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Tim Underwood
www.thewebvoice.com
How to be a Go-To Voiceover Talent
Thursday, 2-3:30pm
Intermediate and Advanced
Listen to Tim describe his session.
Intended for Intermediate and Advanced voice talent with an emphasis on those who work from their home studio.
Do you want your clients to love you? And we mean, really LOVE you!!! If so, you won’t want to miss Tim Underwood’s VOICE 2010 session.
Tim will point out some of the not-so-obvious skills that make great voice talents even greater, by employing a dose of constructive criticism coupled with an entertaining presentation that will focus on these three critical skill sets:
- Business Skills
- Technical Skills
- Session Skills
Tim works with voice talent of all levels of experience every day - and he’s amazed that most of the questions they ask have to do with performance-related curiosities:
- Should I get you a new character demo?
- Do you think I’m over enunciating?
- Did the client not like my accent?
Then again, there are questions like these:
- There’s a cat meowing, rush hour traffic, and a landscaper outside my home studio. You didn’t hear that on your end, did you?
- Oh… you mean a 10:00 am session starts at 10:00 am? AND… you’d like me sober for it?
- Sorry… I don’t have ISDN anymore. I can hold the phone up to the microphone? Will that work?
- I realize you told me your client was fairly straight-laced as a heads-up prior to the session. I think I’ll go ahead and say Jesus Christ and shit when I blow a line, anyway.
- What’s the big deal with my mouth noises? You can edit those out, right?
Granted, these questions do have their place and performance ability is very important when it comes time to turn on the microphone. But these are the kinds of questions that reflect on the actor’s professionalism and will almost guarantee the voice actor will not be invited back. Although there are just as many talents not invited back because of poor punctuality, the inability to listen or a 60-cycle hum in their audio chain.
Why let a lifetime of well-honed talent skills be obscured by easily fixable technical issues or a talent’s failure to sense body language (in our case voice language) over the phone?
The time you spend with Tim Underwood and his candid, sometimes humorous approach will be tremendously enlightening, giving you answers to questions you might never have considered asking.
ABOUT TIM UNDERWOOD:
Tim Underwood began his radio broadcasting career in 1981 and started his teaching career at age 19 in Portland, Oregon in 1984. By the age of 23, he was concurrently teaching at Benson High School and was an instructor at National Broadcasting School.
In the following years, Tim has been a keynote speaker for the Oregon Association of Broadcasters, the Vermont Association of Broadcasters and has made numerous presentations to high schools and colleges.
After 18 years in radio, including a stint at KGON/Portland as News Director by age 25, he left broadcasting to pursue his first love of audio engineering and production.
Today, Tim’s business employs voiceover talents from the US, The UK, China and no less than a dozen other countries. His company may be small, but his reach is tremendous with clients like Microsoft, Starbucks, BMW/Mini and Hewlett-Packard to mention only a few.
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