Metropolis Integrated Media, a full service media production company, recently began construction on a new facility at 352 South 500 East. This decision to relocate comes after Salt Lake City officials chose the block between 400 and 500 South as the location of the new Public Safety and Emergency Operations center.
While a number of businesses are veing uprooted by this deal, the owner of Metropolis is making lemonade out of the situation. They're using this as an opportunity to expand into a larger, state-of-the art audio and video production center complete with a film and TV sound stage as well as additional recording studios and post production equipment.
The building that Metropolis has occupied for th epast 22 years (445 South 500 East) is around 9,400 square feet which has always been an ample size for their operation. Now that they're moving into a 16,500 square-foot building with 18-foot ceilings, they will be able to move ahead with expansion ideas that were once just "what-if's" because of space limitations.
Read the whole article at http://www.saltlakedigs.com/2010/public-safety-center-means-new-home-for-metropolis/
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Voice Overs
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning." ~Maya Angelou
Monday, August 2, 2010
Right Personality, Right Voice
Multiple personalities on a stick - that's what I call it! Being a voice over artist is all about bringing in different personalities or as others like to refer to them as - characters to each voice over job you do.
In a recent voice coaching session I went over my usual information regarding creating personalities and came to the realization that readers/voice talent may be very confused as to what type of personality or character to create. Do they mean over the top and cartoony, realistic, stylized? With all these choices how do you know what to do?
My method for creating personalities or characters is adapted through a variety of coaches, but James Alburgers' method; with his crafty character breakdown sheet is one of my favorites. This sheet is an in-depth look into a voice artist's character and can be a life-saver for many reasons; the most important, consistency and continuity.
This worksheet is incredible when creating in-depth stock characters (characters you will draw from several times in your career). Did you know that many professional voice talents only have about 10 solid characters and they manipulate those characters into several variations, making hundreds? This gives them several characters to choose from. If you haven't started creating characters to choose from. If you haven't started creating characters or personalities then this is something you can begin doing now. Learn everything about these characters inside and out so that you can read any script in their personality (notice I don't say VOICE - there is a huge difference between creating character personalities and creating character voices - that's what training is all about - learning the differences)!
Written by Debbie4
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In a recent voice coaching session I went over my usual information regarding creating personalities and came to the realization that readers/voice talent may be very confused as to what type of personality or character to create. Do they mean over the top and cartoony, realistic, stylized? With all these choices how do you know what to do?
My method for creating personalities or characters is adapted through a variety of coaches, but James Alburgers' method; with his crafty character breakdown sheet is one of my favorites. This sheet is an in-depth look into a voice artist's character and can be a life-saver for many reasons; the most important, consistency and continuity.
This worksheet is incredible when creating in-depth stock characters (characters you will draw from several times in your career). Did you know that many professional voice talents only have about 10 solid characters and they manipulate those characters into several variations, making hundreds? This gives them several characters to choose from. If you haven't started creating characters to choose from. If you haven't started creating characters or personalities then this is something you can begin doing now. Learn everything about these characters inside and out so that you can read any script in their personality (notice I don't say VOICE - there is a huge difference between creating character personalities and creating character voices - that's what training is all about - learning the differences)!
Written by Debbie4
Listen to Debbie4's Demo
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