The Buzz Magazine 30th Edition

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Having the right voiceover demo is the most important marketing tool for a voice actor. It’s how we show our range, skill-set and talent so that we can get agents and book work.

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Welcome to edition number 30 of The Buzz Magazine! As I write this, I can’t quite believe that we have produced, and I have edited 30 editions of The Buzz Magazine over the last 8 years. I am so proud of this magazine and the power it has as a platform to connect, empower, keep you all informed, inspire, and to give you an industry magazine to be proud of.

This edition has a travel theme to it. Travel is something I love, and it was a luxury that was taken away from us in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. I’m incredibly grateful that I have had the opportunities to travel over the years. My first big trip was when I was 18 years old and I went travelling around the world, mostly on my own for 8 months! I believe that travelling teaches us so much about ourselves as well as about different cultures, places and the beautiful world around us. When we do a voiceover script we travel through the scripts and take our listeners on a journey whether it’s an audiobook, corporate video, animation or commercial.

This edition is, as always, jam packed and we have an interesting feature all about the elephant in the room…AI. It is here and as an industry we need to understand it, how we can protect ourselves, how to educate our clients and more. You can read it here on page 30

Now that we can travel again and meet up in person, our VOND events are back. The VoiceOver Network Drinks are a wonderful way for us to come together, learn and be inspired. Plus, there is always some Limoncello flowing! The VoiceOver Network started as a small meetup group going to the pub in West

London, so it feels great to be getting back to our roots. You can see some of the pictures from our recent VOND London event on page 6 and VOND LA on page 52. Both events were looking at re-energizing your vo career, as well as celebrating VON turning 8 years old!

While in LA and travelling to an event, I interviewed my good friends Scott and Miranda Parkin about an exciting animation they’ve been working on, The Comet Casino. We were sat in typical LA traffic as they shared their fascinating and inspiring story. You can watch the full interview on the digital edition or read it on page 22.

There are so many great articles in this edition so it’s time to turn your phone onto silent, grab a cuppa, put your feet up and enjoy this latest edition of The Buzz Magazine.

PS I’d just like to say thank you to every one of you for supporting this magazine. Here’s to the next 30 editions!

Travel is something I love, and it was a luxury that was taken away from us in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. I’m incredibly grateful that I have had the opportunities to travel over the years.

I am so proud of this magazine and the power it has as a platform to connect, empower, inform, inspire and give our industry a magazine to be proud of as a united community.

RACHAEL NAYLOR CEO of The VoiceOver Network, Editor of The Buzz Magazine and Voice Actor

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AN EVENING EVENT TO RE-ENERGISE YOUR VOICEOVER CAREER

Our first in-person event of 2023 saw the return of VOND in London to celebrate The VoiceOver Network’s 8th birthday.

If you are wondering, VOND stands for The VoiceOver Network Drinks and it stems from our very early days when Rachael brought voice actors together to network and chat over drinks in a London pub!

As we’ve grown a bit (OK, a lot!) since those early days, this year’s celebrations were held in The Old Gallery in London and featured a very special panel. We were proud and honoured to welcome well known voice actor Marc Silk, voice over agent Simone Nylander, and casting specialist Abigail Longstaffe, who shared their experience and answered questions from the audience.

Thank you to everyone who attended for making it such a great evening and helping us to celebrate our 8th birthday in style!

Rachael Naylor Simone Nylander Marc Silk Abigail Longstaffe

Jasmine Yates, Patrick McKenzie, Brad Shaw

Karis Pentecost, Rachael Naylor

Mark Bernard, Simone Nylander

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Jenna Sharpe, Mark Bernard

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By Kymberley Cochrane

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DREAM Turning a Into Reality

(with a little bit of help from Norman Beaton & The VoiceOver Network)!

Kymberley

Cochrane shares how her dedication to improving her skills during the pandemic, helped her to achieve her childhood dreams!

Did you ever see the Gene Wilder directed film, Haunted Honeymoon?

It stars Gene Wilder, who also wrote the film, and his then wife Gilda Radner, along with a whole host of great comedic actors. The premise is set around a Radio Drama Company and it’s equal parts wacky horror and joyous comedy. It celebrates the golden age of radio dramas and the camaraderie between actors working together to create stories for their listeners using just their voice - perfect for us voice actors!

Fast forward many years and I settled myself down to rewatch the film, secretly hoping I would one day be a part of something similar. You see, I had entered the BBC’s Norman Beaton Fellowship, which is run by the BBC every year. Two (sometimes three) professional actors are chosen through a rigorous audition programme to gain a 5-month contract with the BBC’s Radio Drama Company (RDC), a company founded in 1939 - 1940 and originally known as The Rep.

The RDC has been home to many incredible actors throughout the years, all sharing a love of storytelling through one of the coolest mediums. Just reading about the history of the RDC made me emotional as I thought of its incredible legacy. The day I received the phone call to say I had been offered the fellowship, I was a sobbing, giggling, jigging, joyous wreck! I hadn’t slept the night before because I was so full of anticipation and excitement and all my emotions were super close to the surface. I choked out a huge thank you, sent up a few thank you prayers to Norman Beaton (what an incredible legacy to leave, thank you so much Norman!) and revealed to my family what I’d been doing for the past few months!

I’m writing this having just returned from my first week in London working on two amazing productions so I can’t reveal too much about what happens next. What I can tell you is how fun every single moment was. How kind and generous the entire Radio Drama department is - and how welcoming. I can tell you how proud I felt to wear my BBC lanyard and how I did many joyful, gleeful jigs to myself throughout the week. Feeling so incredibly lucky to be meeting and be working with so many wonderful people.

Continuously learning through VON, being a member of this awesome community, and taking part in so many fab workshops have all been so important to my journey

I am so grateful to have been given this amazing opportunity. This has been the accumulation of many years of hard work and sacrifice. I’ve been a working actor my entire working life. During the pandemic I shielded with a vulnerable family member, and was able to explore and grow my voice acting career from home through organisations like The VoiceOver Network (in fact my trip to London was my first out into the world since the pandemic).

Before I knew it, January was here! I made my way to Broadcasting House and the Radio Theatre with my fellow fellowship winner, Leah Marks, to meet the rest of the RDC. It was an eclectic mix of amazingly talented actors - many of whom had worked as part of the RDC before.

Continuously learning through VON, being a member of this awesome community, and taking part in so many fab workshops have all been so important to my journey as a voice actor. Every step you take to get better at what you do - even if it feels tiny - really makes a huge difference. So that one day, when the opportunity arises and you grasp it with both hands - you can sit down and watch an old childhood favourite movie and think to yourself - that’s what I do!

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SIGHT READING SKILLS How to Improve your

By Rachael Naylor Voice Actor, Editor of The Buzz Magazine and Founder and CEO of The VoiceOver Network

As voice actors, sight reading is a very important skill. It’s more important in certain areas like dubbing, audiobooks and e-learning but it is needed in all areas of voiceovers. And it is a skill that can be learned and improved on. If you are a busy working voice actor then you will be flexing this muscle all the time. But for anyone who is newer to the industry or who have taken time out and are coming back after a break, improving your sight reading skills is important.

So what is sight reading? Just as the name says on the can - sight reading is when you read something you haven’t seen before. You haven’t had a script to prepare in advance so you have no idea what to expect.

How can you improve your sight reading?

If you would like to work on your sight reading skills I recommend reading out loud all the time.

1 warn the people you live with that you are going to be reading aloud a lot over the next week or so.

2 Start reading everything you see out loud. Whether it’s text messages, text on the TV, the newspaper, The Buzz Magazine ……. Read it out loud

Remembersight reading is a skill that takes time to develop. Be patient with yourself, keep practising regularly and you will start to reap the rewards.

Some people will find it easier than others but it is possible to develop your skills so it becomes more natural to you.

This is a great exercise as you are not prepared and you don’t have to make it sound perfect. It gets your brain ready to sight read when you aren’t ready. It’s also good for your confidence to be reading aloud in front of family and friends. Yes, it might feel odd but it’s better to practise in front of them than in front of a group of advertising executives who are behind a glass window all looking at you and giving conflicting directions.

