With a massive downturn in the radio and television industries, there’s going to be a deluge of voices looking for work. A lot of these folks will turn to Voice Acting. If you think that you’re “Radio Sound” will get you work, you might as well try opening a GM dealership in Pakistan. Things have changed while you’ve been busy saying “Here’s a thousand in a row”. Now there’re a million of guys, armed with a “Barbie” microphone, calling themselves “Voice Actors”. You might find you’ll need alittle help.
OK there's probably one so called VO (Voice Over) expert with a course, CD or book to sell for every one that makes a true living from Voice Acting. I place these "teachers" in a group that I'd call Communication Gurus. With that said, they are in a very specialised area of the communication field but IMO still should be considered in the field of "communication". You can see here that NOT ONE is listed on Communication Gurus. What are they waiting for?
If you're looking for a "guru" please be careful. Do your research, talk to people in the business, ask questions. More times than not ...these “gurus” all have the same information that's just change around abit and repackaged...but it's still the same old message. Sometimes you'll even find that some of these so called VO Gurus don't even have their own vo demo. Aim to be yourself. That way you can offer VO agents and possible clients something that’s unique. Put together a demo but watch out there are the sharks that charge an arm and a leg to put together demos for you. If you’d like some FREE help please contact me and I’ll try to answer your questions.
I’m a Voice Actor, Common Sense Advertising Consultant and Stand-Up Comic. Thanks for the read
Bryan Cox
email bigbry@sasktel.net
PS...The 2 things Voice industry really like these days..
1. Female Voices
2. The young “guy next door” non-announcer type of read.
Your Comments are always welcome
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
You need a Professional VOICE
If you’re running an online business, or you’re a speaker about business or maybe you’re business is that of being a speaker. You are a professional at what you do and people pay you their hard earned money to hear what you have to say. Does it make any sense to have someone bumble through your intro as they bring you up to the podium or stage? I’ve seen this happen time and time again.
We’ll record an intro for you with exciting music...that will show you off, listing your credits and commanding audience applause and anticipation. This intro can be sent to you on an MP3 and you can burn it on to a disc or we can do that for you. Then it’s ready to be played anywhere anytime. It’s yours to keep for as little as 25.00us
Other uses you might find useful
--Video Narration
--Presentation Narration
--Web sites Intros
--Phone Messaging
--Commercials
Using the same voice is all part of your overall “Brand”
It’s time you showed everyone that YOU are a professional
Call or email Bryan Cox of Cox Marketing for your custom demo today.
306-653-1523 or bigbry@sasktel.net
Thus ends the commercial
We’ll record an intro for you with exciting music...that will show you off, listing your credits and commanding audience applause and anticipation. This intro can be sent to you on an MP3 and you can burn it on to a disc or we can do that for you. Then it’s ready to be played anywhere anytime. It’s yours to keep for as little as 25.00us
Other uses you might find useful
--Video Narration
--Presentation Narration
--Web sites Intros
--Phone Messaging
--Commercials
Using the same voice is all part of your overall “Brand”
It’s time you showed everyone that YOU are a professional
Call or email Bryan Cox of Cox Marketing for your custom demo today.
306-653-1523 or bigbry@sasktel.net
Thus ends the commercial
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
CRTC "Don't know DICK"
The CRTC is moving toward controlling Internet in Canada. China does a great job of that too. On the verge if having a whole new internet IPv6 unveiled, you wonder about their timing. The CRTC should have absolutely nothing to do with the Internet. In my opinion, these men and women, kind of know radio, tv and telecommunications, and in my opinion they don’t know that very well either. So why would they think they could handle the internet? If the Government thinks they MUST get involved with the internet, then there should be is a whole government ministry devoted to to internet. That works with Canadians to make it better and more useful. It should be staffed by qualified internet people not bureaucrats. But if they start to play the censorship card like the CRTC does so well...shut em down. Please keep the CRTC doing what they’re good at, ruining broadcasting in Canada.
