Research Catalog

Title

VO : tales and techniques of a voice-over actor / Harlan Hogan.

Author

Hogan, Harlan.

Publication

New York : Allworth Press, ©2002.

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Details

Description

249 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

One of the country's top voice-over talents shares his secrets to success in this insider's guide to the voice-over industry! Not only does veteran actor Harlan Hogan offer a fascinating personal account of the crazed clients, practical jokes, and amazing coincidences encountered during his 25-year career . . . he also provides a wealth of tested tips for surviving and thriving as a voice-over actor! This indispensable guide features dozens of techniques to help readers train their voices, gain experience, make a demo, join unions, get an agent, and more. It also includes strategies for finding work in venues outside film and television, including games, automated telephone systems, and even websites. Actors, broadcasters, and anyone else who longs to make money speaking into a microphone will cherish this informative, insightful, and often hilarious glimpse at the business.

Alternative Title

• Voice over
• Tales and techniques of a voice-over actor

Subject

• Television announcing
• Radio announcing
• Voice in motion pictures
• Voice-overs
• Rundfunk
• Schauspielkunst
• Sprechkunst
• Sprecherziehung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226) and index.
• Includes web resources.

Contents

The Worst Voice in the Whole Third Grade--Talking Robots, Talking Rockets, and the Recordio -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Talking Inside the Box--Training, Technique, Tools, and Talent, or, the Four Ts of Voice-Over -- Stumbling Through School--Ronald Reagan, Radio, and a Whale of a Roommate -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Coining a Phrase--Spinning Words into Gold? -- Indiana Airwaves--Big Time in the Small Time, But Dick Clark Never Called -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Free and Not-So-Free Voice-Over Classes--From "Wanna-Be" to "New-Be" -- No Sale--Could There Be a Worse Computer Salesman? -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Storytellers of the Electronic Age--Ask the Right Questions, Tell the Right Story -- An Accidental Actor -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Radio and TV Voice-Overs--The Skills, the Opportunities -- Recorder's Revenge -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Long-Form Voice-Overs--The Skills, the Opportunities -- The Teamsters Made Me Change My Name -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Corporate Voice-Overs--The Skills, the Opportunities -- Wclr and the Big Bang Theory -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Character Voices and Your Multiple Personalities--The Skills, the Opportunities, the Misconceptions -- No Longer A "Wanna-Be"--Fast-Forward on the Right Track -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Other Voice Work--The Skills, the Opportunities, the Talking Beer Bottle Openers -- In July--Inside Jokes of the Voice-Overs -- Techniques of a Voice-Over: Flying Solo--Performing Alone -- Smack Dab in the Golden Age of Voice-Over.

ISBN

• 1581152493
• 9781581152494

LCCN

2002011722

OCLC

• ocm50243773
• 50243773
• SCSB-1271467

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library