Hi, my name is Roger and I'm a recovering announcer. (off mic voices: "Hi, Roger). I've been involved in TV announcing for nearly 30 years.
To achieve Voice Artist sobriety, I resolve to follow these twelve steps in the coming new year...2008.
1. Admit I am powerless over my burning desire to become a voice-over talent and without it my life is unbearable and unmanageable.
2. Believe that a
VO Power (not necessarily Mr. LaFontaine) greater than myself, can bring me to voice acting fulfillment and sanity.
3. Make a decision to turn my voice and career aspirations over to the care of the Great Voice Coach and enter all contests with
VO related prizes.
4. Make a searching and realistic inventory of my talents and abilities (ok, and business plan).
5. Admit to the Great Voice Coach, myself and colleagues, my career doubts and fears.
6. Show I am ready and willing to have Voice Coach remove flaws and impediments to a successful
VO career.
7. Humbly ask Voice Coach to remove any arrogance (unless called for in copy),or false modesty from my performance.
8. Make a list of all persons and entities that could possibly further my career and find out from them how I might better serve them.
9. Make direct contact with them by all means available and necessary, to offer my services, except where it might be harmful to my career or the audience.
10.Continue vigilance in maintaining a personal inventory of my strengths and weaknesses and graciously defer to the client or director, even if they are wrong. (could that happen?)
11. Seek, through continuous training and practice to improve my skills and my relationship with my Higher Powers (Voice Coach, Agent, client), as I understand them, striving to always keep up with the desires and demands of said Higher Powers and possess the ability to carry them out.
12. Having experienced the awakening resulting from the performing of these steps, to carry this message to all the
VO Forums and to continue to embody that "natural, real guy, next door delivery". Sincerity, that's the key. Once I can fake that, I've got it made.
Serenity Now! ( Director: can you say it again with more conviction and up and slower and sound like Jason Alexander? No? Sorry...NEXT!)
-roger