Here’s a list of the government appointed commissioners and a brief bio , but to find out more please visit http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/home-accueil.htm
I ask you to think about how many REALLY know Broadcasting. I mean worked in it, have a solid background. How many have worked with the internet from the ground up...really have an understanding of it. I’m talking about QUALIFIED EXPERTS in both fields.
Mr Finckenstein...You have a Judge
Mr. Arpin..You have a guy with only 8 years Broadcasting Experience before becoming a Bureaucrat.
Mr. Katz..a Telecommunications guy...but also in charge of broadcasting
Ms Cugini...a broadcasting Bureaucrat.
Mr. Denton...a lawyer
Ms. Duncan...she was a financial officer.
Ms Lamarre..Broadcast engineer with the CBC
Mr Menzies...Newspaper guy
Ms. Molnar...Customer Service Bureaucrat for a phone company
Mr. Morin..30 years as a journalist, but worked for Radio-Canada and RDI.
Mr. Patrone...a reporter
Ms. Poirier...a municipal politician
Mr. Simpson...a marketing and public relations guy
Mr. A. Morin...been employed by the Government in various departments, a Bureaucrat.
You tax dollars are paying for these folks to be the watch dogs of Canadian Media and now the Internet. This is like putting a 7-11 gas jockey in charge of GM. I can’t sing a note but I have over 25 year experience in Radio and Broadcasting, maybe I should become a singer and make records. Hey, I used to play them. The world of Media is changing at a very rapid pace and in my opinion the CRTC has out live it’s usefulness. Time to go. Time to be replaced by people that know what they’re doing.
Thanks for the reading my opinion.
Bryan Cox
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Here’s a list of the government appointed commissioners and a brief bio , but to find out more please visit http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/home-accueil.htm
I ask you to think about how many REALLY know Broadcasting. I mean worked in it, have a solid background. How many have worked with the internet from the ground up...really have an understanding of it. I’m talking about QUALIFIED EXPERTS in both fields.
Mr Finckenstein...You have a Judge
Mr. Arpin..You have a guy with only 8 years Broadcasting Experience before becoming a Bureaucrat.
Mr. Katz..a Telecommunications guy...but also in charge of broadcasting
Ms Cugini...a broadcasting Bureaucrat.
Mr. Denton...a lawyer
Ms. Duncan...she was a financial officer.
Ms Lamarre..Broadcast engineer with the CBC
Mr Menzies...Newspaper guy
Ms. Molnar...Customer Service Bureaucrat for a phone company
Mr. Morin..30 years as a journalist, but worked for Radio-Canada and RDI.
Mr. Patrone...a reporter
Ms. Poirier...a municipal politician
Mr. Simpson...a marketing and public relations guy
Mr. A. Morin...been employed by the Government in various departments, a Bureaucrat.
You tax dollars are paying for these folks to be the watch dogs of Canadian Media and now the Internet. This is like putting a 7-11 gas jockey in charge of GM. I can’t sing a note but I have over 25 year experience in Radio and Broadcasting, maybe I should become a singer and make records. Hey, I used to play them. The world of Media is changing at a very rapid pace and in my opinion the CRTC has out live it’s usefulness. Time to go. Time to be replaced by people that know what they’re doing.
Thanks for the reading my opinion.
Bryan Cox
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Monday, August 4, 2008
China is a BAD Choice
Sorry I used that word “choice” because in China that word isn’t used much. Picking China as host to the olympics was a bad choice. Now the best athletes in the world have to travel to an over polluted, over populated, information wasteland for olympic gold.
The air pollution is so bad that people have to wear masks as peddle their bikes. It’s no wonder that Chinese athletes do so well when they come to a western country to compete...they can finally breathe.
The chinese government has software that funnels all internet traffic and communication back to them for screening. Now the government has TOLD all hotels that they have to install this special software in their internet systems before the games. Get this, the hotels have to buy the software from the government and pay to have government installers come out and put the stuff in. All TV, Radio, and Newspaper media is also monitored extremely close as well. If the Chinese government hears or sees ANYTHING they don’t condone, that media outlet will be booted out of the country. So you can bet that NBC and all the others will be playing it pretty close to the vest, so to speak.