Remember - sight reading is a skill that takes time to develop. Be patient with yourself, keep practising regularly and you will start to reap the rewards.

As voice actors, sight reading is a very important skill. It’s more important in certain areas like dubbing, audiobooks and e-learning but it is needed in all areas of voiceovers.

Some people will find it easier than others but it is possible to develop your skills so it becomes more natural to you.

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By Rachael Naylor Voice Actor, Editor of The Buzz Magazine and Founder and CEO of The VoiceOver Network Founder of Elements Demos

So, what is an international voice? Is it yours, or is it someone who lives in your country who has a foreign accent? What about when you are working for clients in another country? Does that make you an International Voice?

This is something that came up as an interesting discussion at our VOND London in person event in October 2022, when I was interviewing Talent Manager and co-owner of ACM Talent - Marc Guss. He had come over to London from New York to be a guest speaker and sign copies of his new book at our VOND event. It was a wonderful evening where we connected, shared and discussed interesting topics. During the Q+A, we talked about British voice actors working for clients in the US, when they are still physically recording from the UK.

This is a hot topic of conversation and something that, here at VON, we are getting to the bottom of, with all the legal stuff like tax, visas, having an LLC etc., and we will be sharing more information with you all very soon. The main thing to know is that wherever you are physically recording for that client is where you need to have a legal right to work. So, if you are a Brit in the UK you can work for a client in the US without needing a visa, as long as you are physically in the UK when you are recording. And the same goes the other way around.

The main thing to know is that wherever you are physically recording for that client is where you need to have a legal right to work

But back to the international voices, the voiceover industry is a global industry. We get to work from our voiceover studios at home with clients all around the world. Doesn’t that make us ALL international voices?

I’m often telling voice actors to make sure they put where they are from and where they are based on their websites. It’s also important to add any interesting heritage you have and mixes of accents onto your website. These are important in a global industry, as you never know who or where someone will be when they find your website. They could be in the US, UK, Canada, Mexico, France, India, Thailand, Japan etc. Telling them where you are from and where you are based helps them to understand who you are and whether you

will fit their casting. It also helps with your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) if you give lots of info about yourself, so you can be found when people are searching the internet for a voice just like yours. And they are by the way, searching the internet for a voice like yours.

I also would just like to say how beautiful accents are, and we all have one.

‘In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual.’ – This is what google tells us an accent is.

There is so much beauty in being true to our voices and our heritage. As we all know the big word in voiceovers right now is AUTHENTICITY. So make sure you lean into that, stand tall and be proud of who you are, and what you represent.

I hope that wherever we are based in the world, we start to hear more accents on all of the voiceovers we hear around us.

I’m so proud that The VoiceOver Network is a truly global community and I always love finding out where everyone is from in the world. We can all learn so much from each other.

I believe that we are all international voices working in a global industry. So, I say let’s all embrace it, and lean into connecting, sharing and understanding each other in this beautiful world we live in.

We get to work from our voiceover studios at home with clients all around the world. Doesn’t that make us ALL international voices?

I’m so proud that The VoiceOver Network is a truly global community and I always love finding out where everyone is from in the world.

WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE OUR VON MEMBERS

Did you know that The VoiceOver Network has members all over the world? Although the majority of our members are based in the United Kingdom and the United States, we are very proud to also have people with us from places including Australia, Japan, South Africa and The Dominican Republic. In fact we are represented in five out of the seven continents!

As you can see, we are well on our way to spreading the VON around the world and bringing the voiceover community together no matter where they are based!

MY MOM IS A Disney Actor!

By Valentina Latyna Voice Actor

As a child, I used to pick up the house phone line and hear people, even family members, getting confused between my voice and my mom’s. That was my first VoiceOver gig - unpaid; pretending to be my mom whenever was convenient for me. Who knew that gig was going to start paying bills one day!

When pretending to be my mom, the last thing I ever imagined was that Disney would make a film inspired by my Homeland, Colombia; the most magical surrealistic place on earth. I remember having a callback after another one for a project called "la casita". When they finally booked me for the job, the call happened to be on my birthday…the locationDisney Studios in Burbank CA; and the

project: ENCANTO! An extraordinary masterpiece in animation, honoring WALT DISNEY 100 Years Anniversary.

Every character in this story makes the universe unique; every single joke is close to us. Even the way they treat each other and the manners, which are very Colombian, are the kind of things that remind me of my mom, always worried about the weather, and making sure I have homemade food and fresh fruits every day.

From that moment the Disney world was no longer just a magical experience lived through the screen, it turned into a place where I was creating characters

I am not an expert in music but the majority of us agree that Lin Manuel Miranda did a fantastic job with the music composition, collecting some elements of our folk music. Seeing kids all over the world and across all languages singing “We don’t talk about Bruno...” says it all.

Working as a voice actor on this project wasn’t about luck though and I don’t believe in coincidences.

As a child growing up in 90’s Colombia, Voice Actor Valentina Latyna never thought that one day, she’d be cast in a Disney movie that embodied the culture she knew and loved. Here she shares her experiences with us…

Working as a voice actor on this project wasn’t about luck though and I don’t believe in coincidences. I guess it was part of my journey to navigate this industry for about 20 years before giving life to an original animation character. As a Colombian born and raised in the 90’s, my childhood was full of colorful memories, full of friends, it’s where family’s your religion, food is gasoline for the heart, and the coffee (Cafecito) is the best excuse to make a friend!

...do you know what the best bit was (it wasn’t the payment!)…Seeing my daughter screaming from the top of her lungs “My mom is a Disney actor!!!”

I was surprised at having this achievement, but on top of that, I was in shock at seeing my memories on the big screen and hearing the directors Jared Bush & Byron Howard explaining every scene to me. From that moment the Disney world was no longer just a magical experience lived through the screen, it turned into a place where I was creating characters from scratch. What a cool job we have, don’t we?

There is a scene in Encanto that always makes me cry…(if you haven’t already watched the movie, I’m sorry for the spoiler but it’s definitely worth a look!). The way Disney recreates the displacement by the war is very sensitively done, they respected the symbols, the music, OUR pain. Don’t be surprised that our kids are no longer into the prince rescuing beautiful princesses. Instead, they’re asking questions about politics, social rights and global warming. (To all stepmothers out there - thank goodness we are not the recurring villains of the story!).

I had the best time in studio recording for Encanto, I made another booking with my agent AB2, got good press and made new friends. But do you know what the best bit was (it wasn’t the payment!)…

Seeing my daughter screaming from the top of her lungs “My mom is a Disney actor!!!”.

By Kerry Hutchinson Voice Actor

Convoy to

Ukraine

– and other openings

When the call came from Medics4Ukraine asking me to volunteer to help deliver one of their convoys to Ukraine, the deliberation to say 'yes' took a millisecond. The header image to this article shows us on our way one early December morning.

But wait - how many last-minute voiceover auditions or gigs was I going to miss by being out of my recording studio for at least 6 days? I cared not. Because this convoy was vital. I felt liberated by volunteering, exhilarated at being part of the fight back against the fact-bending, morally warped invaders. And emotionally lifted by the fact that the medical stores in the bulkhead behind me were going to save lives. Of course, I let my voiceover agents know I'd be out of my recording studio for this voluntary work, but the various P2P sites auditions would have to do without my submissions. And if that meant that another fortunate voice talent would land that well-paid gig, then well done to them. Meanwhile I had this kit to help deliver.

return leg, which was another thirteen hundred miles of driving along continental roads and motorways in blizzards.

Initially, noone knew I was a voiceover and voice actor in these international organisations I work for from time to time. So, I started gently suggesting that perhaps a promo or short documentary might help traction for their branding.

