August 2022 Office Hours

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TIMESTAMPS

  • 14:09 I lost a lot of my breath control when I had Covid. Do you have any tips on how to recover it or get it back into shape?
  • 25:56 About demos & signing up agents or an agency: What is your process on who to send it to? (https://voicecastinghub.com/agent-directory/)
  • 29:14 (Added question from sending demos) About getting agents or signing up for an agency: Is it a common practice to have your agency ask you to sign up for Actors Access? (answered in 52:24)
  • 47:00 Do you do a commercial demo for Pandora?
  • 48:45 Union vs non-union agencies
  • 49:30 "I'm signed as a freelance with X agency." What does this mean? Is there a difference?
  • 55:50: How does Audible work? (booking audio book gigs) -- follow up questions about ACX (Audible's backend, the site where to sign up for audio book work)
  • 1:00:51 Follow up question on booking agents: Is is true that you need to disclose personal information/history to your agent such as sexual orientation?
  • 1:16:50 Finding agents: outreach (a comment on one way of reaching out to agents or using connections to reach out to one) -- how to get rid of the anxiety of using "connections"
  • 1:32:15 Audio Quality (Topic Presentation): getting the sound right in a recording, post processing standards (EQ, compression, limiting, normalization)
    (Comments after the topic presentation - not necessarily questions but more of sharing experiences on recording, post-production, and more)
  • 2:05:30 Carrie shares the feature of ConvertKit about her: https://convertkit.com/resources/creator-stories/carrie-olsen
  • 2:08:09 Carrie asks for feedback about adding segments in Office Hours - student highlights, topic presentations, Q&A, etc.
  • 2:29:40 Improv classes
  • 2:32:00 Carrie shares she is doing a workshop about e-learning in Atlanta next month (September), questions about VO Atlanta news and updates on its organization, if it's worth going (the VO Atlanta workshops), a briefer on workshops, how it goes, recommendations on workshops to go to, accommodations, and more
  • 2:45:00 Is there a workshop that is beneficial for multilingual voice actors? (VO Atlanta)

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Feel free to ask anything voiceover-related and Carrie will try to answer it in the next Office Hours.

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