This is what we have to put up with from having the Olympics in China. Canada is hosting the Olympics in 2010 and you wouldn’t believe what going on in Vancouver. Trade Unions that are building the site are raping the government for more money!! Real Estate developers are doing the same thing when it comes to housing. Prices on just about everything have skyrocketed in the Vancouver area all because of the upcoming Olympics.
To end off, I just feel sorry for the athletes because they are the ones that are being used as pawns in this whole thing. The Olympics have turned into a money grabbing, political extravaganza!! What’s next a Taliban hosted Olympics?
Thanks for the read
Bryan Cox
If you’re chinese and reading this and take offence to it, you’re probably in in China. Be thankful that you can read someone else’s opinion. We call this...freedom.
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The air pollution is so bad that people have to wear masks as peddle their bikes. It’s no wonder that Chinese athletes do so well when they come to a western country to compete...they can finally breathe.
The chinese government has software that funnels all internet traffic and communication back to them for screening. Now the government has TOLD all hotels that they have to install this special software in their internet systems before the games. Get this, the hotels have to buy the software from the government and pay to have government installers come out and put the stuff in. All TV, Radio, and Newspaper media is also monitored extremely close as well. If the Chinese government hears or sees ANYTHING they don’t condone, that media outlet will be booted out of the country. So you can bet that NBC and all the others will be playing it pretty close to the vest, so to speak.
This is what we have to put up with from having the Olympics in China. Canada is hosting the Olympics in 2010 and you wouldn’t believe what going on in Vancouver. Trade Unions that are building the site are raping the government for more money!! Real Estate developers are doing the same thing when it comes to housing. Prices on just about everything have skyrocketed in the Vancouver area all because of the upcoming Olympics.
To end off, I just feel sorry for the athletes because they are the ones that are being used as pawns in this whole thing. The Olympics have turned into a money grabbing, political extravaganza!! What’s next a Taliban hosted Olympics?
Thanks for the read
Bryan Cox
If you’re chinese and reading this and take offence to it, you’re probably in in China. Be thankful that you can read someone else’s opinion. We call this...freedom.
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Monday, July 7, 2008
Want Success, just READ !!
The one thing I wanted as a kid was to work in radio. My dream came true. When I was starting out I asked a seasoned pro what I had to do to become really good at this new profession. He told me “Read, read everything you can get your hands on. Even if you don’t like the subject Read son just read and learn”.
I ran across this story at www.invisibleheroes.com now it’s your turn to READ
Jimmy was an abandoned baby. Mabel, a widow deep in poverty with two hungry children of her own. Washing other people’s laundry ten hours a day, Mabel earns barely enough money to keep them fed. To keep a roof over their heads, she works for a real estate man who moves her and the children from shack to shack to “clean them up and make them salable.” But poor though she is, Mabel can’t watch a baby go unloved, so she makes room in her home and her heart for Jimmy.
Throughout his childhood, Jimmy will wear old, second-hand clothes because that’s the best that Mabel can do. His shoelaces will be broken and knotted. He’ll never own a pair of skates, a bicycle, a baseball glove or a toy of any kind. But when his little town opens a public library, he and a girl named Margaret Mead will be the first in line to receive library cards. One day, as the pair are searching for books they’ve not yet read, the librarian says, “Goodness, Margaret and Jimmy, I believe you've read all the children's books we have! If you wish, you can start on the other shelves.”
Margaret Mead will grow up to author 20 books and serve as president of a number of important scientific associations, including the American Anthropological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She will receive 28 honorary doctorate degrees from America’s leading universities and in 1978, be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
As an adolescent, Jimmy hitchhikes his way from Pennsylvania to Florida and back again with only 35 cents in his pocket. By the time he graduates from high school, he will have visited all but 3 of the 48 contiguous states. In the Navy, Jim rises to the rank of lieutenant commander, serving on some 49 different islands in the South Pacific during World War II. Each night, he writes his thoughts and impressions in a journal.