Eventually, after 3 days' driving, we reached the Ukraine border, and arranged onward transport into Ukraine, which I'll not detail here. Suffice to say, the 'trust and verify' had been done, and we knew that the specialist and other medical kit would reach those who needed it. Subsequent reports and imagery have confirmed this. Mercifully, the weather during the outward leg was sub-zero but sunny. Not so, on the

“Travel! Your money will return. But your time won’t” said a sage modern-day guru. I used to put travel into the ‘too difficult’, ‘can’t afford it’ or ‘maybe later’ boxes. Then I lost family members, taken unexpectedly, and realised that I had no idea what would be around the next corner or if I’d still be healthy tomorrow. So, that initial quote about travel and not getting your time back, started resonating within. Fortunately, my ‘B’ side job hustle, that pays critical monthly bills, also requires me to go abroad on contract. And such travel also presents opportunities. Correction - I actually have to carve them out. Initially, no-one knew I was a voiceover and voice actor in these international organisations I work for from time to time. So, I started gently suggesting that perhaps a promo or short documentary might help traction for their branding. After further explanation plus playing one of my demo reels on my mobile, opportunities were created and the jobs followed. Nothing new here of course - all very logical. But

“Travel! Your money will return. But your time won’t” said a sage modernday guru

sometimes opportunities for work can be found beyond sending endless marketing emails from one’s studio computer. I’m lucky and extremely grateful that I get to do paid work abroad in a specialist capacity. So travelling is a requirement for me. But even if on holiday you have chance meetings, you can’t know where such encounters might lead in terms of potential VO gigs. There is much to be said for getting out of your studio, doing something different and meeting folk

well outside our VO ‘echo box’ - even if it means not being contactable for a few days. You never know what encounters or unplanned exchanges can take place, that if handled skilfully, could lead to VO work for you. In conversation with someone new, try LEAP - Listen, Empathise, Agree, Pitch.

That’s not to say that targeted and researched email send-outs don’t yield dividends. I pushed out a stack of personalised emails in a big blitz two years ago - and last month a very well-paid gig came out of the blue from an unfamiliar sound studio abroad. I asked how they’d come across me and they said “You emailed us with your great reels in October 2020”. You never know what resonance you create with someone when reaching out, even if they don’t respond immediately.

I won’t repeat what has been said before about go-bag studios - the simple travelling kit you can take with you to stay in touch with clients, submit auditions and more. Going to and from Ukraine wasn’t a time to take such kit with me, but anywhere else, it’s fair game. I just have a MacBook Pro, an AT 2020 USB mic, Pro Tools 2018.12 on the cloud - and inventiveness when it comes to building that ludicrous-looking pillow fortski-sticks, ironing board, a second or third quilt, or even sitting in a hotel wardrobeanything it takes to get rid of the room echo.

I'm an expert at thinking I have real problems to face - increasing my audition hit rate, not foreseeing live direction connectivity dropouts, how to pay for rising utility bills, and so on. The little world inside my recording studio. All 'high-class' problems and none of which really are problems at all, when I step back from them and reconsider. At least I have a supply of gas and electricitymany don't. And no-one is shooting at me today, like they were in Helmand. And I have a dry bed to go to tonight, with hot food on the table this evening and tomorrow - again, a given, that too many others won’t be getting. So, see the wider world outside your studio if you can, seek those chance encounter opportunities, even if travelling means going to a regional business expo or joining your local Chamber of Commerce and attending a few open meetings.

What did I learn from getting out of my voiceover recording studio and into the world beyond the mic, beyond clients and scripts? That travelling brings you to new contacts, new environments, and, if appropriate to seek them, new opportunities. Even if it’s unpaid voluntary work. There’s only so much you can achieve from a keyboard and computer screen. And in ‘LEAP’-ing with their CEO, I’m now booked to do a Medics4Ukraine corporate. Which naturally I won’t be charging for.

So, use what time we have now - don’t be scared - JFDI - Just Flipping Do It!

even if on holiday you have chance meetings, you can’t know where such encounters might lead in terms of potential VO gigs

...sometimes opportunities for work can be found beyond sending endless marketing emails from one’s studio computer.

A Journey to Comet Casino The

Rachael Naylor recently caught up with Scott and Miranda Parkin while in LA recently to chat about their exciting project - The Comet Casino.

Rachael: So here we are in Los Angeles. Miranda : Beautiful LA traffic.

Rachael: And I am here with Scott and Miranda Parkin. And we are gonna talk about something incredible that you guys have created - the Comet Casino. So tell us about it because I think it's amazing.

Scott : Over the last two years, the artist, myself, our head writer Ed Yeager, and Swampy Marsh from Surfer Jack Studios (creator of Phineas and Ferb) began to take Miranda's original idea of a space casino and turn it into an animatic. An animatic is...

Miranda : Somewhere between a storyboard and an actual animation, so there's more than one mouth movement per five seconds. It's almost an animation, but not quite.

Scott : It's a template that they use in every animated show and every animated film, because animation is extremely expensive. Animatics are expensive, but not like animation.

Like Swampy says - you find out whether the jokes work, whether the story works, whether the visual bits work in the animatic because it's a lot cheaper.

So on a show like Phineas and Ferb or a film they might do multiple animatics for each of their films.

Miranda : Usually it's scene by scene. They'll take it apart and do an animatic for one scene and then be like, okay, that doesn't work.

Scott : So we enlisted Swampy and hired them to build an animatic, a 10 minute version of our script along with Bernie Petterson who storyboarded & built animatics for Phineas and Ferb, SpongeBob , Fairly Odd Parents, Johnny Bravo, he's got some Emmys, as does Swampy.

And then, as Swampy's a friend of mine, Miranda watched how to do storyboarding and backgrounds, and learn from a professional in a professional environment.

She's already pretty good at it but this was her first opportunity to do it, then Swampy threw a wrench into the thing by hiring her three months before the animatic started! So they were in charge of special projects at Surfer Jack and Miranda got to work on her own pilot there.

Rachael: Nice…now can I just take it right back to the start?

What I think is really wonderful is that voice actors are waiting for an opportunity to be cast in something and what you guys have done is create your own animation, so where did the inspiration come from?

Scott : Getting us work.

Miranda : It's all that, it's getting people work.

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So the inspiration just comes from everywhere. I love lots of animated shows. I think adult animated cartoons really speak to me though because I have kind of a childish sense of humor.

I have lots of attention problems so it was hard for me to keep focused, but I did it.

The inspiration kind of came from an original idea that I had about an Area 51 agent who gets teleported to a space casino, and then it just kind of evolved. We made it a mom/daughter story and then realized we couldn't write that.

So we made a father/daughter story...

Scott : When we invited another writer in he said, ‘you guys don't know anything about a mom/ daughter story. The mom isn't interesting’. And they killed off Lori Alan’s character in the first writer's meeting! So it wasn't just Miranda and I, it was somebody who's got a 23 year history in writing for television that said a father/ daughter story is much more interesting. So it was like ‘oh, okay, we'll listen to you’.

Miranda : And then it kind of evolved from there. I actually did about half of the rough animatic with Bernie. I would do some scenes and he would do staging for the other scenes that had more than three characters in them, and then I went over every single frame and drew and grey-scaled the characters

Scott : Wait a second. After you left Surfer Jack, about three months ago, you took the whole thing and said, “I want it to be all of my stuff, and I want to add characters, I want new backgrounds, and this is funnier from over here”. So almost every frame is yours.

Miranda : And my roommate Lauren helped with doing some great backgrounds, but I would say about 90% is my art. I just went in and did it all, which was really difficult because I have lots of attention problems so it was hard for me to keep focused, but I did it. Now it's 11 minutes long and we took it to the incredible sound engineer and amazing composer Adam Guttman.

And Tim West at Rebel Alliances did the sound

Scott : Donated - he just said ‘I wanna do this’. It was a lot of hours and that's a chunk of change. He did sound on Halo, Call Of Duty & lots of Star Wars stuff, it's a top notch studio and such quality …it’s why the sound on our pilot is just top notch . And then Adam Guttman is a wonderful composer.

Miranda : Yeah, he does music for the rides at Disneyland, like the Star Wars Ride, and he was just like ‘if you don't let me do this for you, I’ll be really sad’!

So the inspiration just comes from everywhere. I love lots of animated shows. I think adult animated cartoons really speak to me though because I have kind of a childish sense of humor.

Scott : I would say dark and stormy

Miranda : Yeah. But I laugh at stupid stuff, we like silly stuff. But I draw inspiration from all the adult animated cartoons that I like.

: And Arrested Development.

Miranda : And Arrested Development, all the live comedy. I also really love mid-century modern stuff, which is one of the big inspirations for Comet.

