VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Philip Banks]

1. How did you get started in voiceovers?
Back in 55 I was working out of a 5kw Country/talk/pie eating station near Wippunga Falls. I got the job because I was the only guy who knew how to work the Reuters machine and Gaylor the station chicken needed reuting about 3 times a day.

2. How do you find work?
Stalking, terror or blackmail mostly. Have a website and if producers don't give me work the photo's are publishing for all to see.

3. What do you like most about the industry?
Free pens and the fan mail. Also the opportunity to get ignored most days on a global scale.

4. What do you like the least?
Having to work nights as a Maid for 9 hookers working out of a basement in Huntly to make ends meet. If you want them to make ends meet they charge an extra twenty.

[Spacegypsy]

1. How did you get started in voiceovers?
My dad used to force us to make audio recordings from when I was as young as 2 years old. Back then (1963) it was really quite something to have a 2-track recorder. I still have the recordings. I guess getting used to the sound of your own voice at an early age helped.

2. How do you find work?
I'm very bad and do very little marketing, so work seems to find me.
Up to end of last year, this was working awfully well, but this year has been excruciatingly slow - so, I will have to start doing the dreaded marketing.

3. What do you like most about the industry?
Flexibility, mostly stress-free, being home. Great people, VO-BB, it's fun.

4. What do you like the least?
I can't think of anything I don't like really!
Oh, paperwork, chasing up money.

[jrodriguez315]

1. How did you get started in voiceovers?
When I was in my 20s, I was doing stand up. Mostly bad jokes and some impressions. One of my friends at the time told me I had a flexible voice and a good ear for accents and said I should go into voiceover. It took 25 years for that seed to sprout.

2. How do you find work?
My only real regular client I found on Craigslist. I am still searching through the archives here trying to find better ways.

3. What do you like most about the industry?
The chance to make a good living doing something creative and the possibility of never having to work in a friggin cubicle like a trained hamster (which is where I am right at the moment), and the chance to work with like-minded, creative people.

4. What do you like the least?
How expensive it can be to get good training and a good demo and how very expensive it is when you get not so good training and a not so good demo. Also how expensive it is to get all the different kinds of demos you need this days. Commercial, Audiobook, Movie Trailer, Imaging, Lions and Tigers and Bears, OH MY!!!
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Joe Rodriguez, Bilingual Voice Actor | The Voiceover Thespian Blog

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