“Sitting there in the darkness, illuminated only by the flickering lamplight, I visualized the aviation scenes in which I had participated, the landing beaches I'd seen, the remote outposts, the exquisite islands with bending palms, and especially the valiant people I'd known: the French planters, the Australian coast watchers, the Navy nurses, the Tonkinese laborers, the ordinary sailors and soldiers who were doing the work, and the primitive natives to whose jungle fastnesses I had traveled.”
The book that will emerge from Jim’s journal will be published as Tales of the South Pacific and win the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. And by the time he’s done, James Michener will have written more than 40 books that will collectively sell more than 100 million copies. He will be granted more than 30 honorary doctorates in five fields and receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. His cash donations to public libraries and universities will exceed 117 million dollars.
It seems a child can learn a lot by just reading.
Thanks for the read, comments are welcome
Bryan Cox
bigbry@sasktel.net
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I ran across this story at www.invisibleheroes.com now it’s your turn to READ
Jimmy was an abandoned baby. Mabel, a widow deep in poverty with two hungry children of her own. Washing other people’s laundry ten hours a day, Mabel earns barely enough money to keep them fed. To keep a roof over their heads, she works for a real estate man who moves her and the children from shack to shack to “clean them up and make them salable.” But poor though she is, Mabel can’t watch a baby go unloved, so she makes room in her home and her heart for Jimmy.
Throughout his childhood, Jimmy will wear old, second-hand clothes because that’s the best that Mabel can do. His shoelaces will be broken and knotted. He’ll never own a pair of skates, a bicycle, a baseball glove or a toy of any kind. But when his little town opens a public library, he and a girl named Margaret Mead will be the first in line to receive library cards. One day, as the pair are searching for books they’ve not yet read, the librarian says, “Goodness, Margaret and Jimmy, I believe you've read all the children's books we have! If you wish, you can start on the other shelves.”
Margaret Mead will grow up to author 20 books and serve as president of a number of important scientific associations, including the American Anthropological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She will receive 28 honorary doctorate degrees from America’s leading universities and in 1978, be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
As an adolescent, Jimmy hitchhikes his way from Pennsylvania to Florida and back again with only 35 cents in his pocket. By the time he graduates from high school, he will have visited all but 3 of the 48 contiguous states. In the Navy, Jim rises to the rank of lieutenant commander, serving on some 49 different islands in the South Pacific during World War II. Each night, he writes his thoughts and impressions in a journal.
“Sitting there in the darkness, illuminated only by the flickering lamplight, I visualized the aviation scenes in which I had participated, the landing beaches I'd seen, the remote outposts, the exquisite islands with bending palms, and especially the valiant people I'd known: the French planters, the Australian coast watchers, the Navy nurses, the Tonkinese laborers, the ordinary sailors and soldiers who were doing the work, and the primitive natives to whose jungle fastnesses I had traveled.”
The book that will emerge from Jim’s journal will be published as Tales of the South Pacific and win the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. And by the time he’s done, James Michener will have written more than 40 books that will collectively sell more than 100 million copies. He will be granted more than 30 honorary doctorates in five fields and receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. His cash donations to public libraries and universities will exceed 117 million dollars.
It seems a child can learn a lot by just reading.
Thanks for the read, comments are welcome
Bryan Cox
bigbry@sasktel.net
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
A Funny... Mac Ad ?
A perfect commercial for Apple. I was on a flight recently and we were sitting on the tarmac waiting, for what I guessed, was our turn in line to take off. The pilot came on over the intercom and said..”Sorry folks but we’ll be a few minutes. We have a computer problem and I have to shut everything down and reboot the computer. It should take about 10 minutes...sorry about the delay”. The guy in front of me pipes up in a loud voice so that the whole plane could hear...”Great he’s using Vista”. That gave me an idea, being the smart ass that I am, in a matter of seconds...I stood up in the aisle and said in a loud voice...”Hello, I’m a Mac”. Hey, I got a free drink out of it.
Cheers
Bryan Cox
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