Today was the season finale for the monthly luncheon series sponsored by the Ad Club of Western Massachusetts, a group I joined last December. I enjoy their events tremendously, always finding congenial people to talk to. Most of their gatherings are sit-down affairs, a venue I as a shy person find much easier than cocktail [...]

I’ve written on this subject before, and it’s a popular topic of discussion. My comments here deal primarily with commercial and narration demos. Selecting the right pieces for your voice-over demos is of critical importance, because these are the words that will showcase your voice. Producers will use the demos to help them find the [...]

Last week I exchanged some email with my colleague Peter O’Connell of Buffalo, NY, who had posted a request for foreign language voice-over for a piece he was producing as a gift for Freedom Radio in Baghdad (I sent him some German). Peter mentioned that he would be in Boston at the end of the [...]

Penguins are much less a part of our lives than dogs and cats or even skunks and racoons, so three movies about penguins in three years makes me feel like Hollywood is “constantly” thrusting the dapper sphenisciforms in front of us. March of the Penguins (2005) was a masterpiece, an unromanticized tale of the hardship [...]

A few weeks ago I learned via the Beanywood website that the Boston Filmmakers’ Collaborative was hosting a conference at Boston University on June 1st. The registration fee wasn’t in my budget so I responded to the call for volunteers, and spent a delightful and extremely long day greeting, smiling at, listening to and directing [...]

In any business that is service oriented, the customer is the most important commodity. Without customers, there is no business. If an existing customer is treated poorly, they won’t be a customer for long. To a voice-over professional, treating customers well is something one hardly thinks about, it is just so obvious a part of [...]