And since Vegas started in the fifties or a little earlier than that, right?

: Yeah, around the fifties.

Miranda : I took inspiration from that time of Vegas.

: So the premise is on a moon at the edge of the galaxy, 200 years from now, there is a band of oxygen around the moon and this was discovered by one of the lead character’s ‘dad’. They built mid-century modern hotels because he was in love with old Vegas and the rat pack. So around this moon is a 100 mile loop of casinos, clubs and restaurants, and everybody goes to Vegas from all over the world to cut loose, right?

Everybody goes to the loop and the comet from all over the galaxy to do that. So you have a constant influx of people and like Vegas, you know, in Vegas…

Rachael, you’ve never been, that freaks me out. Oh my God, we have to do a convention there.

But that's the thing, you know there's bachelor and bachelorette parties, corporate conventions. There are professional gamblers, criminals, politicians, the military, everything & everyone comes to Vegas! So we always have story stuff because this is the party planet destination for multiple galaxies….Vegas times a thousand!

Rachael: And you guys are both voice actors in it.

Scott : Yes. I play the dad. Now his consciousness has been put into a life extending automaton because he knew a guy that knew a guy and so, you know, you had to keep going.

And Miranda plays the lead character Harper.

Miranda : Right. So yeah, Harper is that kind of dry, thinks for themself, ‘go with the flow’ kind of person. She grew up on the loop where she developed this deep sense of street smarts to survive .

Scott : But you're cynical, dark...and non-binary.

Miranda : She grew up on the loop and has this innate sense of street. She grew up knowing everyone from the richest of the rich to the poorest of the poor, so she has a very worldly view on life. I feel like she knows a lot about a lot of things

Scott : I was asked to be divorced when Miranda was three. We have a lot of found family and when I was growing up we always had somebody living at our house that was either kicked out of their house as a kid or somebody getting a divorce. When Miranda grew up at my house we always had someone living in our guest house so for both of us we always had extra people living with us.

We always had extra people. And that's kind of how Miranda was raised through the voiceover community. When I moved out here and signed with ICM in 1998, I had her with me, you know, not in a bassinet, but very close to that.

She was a toddler, and I would put her in the lobby at ICM whilst I went into the rooms to audition. There are three different booths there, and the people that would watch her were Lorraine Newman, Billy West, Tara Strong, all of the people that ended up in our pilot because they all rooted for Miranda. As soon as they hung out with her and realized that she could draw, sing and had all these different gifts, they were

always interested and supportive, and they saw me doing whatever the hell I could to keep things together and moving forward. And they all have supported Miranda from the very beginning.

Comet is a story about a dad who wasn't present at all,and doesn’t know how to raise a daughter, he’s not there for her at all so that's a little different. Miranda designed all the characters in The Comet for all the voice actors who are in The Comet, which happens to be the A-list of all A-lists!

Miranda, go ahead, list them all.

Miranda : Gray Delyle, Tara Strong, Billy West, Maurice Marsh. Gary Anthony Williams, Mindy Sterling, Lorraine Newman.

Scott : And Daniel Ross

Miranda : and me and, you.

Scott : And when we asked, they all said the same thing.

Tara Strong was like ‘ it doesn't matter, whatever you're doing, I'm in’. And Billy's like ‘oh yeah, Miranda's doing it - I'm in’. She was raised in voiceover at ICM and DPN so all these people have been extremely supportive. And because we have that cast, it opens a lot of doors and it makes the pilot.

My friend Ed, who's our head writer and a 23 year veteran of Hollywood four camera sitcoms, showed the 90 Second trailer to his agent APA, which is a giant agency out here. Miranda and I are way out of our depth, we're in the lobby going, ‘oh yeah, I'll have a second cappuccino. Can we keep the Variety magazine?’. They saw it and said, why aren't we involved in this? We want to be involved with this.

So two weeks ago we signed with APA who also represents 50 Cent and Gary Oldman and Bill Macy and Mark Ruffalo.

Miranda : and I'm like 23…. so it ALL freaks me out!

Scott : Exactly. So it went from us trying to pitch people that have followed Miranda, people from Apple Television and Netflix and Green Portal to this agency representing us. Last week, the first week in February, it started going out to all big animation studios to try and get them involved before they take it to a streamer.

Rachael: Wow. It's incredible. I think what you've done is amazing and hats off to you both.

Scott : Really hats off to her. How many hours are you into this Miranda?

Miranda : From the moment of conception? I would say maybe 400 to 500 hours. I don't know, I lost count.

actors donated their time. I've donated my time to people that I really care about and things I wanna see get made, so don't be afraid to ask people and don't be afraid in your process to work for free for friends.

Rachael: But if it's something you believe in…

Scott : Exactly. Or a friend or somebody you believe in…help. And be willing to be helped.

Miranda : I would say make what you wanna see. I saw an episode of Cowboy Bbop, which is this wonderful anime that I just love. I don't watch a lot of anime, but that one I love.

I wanna make something that my friends like.

Scott : But it really starts with you because when this thing goes, we want to be involved for five seasons. And if it's not something we believe in, and makes us laugh, what's the point?

Miranda : Yeah, exactly.

Rachael: Well, I wish you both so much luck, and I can't wait to see it.

Scott : We're only an hour away from our destination .

Rachael: We could keep going. And we'll have to do another one of these when it sells!

Scott : And I'm into it for at least two hours and 20 grand.

Rachael: But it's that thing, isn't it?

The iceberg…

You can see what's on top, but it's all the stuff that happens down the bottom and all the dedication.

So have you got any advice for people who are reading this who are thinking they would like to create their own animation?

Scott : Absolutely, I'll say this. We've had lots of ideas. We had Jules Rules, we've had My Panicky Friend (which I still think is a great children's book). We've had lots of ideas. Write down all of your ideas and there'll be ones that rise to the top, and this one really rose to the top.

Take that one, invest some time and see if you can't flesh it out. Get friends, call in favors. We called in everybody, all those

Miranda : Yes, when it sells!

Rachael: Excellent. Thank you guys and good luck.

Scott : Thank you, Rachael.

Miranda

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MY JOURNEY AS A

TRANS

By Zee Andrews

Istarted my VO career in 2016 with the non-paid Casting Call Club gigs and I didn’t quite have the patience for an audiobook job yet. I was getting credits though not making a liveable wage from what I loved, but I was a Performing Arts student who was getting roles outside of college so I was pretty much surviving on adrenaline and euphoria.

I left college just before I turned 20 and, for the longest time, it felt like my career was going nowhere. I spent so much time on finding a day job to support myself that I forgot my passion. I didn’t really know where to look and there was something about finding paid VO work that intimidated me at the time. I was also dealing with a significant amount of animosity towards me around this time. I experienced a lot of transphobic heckling from people in my local area - nothing too serious but this is, unfortunately, something we trans people have to deal with on a daily basis, and I was just coming to terms with that.

I went through a bit of a transformation though, I decided to pick myself up, start investing in workshops and equipment, and began to knuckle down on my VO career. I went to my first VON event, GET YOUR GAME ON, in May 2019 where I was introduced to PCAP, which sowed the seeds for my later pursuits and gave me a taste of what it felt like to be welcomed into the VO community for the first time. Whilst I still felt a bit like a stranger to the community, I never felt judgment and was made to feel like an equal.

I attended my second VOND event the following February, just before lockdown: a small workshop with Neil Kaplan in London. This workshop opened my eyes to what I was missing all this time and gave me the drive to do even better (and this led me to becoming a member of the Voiceover Network).

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I spent so much time on finding a day job to support myself that I forgot my passion. I didn’t really know where to look and there was something about finding paid VO work that intimidated me at the time

I started seeing how much the VO industry loves this kind of flexibility and how trans artists are opening up a new market for audiences, consumers and clients alike

During the pandemic, I tried doing as many workshops as possible, buying as many upgrades as I could to really renew my mindset and get my career to where I wanted it. I started reaching out to independent animators and I actually got a role from my pursuits!

