Comments on: Volunteering Your Voice http://voicecoaches.com/blog/2008/04/volunteering-your-voice/ Voice Over Training by Creative Voice Development Group Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Larry Julien http://voicecoaches.com/blog/2008/04/volunteering-your-voice/#comment-54 Larry Julien Sun, 04 May 2008 21:01:36 +0000 http://www.voicecoaches.com/wordpress/?p=30#comment-54 Hi, David. Yesterday at the Voice Coaches marketing seminar (a terrific event, by the way!), a question asked of the expert panes was whether it was good to add volunteer voiceover recordings to a demo. The response was an enthusiastic yes! I do a lot of volunteer book reading and recording for an area public radio station's reading service for the blind and print-disabled. As a follow-up to the question asked yesterday, if I were to add samples of my recorded readings to my demo, would I need to be concerned about copyright infringement? Thanks for your time! Hi, David.

Yesterday at the Voice Coaches marketing seminar (a terrific event, by the way!), a question asked of the expert panes was whether it was good to add volunteer voiceover recordings to a demo. The response was an enthusiastic yes!

I do a lot of volunteer book reading and recording for an area public radio station’s reading service for the blind and print-disabled. As a follow-up to the question asked yesterday, if I were to add samples of my recorded readings to my demo, would I need to be concerned about copyright infringement?

Thanks for your time!

]]> By: David http://voicecoaches.com/blog/2008/04/volunteering-your-voice/#comment-53 David Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:14:09 +0000 http://www.voicecoaches.com/wordpress/?p=30#comment-53 Thanks for your comments Mike! Whether it's using your voice, or helping clean up a playground, volunteering should be on everyone's list. You are absolutely correct in your perception of the advantages of skill building for Voice Actors through volunteering. It's almost like getting free training! Thanks again for your thoughts and we look forward to seeing you at our event this weekend! Best Regards! David at Voice Coaches Thanks for your comments Mike!
Whether it’s using your voice, or helping clean up a playground, volunteering should be on everyone’s list.
You are absolutely correct in your perception of the advantages of skill building for Voice Actors through volunteering. It’s almost like getting free training!
Thanks again for your thoughts and we look forward to seeing you at our event this weekend!

Best Regards!

David at Voice Coaches

]]> By: Michael Lenz http://voicecoaches.com/blog/2008/04/volunteering-your-voice/#comment-52 Michael Lenz Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:52:45 +0000 http://www.voicecoaches.com/wordpress/?p=30#comment-52 David, I recently began volunteering for a local PBS station that has a program that reads local newspapers and magazines over the radio to individuals who are visually or otherwise impaired and who are unable to read themselves. I did this after I had gone through your training program, created a demo, and begun working professionally. There are wonderful volunteers in this program who have not had voice training, and who have no desire to be voice actors. As a professional voice actor myself, however, I view this as a great opportunity to hone my skills while at the same time volunteering to help individuals in need. I agree with you completely that volunteering should not be the place you "learn" the craft of voice-acting. If you want to be a professional voice actor, get professional training. Once you've done that, volunteering can be a great way to hone your skills and feel great about helping a good cause. Mike Lenz David,
I recently began volunteering for a local PBS station that has a program that reads local newspapers and magazines over the radio to individuals who are visually or otherwise impaired and who are unable to read themselves. I did this after I had gone through your training program, created a demo, and begun working professionally. There are wonderful volunteers in this program who have not had voice training, and who have no desire to be voice actors. As a professional voice actor myself, however, I view this as a great opportunity to hone my skills while at the same time volunteering to help individuals in need. I agree with you completely that volunteering should not be the place you “learn” the craft of voice-acting. If you want to be a professional voice actor, get professional training. Once you’ve done that, volunteering can be a great way to hone your skills and feel great about helping a good cause.

Mike Lenz

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