Guidance: Sound Design and Demo Production
“For professionals only. Should not be attempted at home (alone)!”When producing your voice over DEMO, precautions must be taken. Hopefully you’re working with folks who have been doing sound editing and direction for enough years to become proficient at their craft. Ask about their credentials. Who have they worked for? This isn’t a time to...
Read More Bad Dialogue Partner
You enter the audition booth only to find that your dialogue partner is a dud; a guy or gal who can’t read, can’t act, had garlic for dinner the night before, and is in favor of paying more income tax. At first you might want to say, “Oy vey, why me God?” Then you realize...
Read More How was it?
I always wonder why. “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”– Sir Winston Churchill There are times when I’m positive I must be driving most of my colleagues bananas. Some things never change. I see, and then I ask; I hear, and then I ask; I read and...
Read More Creative Formation
“It’s all in the feeling process.” Hk The statement contained in the box above was placed in a box by me in order to describe the person who made the statement. Said person is of course a complete dummy. Voice over is as competitive an acting craft as any other. Each and every successful actor...
Read More Dealing With Direction
“Meet and Respect Your Director”I talked Did they listen?If so, did they think with caring?Was there an understanding?Of what I was sharing? I was their man, of national tootNot a chance of disreputeIn all honesty, after my introductionI expected, nay, warranted a salute! Good, bad, sad, glad, mad, happy, snappy, crappy, nappy, lappy, lippy, snippy,...
Read More You and the Director
The on going question: What kind of a director was he to work with? The question I ask, not as a director, but as the educator would be: What would you do if there were no directors to work with? “Most actors who have not studied the acting craft of voice over will go up...
Read More Why Do I Teach?
Teaching makes my learning endless! Teacher and Student “It so grieves me to lose good friends. Departure should not be reason enough for a relationship to end. When there is mutual respect, and those in a relationship thrive on helping and stimulating the other to grow to endless horizons, then why should we accept departure?...
Read More Biblical Terms for the Professional Actor
I’m so guilty of living in the past that there are times when even I can’t stand it. My love of the old movies, as I watched them as a kid, remains and will always live on in my mind’s eye and in my heart’s throbbing. I grew up believing almost everything I saw on...
Read More 2010
Not today There’s no acting allowed We need no others We have our own crowd From Kalmenson & Kalmenson Casting voices While delivering education Sounding trumpets of joy Sending greetings with elation That wonderful time of the year Has again come to help us We’re not looking back But forward to a new start Sending...
Read More The Voice Over Audition: History + Pursuing Excellence
Many of our younger thespians are unaware of what transpired prior to their entering the commercial voice over world. Others are in search of the most beneficial way of continuing their pursuits of excellence as a talent. When I’m asked what it was like a few years ago, almost all are surprised at my history...
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