In 2020, I was cast as Moonstrike in the YouTube series, My Pride. Moonstrike was publicly announced as the series’s first trans character, and both the character and myself were embraced with love and support from the fanbase. I was finally being admired for my identity and my

art, and it became an addictive feeling. I loved seeing the fan art and animations on YouTube. We were both brought into conversations about transgender identities within the My Pride fanbase, sometimes with a pinch of transphobia here and there but I knew that as a trans or disenfranchised public figure (which I kind of was from that point), you are indirectly opening yourself up to be politicized in some way, even if it’s in regards to an animated fantasy series about talking LGBTQ+ lions!

Nonetheless, things started looking up for me. After the end of My Pride, I started seeing the warm embrace the VO community had towards trans characters and voice actors, and it started to feel like I’ve finally found my niche.

I began to stop getting so bogged down in anti-trans rhetoric online and started to really love my assets, showing off my masculine to feminine range, which I feel is my key weapon as a voice actor and nothing to be ashamed of. I started seeing how much the VO industry loves this kind of flexibility and how trans artists are opening up a new market for audiences, consumers and clients alike and that's humbling to see.

As for me, I’ve currently got 2 video game projects under NDA and my next big goal is to revolutionize the PCAP industry and bring representation to trans actors in this new frontier. How far will my career as a trans voice actor go? Only time will tell what’s in store for me but the future is looking exciting!

How far will my career as a trans voice actor go? Only time will tell what’s in store for me but the future is looking exciting!

I was finally being admired for my identity and my art, and it became an addictive feeling.

EXPANDING YOUR VO CAREER

Finding an agent can be one of the most difficult aspects of being a voice actor. How do you know what to look for and how do you stand out from the crowd? Leading Talent Agent Vince LeBica from DPN Talent has given some insider tips to help you navigate some of the more common obstacles…

By Vince LeBica

Talent Agent - DPN Talent

What are your first instincts on finding an agent?

It’s my opinion that when it comes to finding representation, the actor should vet the potential agent as much as the agent vets the actor. So my suggestion is to do your homework - find out who these agents are and what their specialty is. Remember, this is a two-way relationship where the agent sends you opportunities and it’s on you as the talent to book these jobs. It’s imperative that the agent trusts that you are doing whatever you can to perform competitively in the current VO marketplace.

Sending an email to agents:

Make sure to always direct your demo to the correct agent. If you are sending a commercial demo, then do your research and find out who the commercial agent is at that agency and send it ONLY to them. Most, if not all, agencies have websites that should list the agents and their departments. This is a common mistake that I see all the time. For example: I am a commercial agent and yet actors send me their animation demos. It’s a waste of my time and theirs.

Make sure to always direct your demo to the correct agent. If you are sending a commercial demo, then do your research and find out who the commercial agent is at that agency and send it ONLY to them.

You also need to make sure that you mesh well with your agent. It’s a partnership that can potentially last a lifetime, you want to be absolutely certain that you “vibe” together so that this mutually beneficial relationship can thrive.

Here are a few helpful (insider) hints:

Prior to sending out that email to various agencies, make sure your email is TAILORED to fit each agent specifically. Most agents won’t respond to requests that are blanketed. You’ll get an 80% higher response rate (in my opinion), if that email is directed towards a specific agent, rather than a “hey there” or “to whom it may concern”.

It’s imperative that the agent trusts that you are doing whatever you can to perform competitively in the current VO marketplace

Send the email during business hours and AVOID MONDAYS. Agents are inundated with emails, and by Monday morning, their inbox is full. My suggestion is to send them midweek around 10am which is a perfect time and will provide you with the best chance of knowing that they received it.

NOTE: Don’t expect an immediate response! Please give the agent time to listen to it. Give the response time about a month and then reach out to them if you haven’t heard back from them.

...make sure your email is TAILORED to fit each agent specifically. Most agents won’t respond to requests that are blanketed

career. You must first have a strong foundation in voiceover acting before creating your demo. Therefore, spend your money on taking classes and workshops first. Trust me, this approach will pay off in the long run. Prematurely making a demo will only be detrimental to your career advancement. If you rush to make the demo too early, you will have created a demo that only represents your unskilled-earlier years. If you put in the time with training, your final demo will represent your advanced skills and will most likely have a longer shelf life.

Understand rates and conflicts!

A large percentage of beginner VO talent will be working off online platforms and booking jobs (broadcast, non-broadcast, etc), which are unregulated with the rates mostly arbitrary. Therefore, if you decide to seek these types of opportunities, it’s vital to KNOW YOUR WORTH and to not undersell yourself. Once you sell your voice for a lower rate it’s a lot harder to ask for more money down the line. Don’t pigeonhole yourself to a lower standard just because it’s easy money! Once you make this mistake, VO becomes more of a hobby than a vocation. Use resources like rate sheets (available on many websites) to inform yourself of what things should cost.

More importantly, be prepared to knock out a “live audition” on the fly for the responding agent. If you have an “over produced demo” and you can’t replicate the sound, the agent will know right away and the tragic result will be that you have wasted an opportunity to potentially sign with that agent who obviously likes your sound. In addition, don’t prematurely write to an agent either. I see it all the time. I get a lot of folks that write to me that have barely taken classes or haven’t put the time into voiceover and it shows right away.

Don’t rush your voiceover journey!

Despite what you might think, the demo is not the magic key to starting a successful voiceover

When you see “in perpetuity” on your agreement, do NOT accept these terms. Remember FOREVER IS A LONG TIME - “In perpetuity” is the demise of our business. Everything you work on should have a term limit.

Know your “conflicts”—meaning, know if the advertiser (client) regards your job as exclusive and expects you to NOT work for competing products or services for the term of the contract. As agents, one of our key duties is to navigate this world for you. But you are a partner in this relationship and it is ultimately your responsibility to know your business, to know which companies you read for, the terms of the contract, how the spot is going to be used, and on which platform(s) it is being distributed. Tracking and understanding your conflicts could increase or decrease future earnings. Just remember conflicts exist and are big in this business, and they will potentially dictate what you make in the future.

it’s vital to KNOW YOUR WORTH and to not undersell yourself. Once you sell your voice for a lower rate it’s a lot harder to ask for more money down the line

AI has been a hot topic in the voiceover industry for a few years. It is now here, and the technology is moving at a very fast rate. We want to keep you all up to date and help you to stay informed so you can protect yourselves and we can work together as an industry to take action where necessary. In this feature we asked a few industry pros to give us their take on what’s happening right now.

-FRIEND OR FOE?

The creation of AI technology is not new. The first AI Voice was called Audrey, built by Bell Laboratories in 1952 but there is no doubt it has become a hot topic in VO in the last 5 years or so.

Disruptive technologies are also not new. They change how the world works, how we interact with it and how we communicate.

So we know two things from this 1

How we do things now will change and we can’t stop that 2

The world will move on and for VO, what we do and how we do it will change but it will still exist

We therefore have 2 courses of action 1

Ignore it, put our head in the sand and hope it goes away 2 Face it down, take appropriate action and bend with the winds of change

On February 5th, a little detail in the Findaway Voices contract came to light and stirred the pot.

And in the UK, Equity continues to work to protect members.

Well done Equity!

And the good news?

There are real opportunities for career growth and not all the AI voice creators are ‘bad guys’.

You may, or may not, know that I have already created an ‘Ian Russell’ voice clone with a provider who gives me control over the types of work my ‘clone ‘ can do, who negotiates appropriate buyout and usage and gives me access to work that, as a human, I’d struggle to do. For me that is a win-win.

So the bottom line for me is don’t plop your head in the sand ignoring the issue or hoping it will go away.

LIFT YOUR HEAD HIGH.

Be aware of the risks and consequences and be willing to stand up for yourself. But also be aware of the opportunities change brings and position yourself to take advantage so it benefits your career and your family.

Ian Russell Voice Actor

Be aware of the risks and consequences and be willing to stand up for yourself. But also be aware of the opportunities change brings and position yourself to take advantage so it benefits your career and your family.

...if you’ve signed a contract with a P2P, voice directory or been onboarded by a production company for regular work, now would be a good time to be re-reading those contracts carefully – and watching for any change notices regarding T&Cs.

where narrations are needed but "acting" is not really wanted or needed by the client, but rather straight reading.

