney Saulsberry

CESD Announces Sam Glick as New Director for Promo/Trailer/Voice-Over Division

CESD Talent Agency’s Los Angeles office announced that Sam Glick, former co-owner of Davis-Glick Productions, will become the agency’s new director for their L.A. Promo/Trailer/Narration/Voice-Over division.

As director, Glick will lead the division in pursuing opportunities on behalf of all CESD Los Angeles voice-over clients in promos for TV, motion picture advertising, and narrative work.

CESD’s partner and head of the Los Angeles division, Paul Doherty stated, “We wanted a real pro for this position, and someone truly connected to those who can make things happen in the P/T/N business and at the same time, be an individual of high integrity and one hell of a salesman. Well, we found these attributes and more in Sam.”

For 21 years, Glick was the co-owner of Davis-Glick, but decided to sell his interests and leave the producing world completely, so he could take on this new challenge.

Upon joining CESD, Glick was quoted as saying, “The opportunity to represent the many talented voices of CESD and work with such a fine group of agents was too good to pass up. I get to call on many familiar faces from my production days — former clients, former competitors, and even my former company–who are now my buyers.

Doherty continued, “Having Sam come to CESD is a true coup. This is the first time I’ve seen a producer of his stature and longevity come into the voice-over agent business. He brings to our company a deep, deep knowledge of our industry and producer and talent relationships that cannot be replicated.”

The arrival of Sam Glick also dovetails with the launch of the CESD’s newly re-vamped agency website (www.cesdtalent.com).

CESD has thirty-four agents in its two offices. It continues its innovative industry dominance through the multitude of changes brought on by the digital millennium.

CESD Talent Agency is one of the nation’s most prestigious performer representation organizations whose unique dimensions include offering performers complete representation for on-camera and voice-over commercials, print/fashion/runway, beauty, dance, hosting, animation and gaming, hosting, puppeteers, promos/trailers/narration, and radio imaging & TV affiliates marketing.

CESD also hosts an industry leading Theatrical/Film-TV Department representing many leading performers including some of the top young stars in America. And for 27 years its Young Talent Department has represented child and teen performers for commercial, voice-over, animation, and print businesses.

CESD was founded 45 years ago in Hollywood by the dynamic legend Bill Cunningham and in 1971, T.J. Escott joined the firm and brought it to nationwide prominence after opening the company’s New York City office and then by becoming company President in 1981. Both Cunningham and Escott are now retired. On January 1, 2005 longtime company executives Ken Slevin and Paul Doherty became partners and Cunningham-Escott-Slevin-Doherty Talent Agency was created. Slevin is the agency’s President and Doherty its Secretary-Treasurer.

Source: Jonas PR

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