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  Topic: How did you get into voice acting?
Bob Bergen

Replies: 14
Views: 4122

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:05 am   Subject: How did you get into voice acting?

My first demo SUCKED ASS. Maybe we should have a thread "Are you brave enough to post your first demo here?" Not a single agent was interested, but I persisted.

Buddy, MY first demo suc ...
  Topic: Tom Hanks Gives an Acting Lesson
Bob Bergen

Replies: 1
Views: 3562

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 3:44 pm   Subject: Tom Hanks Gives an Acting Lesson
Pure Meisner, which is the acting technique I studied for 2 years. This is the preparation all actors must do, including a vo actor in every genre of vo. You need to make choices. Even with directi ...
  Topic: How did you get into voice acting?
Bob Bergen

Replies: 14
Views: 4122

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 2:01 pm   Subject: How did you get into voice acting?
In high school I was a big fan of "Chicken Man" and everything Dick Orkin!

GOD I miss Radio Ranch! Some of the best written spots I ever worked on. And they were so loyal to talent! Di ...
  Topic: SAG-AFTRA strikes AI deal with Narrativ
Bob Bergen

Replies: 3
Views: 2927

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2024 3:58 pm   Subject: SAG-AFTRA strikes AI deal with Narrativ
To answer Mike's questions:

1) How would the Union ensure compliance?

The same way we ensure compliance with every union contract. If need be we file claims. Being that there will be signatori ...
  Topic: Voice Over Conferences
Bob Bergen

Replies: 33
Views: 11206

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2024 11:31 am   Subject: Voice Over Conferences
look at me coming in hot...4 years later!

On the topic of conferences, what would be the one to attend? If, let's say, you were only going to go to one of them every 5-10 years or even just one.
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  Topic: How did you get into voice acting?
Bob Bergen

Replies: 14
Views: 4122

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 9:20 am   Subject: How did you get into voice acting?
This is something I'd wanted to do since I was a kid. I had no idea there was a term for doing this or that it was even a business. I just knew I wanted to do voices for cartoons. I grew up in the ...
  Topic: Lifts
Bob Bergen

Replies: 6
Views: 3988

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2024 12:23 pm   Subject: Lifts
As non-union talent, I've never once been paid for a lift on the back-end like Bob; it's always been front-loaded/worked into the one and only rate I'll ever receive for that recording session, unless ...
  Topic: Lifts
Bob Bergen

Replies: 6
Views: 3988

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 12:09 pm   Subject: Lifts
Thanks Bob. Are the 'lifts' spelled out in the SAG-AGTRA rates then?

Couldn't tell ya. You can look at all the rate sheets, but they are pretty vast:
https://www.sagaftra.org/production-center/co ...
  Topic: Lifts
Bob Bergen

Replies: 6
Views: 3988

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 6:50 am   Subject: Lifts
Correct. And each lift corresponds with the contract or platform it is being lifted for. For instance, I have done commercials where the buyer wants to lift a line from one spot and put it in anothe ...
  Topic: Studio fee
Bob Bergen

Replies: 4
Views: 3468

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 4:09 pm   Subject: Studio fee
Zero! Having a studio is a necessity today in vo. It wasn't until Covid. It is now.

If a buyer has a choice between an actor with a home studio and an actor without one, the one with the home s ...
  Topic: Page Turning Read: What to do about p2p rates.
Bob Bergen

Replies: 8
Views: 4503

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 2:31 pm   Subject: Page Turning Read: What to do about p2p rates.
Oh, you can advocate for higher rates. There are just too many really talented actors out there happy and willing to take less. I tried for far too long to advocate for people to work union. Too ma ...
  Topic: Page Turning Read: What to do about p2p rates.
Bob Bergen

Replies: 8
Views: 4503

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:42 pm   Subject: Page Turning Read: What to do about p2p rates.
"Let those who suck at this take those crappy rates. The clients will 'get what they pay for' for the most part."

Word for word what union vo actors said about non-union vo actors 25 year ...
  Topic: Page Turning Read: What to do about p2p rates.
Bob Bergen

Replies: 8
Views: 4503

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 1:39 pm   Subject: Page Turning Read: What to do about p2p rates.
There is so much irony and humor in this article. First of all, P2Ps are there to cater to the buyer, not the actor. They always have been. Without the buyers, there are no jobs for the actors. And, ...
  Topic: ANOTHER A.I. Voice Stealing Job from LinkedIn
Bob Bergen

Replies: 12
Views: 3600

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:22 am   Subject: ANOTHER A.I. Voice Stealing Job from LinkedIn
25 years at anything is a pretty good run.

That said, I have to speak for me. Everybody here knows I'm not against the union ... I just don't see a place in it for me. 99.9% of my work is non-unio ...
  Topic: ANOTHER A.I. Voice Stealing Job from LinkedIn
Bob Bergen

Replies: 12
Views: 3600

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2024 6:05 pm   Subject: ANOTHER A.I. Voice Stealing Job from LinkedIn
You could go back 25 years and reword this to say, "Another non-union voice stealing job." This is just history repeating itself. VO is a good 80% non-union today. Twenty-five years ago i ...
 
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