There are ways to protect yourself legally to be sure that your cloned voice will supplement rather than replace your income however. Contractual language should be inserted where the talent owns the synthetic voice and the recordings used to produce the voice, and the talent should be paid a

Rob Sciglimpaglia Voice Actor & Attorney

In any event, this technology is new and unknown so of course it is going to cause fear and confusion, but once things start to take root and bloom, talent will find that this new technology will be something to embrace rather than shun.

PERSPECTIVE A VOICEOVER

AI

is a strange thing that we are all involved in right now.

Is it a blessing or a curse?

I love our industry and I’m grateful every single day to be able to call myself a voice actor, but things change and change can be very scary. AI is here and it’s important that we all talk about it and make sure we understand what it is and how we can protect ourselves. There is some great information out there and I know that Equity and Sag Aftra are working hard to protect voice actors around the world.

I do believe that there will be areas of our industry that are going to be hit harder than others. I believe the lower end voiceover work will be the area that will most likely go to AI. People who want to have a cheap option and aren’t bothered about quality. But there are also areas of our industry that I think are always going to need a talented voice actor like commercials, video games, animation and audiobooks.

As voice actors we need to make sure that we are the best voice actors we can be. We can do this by continuing to train and stay on top of our skills, ensuring we keep informed and making sure that we are checking all of our contracts so we are protected.

If you would like to share your thoughts on AI and what’s happening please email me rachael@thevoiceovernetwork.org

By Rachael Naylor Voice Actor, Editor of The Buzz Magazine and Founder and CEO of The VoiceOver Network, Founder of Elements Demos

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World In an

In a world where hatred and fear rule supreme, where lethargy and despair seem rampant, where anger and judgment fuel division, and hopelessness steals our innocence… there are Saviours among us, ready to fight… these are the Storytellers!

‘I HEAR DEAD PEOPLE TALKING’, has become the joke amidst the Voice circles these days.

By Elley Ray Hennessy Actress, Writer, Voice Director & Coach

Communication is the HUMAN Connection! It is the one thing that ignites us, excites us and stimulates us. We long to sit around fires, singing, dancing and sharing fable. Communication awakens us to our greatest potential; to live with more clarity, purpose and passion. It helps us authenticate our innate desire to invent, to create, to express and ultimately to inspire others.

With the advent of technology, I have watched our world lose its celebration of creative expression and ‘the team spirit’ required to magic it. We have lost ourselves inside the almighty digital devices, which anesthetize us with the latest and greatest distractions, thus, our communication skills are no longer required. We sit together silently, staring listlessly, into our phones, swiping mindlessly, searching for connections, trying to feed our insatiable need to feel.

You can work from home in your PJ’s, all you need is a microphone, interface and an acoustically treated closet and VOILA! Get on a P2P site, maybe score an agent or 2, search online, that’s so doable right?!

NO, there is no ‘I’ in TEAM! With the advent of Home Studios, the Voice Actor has taken on ALL the jobs; director, actor, technician, studio, writer! Hell, you can self-tape auditions, submit and Source Connect with clients once you get the job and never have to meet anyone in person. Thus, the death of communication, the human connection or the demise of the true storyteller.

Where is the Fun in that?

This is where we lose the HEROS! Media is buzzing with predictions about what the future will look like, how remote work will affect us and whether automation will ultimately replace us. Of course A.I. will replace us, lol! Humanity has lost its connection to each other.

Communication is the HUMAN Connection! It is the one thing that ignites us, excites us and stimulates us.

Continuously learning through VON, being a member of this awesome community, and taking part in so many fab workshops have all been so important to my journey

Every breakdown says, “We want a real person, likeable and relatable. No announcer.” However, everything you hear on the radio, TV, internet etc. IS the announcer, a display, a delivery, a performance, a reading. We have lost our ability to express with one another because we have forgotten WE ARE THE HEROES. There is no Response-Driven dialogue with opinion and discovery anymore because the VA is lost in the script, regurgitating words using a VOICE not a feeling or need to heal! It is empty just like we are on our devices. A vicious circle!

The most important character in every story being told is THE AUDIENCE, who we forget is even there and we the only reason we open our mouths to speak; to inspire an audience and to help uplift humanity, not make a buck or two digitally. Communication started sitting around the radio back or devices, only a simple storytime that everyone shared in order to feel connected! We, as storytellers, must recreate the hero in every story, not only putting the audience first but following three simple ingredients.

1 JOY. Fifteen minutes of laughter is equal to 2 hours of sleep! GET YOUR GIGGLE ON!

2 LOVE It makes the world go round. Love More-wide Open-Fearlessly giving!

3 RISK . We fear it! Release your fear and desire to do it right. Push the boundaries and find yourself. Risk being You!

4 PLAY. Play, Play, Play - if you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right!

NO A.I. or digital device can laugh until tears stream down its face, or take someone’s breath away, or shudder with emotional pride and humility and gush ridiculous, mushy, adorable love, or simply land a truthful, heartfelt warmth, while alchemically turning simple digits on a page (words) into magical moments that ignite, excite and delight an audience. Yes, wake up dear fireflies, there is much work to do to bring your true champion selves back to reality. Go to the temple (your studio) and give the prayer (your story/script) to the people and we can all connect, celebrate and overpower technology, and keep the false front of automation from our glorious field! This is our GAME.

JOY+LOVE+RISK=PLAY

“In A world” and we fight to keep the human connection alive through communication! The Heroes always WIN!

NO, there is no ‘I’ in TEAM! With the advent of Home Studios, the Voice Actor has taken on ALL the jobs; director, actor, technician, studio, writer! Hell, you can self-tape auditions, submit and Source Connect with clients once you get the job and never have to meet anyone in person.

Where did it all begin?

Liquid Violet was started back in 2011 and acquired by Keywords Studios in 2014. The company was set up primarily to project manage localisation for games clients, but it grew to include casting and English voice origination, and once the studios were built in 2018 the offering was expanded to include UK English dubbing and voice production for animated TV series and features.

Where are you based?

We are next to the Donmar Warehouse theatre on Earlham Street, Covent Garden, in the heart of London’s West End.

What services do you offer?

We offer voice casting, talent negotiations, dialogue recording, and postproduction for video games and animated shows, as well as facial capture, dubbing, and ADR. Being part of a collective, we can also facilitate remote and international recording, localisation, access services, script polishing and adaptation, music services, sound and voice design and implementation. Anything audio, basically – although we have recently done a spot of in-vision casting too!

Who have you worked with? What games etc?

We’ve had the privilege of working with a host of AAA clients including Blizzard, Riot, Ubisoft, 2K, Square Enix, Frognation, and Nintendo on properties such as World of Warcraft, Overwatch, League of Legends, Valorant, Xenoblade Chronicles, Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Arcane, as well as with SVOD clients like Netflix.

Is there anything else you’d like to share?

2023 is going to be a year of levelling up for Liquid Violet! We’re in the process of building two new studios, one of which will be a large, flagship room for ensemble recordings and performance capture. We’re seeing increasing crossover of gaming and TV/Film IP, with many devs and publishers working with producers, streaming platforms, and distributors (and vice versa) to bring their characters and worlds to a wider audience. At Liquid Violet, we believe stories can change the world, regardless of platform, and we love the intersections. We always want to collaborate with creatives who are pushing the envelope when it comes to immersive storytelling.

We always want to collaborate with creatives who are pushing the envelope when it comes to immersive storytelling.

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Diversity

Hi there, my name is Mark Bernard and I’m a mature Actor, Voice Actor and Writer of colour born and raised in the UK. I come from a large Afro-Caribbean family, with wonderful parents who came to the UK during the Windrush days.

The idea of culture in the media jolted me to produce my first children’s book, then Audiobook, which I will delve into later.

I discovered voiceover when working on a radio project whilst training at the ‘Guildford School of Acting’. I received great training in the varying aspects of voice, breathing and physicality amongst the many training modules.

However, like many students coming out of Drama School, I focussed sharply on the Acting side of things, and it was only many years later after training as a teacher, that I decided to delve into the world of Voiceover. I completed courses at; The Actors Centre, Spotlight and with The Voiceover Network, where I made many friends.

What I learned later on was that the industry is huge and there’s more than enough room for us all and there are a diverse and broad range of project types. I see voiceover as an unique and boundless media, with so much room to manoeuvre and change, an industry that just seems to grow and grow.

