Produce or not to Produce the Audition

[CarynClark]

Why, thank you Brian!!! (blushing....)

[Julie Williams]

Harlan Hogan's teleconference with Dan O'Day was awesome.

[Robert Jadah]

Now, what would Harlan, Pat, Bob and the others know about small-time auditions?
They don't do them.

For real jobs: absolutely dry. You've enough to consider with being a voice talent; it's suicidal to try to cram production knowledge into your aud. With rare exception, you cannot match the pros they employ.

For site jobs: it's a crap-shoot. The $125 job is just as liable to go to the amateur home producer who tossed in a nice Backtraxx bed and some f/x to blow away Mr. Hawkinmawkin at the Peoria Tool Emporium as it is to go to a Patrick Stewart sound-alike.

Informedly Yours,

[JoeActor]

Originally Posted by Robert Jadah

For site jobs: it's a crap-shoot. The $125 job is just as liable to go to the amateur home producer who tossed in a nice Backtraxx bed and some f/x to blow away Mr. Hawkinmawkin at the Peoria Tool Emporium as it is to go to a Patrick Stewart sound-alike.

... except... those are precisely the type of jobs I DON'T want from on-line sources.

If I land a job from someone who needs to hear it produced, chances are the final price will be way under market and the client will be more difficult to work with. I'd rather submit dry, and if they aren't at a semi-pro or pro level, I wouldn't want the job anyway. Much less hassle with places that know what they're doing.

So, when the job asks for writer/translator/producer/engineer/foley/vo, I exercise my delete button.

But that's just me,
Joe J Thomas
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