After joining The VoiceOver Network, I embarked on various workshops from the energetic Ellie-Ray Hennessey, along with international voiceover workshops with Jason Birmingham, Simone Kliass, Scott Parkin and, more recently, Everett Oliver who offered lots of advice on phrasing, and bringing yourself to the roles you audition for.

And not forgetting the amazing workshops with Dave Fennoy at ‘GET YOUR GAME ON’. It was great meeting people from all over the world. The ‘Above and BeVond VoiceOver Weekend’ was also a highlight for me, where networking and workshops went hand in hand.

By Mark Bernard Voice Actor and Writer

I see voiceover as a unique and boundless media, with so much room to manoeuvre and change, an industry that just seems to grow and grow.

Working in the booth can be challenging but I have a passion for it and I’m always ready for a new challenge!

More recently, the Rachael Naylor VoiceOver Accelerator Program has really helped move me to the next level, with a combination of script workouts, one to one consultations with Rachael and my wonderful networking groups, it’s all come together to help me gain momentum in the voiceover industry.

I have worked on a range of projects from video games and web series to commercials and audio books. I can’t say I have a favourite, but I do love commercials and gaming, with all of the characters that go into them, and doing a voice over project for Andre Onona in Inter-Milan in Italy recently was a really enjoyable experience which I definitely want more of.

The voiceover industry is very diverse, but I feel that there is always room for more in this huge world of gaming, radio, dubbing and TV etc. I have noticed a huge change in the industry growing up here in London, after a spell in the Midlands as a young child.

Just before Lockdown, I decided to write a children’s book that I had been planning to write for a long time. I felt there was a gap in the market for children’s writers of colour, and with so much history, and stories and culture from my background to pass on to the younger generation, no matter what their culture and race, I sat down and got on with creating - “Frofro and Caribe, from London to Africa the Caribbean and Back”

I was also inspired to do the audio version and so I stepped up to the mic and recorded it myself. Yes, it was a challenge but I loved every minute of it.

Amongst many projects, my voiceover training spills into my film making, and my Short Film ‘Blood Type C’, which was made a couple of years ago now, meant that sound and sound quality were very high on the agenda, hence the film winning a couple of International Awards.

Ongoing voice training is important for career longevity. I love the idea of reaching out and touching people through voice and making a difference in their lives.

Working in the booth can be challenging but I have a passion for it and I’m always ready for a new challenge!

Best of Luck Everyone! Keep talking!

...the industry is huge and there’s more than enough room for us all and there are a diverse and broad range of project types

..Ongoing voice training is important for career longevity. I love the idea of reaching out and touching people through voice and making a difference in their lives.

VON Stronger Together CHALLENGE, #VONTogether23

As The VoiceOver Network turned 8, we celebrated with an exciting competition. The #VONTogether23 Challenge! Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the VON journey from a small meetup to where we are today, strengthening and supporting the voiceover industry.

'We are stronger together'! The VoiceOver Network has always been about helping, empowering, and supporting each other. As you know this is what drives all that we do here at VON HQ. The Stronger Together Challenge was amazing to take part in and it was unbelievably heartwarming to see our brilliant community together and celebrating our industry in unity!

Peter Rein @PeterReinVO

Thank you

Ali Cheff @ali_cheff

Voice actors togetherness! Guest in the booth for my break today the adorable toothless dorkie Bella ;-) #vontogether23 #boothpet

@ NetworkVO for getting me in the booth for #VONTogether23! It's a good reminder that every minute you spend moving the needle counts, whether it's 5 minutes or 5 hours in the booth, any momentum is something to be proud of. #voiceactor #voiceovers

Jamie Stewart @jimthevic

I've got my @rodemicsNT1. I've got my @WeAreFocusrite Scarlet . I've got my @NetworkVO membership. But by God I have booth envy after seeing yesterday's #VONTogether23 tweets

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The final day of @NetworkVO

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Across the week we all shared our booth selfies, explored each other's websites, and enjoyed everyone's demos. We were not looking for the best content but instead for the people who were the most interactive, encouraging, and supportive.

“A rising tide raises all boats”

The winner of the #VONTogether23 Challenge and taking away over $1000 of goodies was Ali Cheff.

Prizes included a READER TICKET to a workshop in 2023, a Source Elements Certification, a NEOM Professional USB Microphone from SE Electronics, and a set of Audio-Technica ATHCKS50TW Wireless Headphones.

We also had some incredible runnerup winners: Peter Rein, Chiara Marcon, Tom Antonellis, Jamie Stewart and Drew Campbell.

Each runner-up won a prize of a “WATCHER TICKET to a workshop of their choice in 2023”

Everyone at The VoiceOver Network is in true awe of the way the industry and community came together for this event.

#VONTogether23 was a great way to connect, so keep sharing, and liking each other's posts into this new year and beyond!

ALI CHEFF - Winner of the #VONTogether2 Challenge

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SIMON ALISON

How did you get into Voiceover?

While I was still at school a friend's aunt became aware of my performance skills and hired me to record a series of telephone advice lines. Following on from that I responded to an ad at college looking for a voice actor for eLearning projects and it went from there.

What is one thing you wished you had known when you started?

If I'd known that I was neurodivergent back then I think I'd have been able to take a more structured approach to work and developing my career with the right amount of self-care. My life was a rollercoaster of frenetic periods of very long working days that descended into burn out very quickly. Thankfully, with medication and therapy I can manage this much better now.

SIMON ALISON

Tell us about you

I'm an actor, voice artist and dad of two, living in the South West of the UK. Last year I was late-diagnosed with ADHD and was told by my therapist that I have ASD as well, which has helped make sense of my whole life. I was one of those kids who was always distracting the class with stupid voices, more interested in entertaining than studying. One very astute teacher encouraged me to redirect this energy into the school play he was directing, as well as joining the local theatre group and I have performed in one way or another ever since.

What has been your favourite job and why?

My first TV commercial - going into a studio to be directed from a creative team in LA was pretty exciting. And although it took over two hours to record a seemingly endless number of variations of two very short lines, I didn't get bored. Though the studio engineer thought it was overkill!

Who is your agent?

I've never had an agent for voice work - I've always marketed myself and worked directly with production companies and agencies.

What is your home studio set up?

I have a SessionBooth in my studio and record via a Neumann TLM103 / Audient iD4 interface into a MacBook Pro, editing with Adobe Audition and Izotope RX 10 Advanced.

What would be your dream job?

I became a gamer during the lockdowns in 2020 - playing through a number of amazing AAA games kept me sane and I'd love to be part of a huge production, even in a small way.

Do you have any hobbies outside of VO?

I'm lucky to live in beautiful South Devon with the sea and River Dart both only a few minutes away. My favourite ways to unwind are either on or in the water - taking my kayak out for a lunchtime paddle or just idly floating on my back really help clear my mind on busy days.

Advice that has worked for you that you would like to pass on?

Develop a very thick skin. Take negative feedback as a tool to develop and grow rather than criticism and, once you've auditioned for a project forget - about it!

I became a gamer during the lockdowns in 2020playing through a number of amazing AAA games kept me sane and I'd love to be part of a huge production, even in a small way.

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The Voiceover Hour: SEASON 3 -OUT NOW!

Don’t miss season 3 of The Voiceover Hour podcast which is out now! Each week we talk to top industry professionals and go behind the scenes of the voiceover industry. We talk to voiceover actors, agents, directors, producers and casting directors to hear their inspiring stories and find out what strategies they have used to overcome their struggles and achieve their success.

Our host is Rachael Naylor, founder and director of The Voiceover Network as well as an experienced voiceover artist.

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to Voice Acting! The journey from the Army

Growing up I always had this grandiose idea of making my family proud, following in my Dad's footsteps into the Military, ending up with a family and eventually retiring.

For 2015’s version of Jordan this would be the start of that amazing military journey and by 2019 it would already have crashed and burned.

The thing with the Army is that it's an all eggs in one basket kind of deal. That's the contract. So when that basket breaks and you're left with yolk on your hands or in my case PTSD - what direction are you supposed to follow?

The Army breaks you down during training then re-builds you into a Soldier so you can lead a full and healthy life in the army. My cap badge was the Royal Military Police and so, as well as being built to be a Soldier, we were being built to uphold

the law of the Armed Forces. I LOVED my job, but work Jordan and personal life Jordan always had to be separate identities. I couldn’t be me, fully, in both roles. Difficulties are always there in any role but seriously damaging problems arose from targeted and severe bullying in 2017 which unfortunately, after a long period of time and exposure, lead me to what I call the tightrope.

Walking the tightrope is what I describe as trying to balance living a normal life, getting on with difficult things and then the impending fall of succumbing to mental health. I've never been very good at balancing, the circus certainly wasn't on the cards for me anytime soon. So after a horrible battle, several therapists and prescriptions later, I wound up falling, all the way back into the civilian biome, except this time with PTSD.

I LOVED my job, but work Jordan and personal life Jordan always had to be separate identities. I couldn’t be me, fully, in both roles.

The thing with the Army is that it's an all eggs in one basket kind of deal. That's the contract. So when that basket breaks and you're left with yolk on your hands or in my case PTSD - what direction are you supposed to follow?

By Jordan McNaught Voice Actor

I was completely lost. No sense of direction, I wasn't even sure if I would be alive the next day

I was completely lost. No sense of direction, I wasn't even sure if I would be alive the next day but If this mental disorder had left my soul and personality in bleak smoldering embers, then the birth of my daughter and marriage to my wife Victoria was the spark to relight it. I was given hope, a chance to provide my wife and child with the support and protection they deserved.

A couple of years of being a dad helped me see my inner child once again, and reopened the personality that was locked away during my time in the Armed Forces.

It wasn't until I was enthusiastically shoving my phone into my wife’s face with a clip of a Mark Hamill voice over performance that she finally popped the question… “are you ever just going to give it a try?“

She was right. I had spent so long trying to please family and appease friends, who told me “that's not a real career” that I never chased after what I truly wanted.

Great; I have the tools, I have some cash, I have my wife and daughter who fully support me and now I'm ready to voice-act!

Googles: ‘How do I get started as a Voice Actor?’

Is there a club? Indeed.com? Oh my god, I'm way over my head.

This is difficult. I am a disabled Military Veteran from Scotland with a face for radio but zero confidence. Then an ad popped up one day for the Sonny Strait webinar, provided by a now familiar company called The VoiceOver Network. This was it, a sign. Sonny Strait was a childhood hero of mine so I knew then that I had to sign up and get my teeth stuck in while the chance was there.

It's been just about a year now since that first class with Rachael and Sonny, and I haven't looked back. This year I am looking to combine my previous life as a soldier and with voice acting and apply this to motion capture performance. The VoiceOver Network changed my life. I've worked with idols such as Sonny, Mami Okada and Chris Ragar to name just a few. I've developed a confidence in myself that I thought no longer existed.

I was selected to take part in Rachael's Accelerator Program, where I forged bonds with fellow Voice Actors from all over the world, who are always there to say “you can”. For the first time since the Military I have found a community I feel I truly belong to; one where work and personal life Jordan can finally thrive as one.

This is real. This is my life. I am now a Voice Actor.

The VoiceOver Network changed my life. I've worked with idols such as Sonny, Mami Okada and Chris Ragar to name just a few. I've developed a confidence in myself that I thought no longer existed.

#VONDLA23

On 17th February 2023, we held our popular VOND LA event at the legendary Apogee Studios in Santa Monica. It was an amazing evening event all about Re-energizing Your VO Career. The studio was jam packed with incredible voice actors, agents, producers and casting directors, all coming together to share, connect and be inspired. There was delicious food, the drinks flowed and we had a brilliant panel that included casting director Sirena Irwin, DPN Agent Trish Ryan, Voice actor and Demo Producer Alfonso Lugo, as well as being

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hosted by our very own founder and CEO Rachael Naylor. So much invaluable information was shared and the attendees were able to ask their questions too.

We also launched Elements

Demos at the event, the brand new demo production company headed up by Rachael Naylor. She has brought together an amazing team of sound engineers, script writers, producers and directors. It’s all about bringing together the right elements to create the perfect demo. More details about Elements Demos can be found at www.elementsdemos.com

The panel speakers : Alfonso Lugo, Trish Ryan, Sirena Irwin, Rachael Naylor

Troy Allan, Sara Mears, Scott Parkin, Mindy Stirling

David Salazar, Mary Lynn Wissner, Rachael Naylor, Trish Ryan

Dave Fennoy

Kimberly Crookshanks, Samia Mounts

Kia Joon

Raul Aldana

Melique Berger

Gemarie Torres, Vanessa Richardson

Sean Chiplock, Samia Mounts, DW McCann, Rachael Naylor, Kristin Aikin Salada, Kimberly Crookshanks, Sara Mears, Kia Joon

The attendees of the 1 day workshop with Rachael Naylor during the day.

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RACHAEL NAYLOR

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Founder, Writer, Host of The VOH Webinar, Editor of The Buzz magazine and Award-winning Entrepreneur www.rachaelnaylor.com rachael.naylor r achael.naylor

ZEE ANDREWS

Voiceover actor www.zeeandrews.com zeeandrewsva

KERRY HUTCHINSON

Voiceover actor www.kerryvoice.co.uk kerry.hutchinson.528 kerry_voice kerry_voice

SIMON ALISON

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VALENTINA LATYNA

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ROB SCIGLIMPAGLIA

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IAN RUSSELL VOICE ACTOR www.british-voiceovers.com ianrussellthebritishvoice thebritishvoic2

MIKE COOPER VOICE ACTOR www.mikecoopervoiceover.com/#demos mikecoopervoiceover MikeCooper mikecoopervoiceover

KristinVoice @KristinVoiceOv1

Learned such important legal information on the #vonwebinar with attorney and voice actor Robert Sciglimpaglia! Feeling much more confident about wise contracting with clients.

Jacqueline Duff - VO with #homestudio @JacqDuffVoices

Interesting #vonwebinar this evening with @robscig talking business contracts, NDAs copyright and more in #voiceover So informative! Am changing a couple of clauses in my own client/VO contracts right now!

Paul Adamson @Paulywoggsvoice

Another great #WebinarWednesday with @NetworkVO. Today's session- the amazing Julia Pleasants shares her perspective on the industry - casting for Disney TV, agents, and the industry at large. @RachaelNaylor always gets the best folks!

Nicholas Contreras Voiceover @NContrerasVO

Tuned in to a #vonwebinar with Disney Casting Director Julia Pleasants! Thanks for sharing your story on how you found your way into casting, as well as your tips on the casting process. Much appreciated!

Richard Savage Voice @RichardSavageVO

Awesome #vonwebinar from your man @TomDheere today on the @NetworkVO. Thank you for your time and for sharing your expertise.

Tom Antonellis

@tom_antonellis

Grateful to @NetworkVO for hosting @aaron_drown | @DisneyTVA for a workshop. 2022 I celebrated a #voiceover role in @DisneyPlus 's @RescueRangers so it was a thrill, honor & treat to read for Aaron given the 17 series he & his team are #casting on an ongoing basis #VONWorkshop

Fin Carter @FinCarter

A lot of fun and learning happened today at the @NetworkVO Bringing the Magic to your Auditions with Aaron Drown from Disney. Always amazed at the talent I get to witness in workshops! Thanks Aaron and Voiceover Network for giving us your time and knowledge! #vonworkshop

Goldie Perry @voicesbygoldie

So to be more specific about my previous tweet - the workshop was an amazing Video Game Voice Acting workshop with @RachaelNaylor and @NetworkVO # vonworkshop So glad I'm part of The Voice Over Network. Learned lots and had a blast.

Jamie Stewart @jimthevic

Thanks @RachaelNaylor for all your wisdom on the " #VO for #videogames" #vonworkshop Glad to find different levels to the comedy character. Glad I'm a member of @NetworkVO THE VOICEOVER NETWORK

Steven Jobson Voice Overs @JobsonVO

The time is now! Good morning :) Taking some advice from the latest #VONDlondon social, I've managed to drag myself out of bed early to work on my business and not in my business. I wish you all a great day!

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