If you're making a living Talking Funny for Money, it might be thanks to what you've learned from voice actor Pamela Lewis's CD-book workshop of that name - or the annual four-night workshop she teaches in New York City.

• three cartoon / character voice shortcuts, which are demonstrated on the CD included with her book, and also detailed in the New York City workshop, and
• pointers on how to succeed in this genre in the New York City market.

• shortcuts to mastering the most requested dialects, age groups and celebrity impersonations in the New York City cartoon/character world;
• film looping / dubbing technique and terminology; and
• marketing, including how to assemble a competitive cartoon/character voice-over demo, specific to the New York City area.

“There’s no animation work in New York City - if you want to do character voices, you should go to L.A.”

• voicing an alien in a video game, to
• providing character voices that jazz up a dry piece of corporate copy, to
• using various dialects while looping a movie, to
• narrating a web site’s info in a style appropriate to the - possibly unconventional - product or service being sold, to
• doing a character role in a commercial voice-over, to
• recording a funny outgoing announcement for some company’s voicemail, to
• dubbing a Pokemon-style cartoon, to
• playing “ultra-warm Mom” or “ultra-disappointed Mom” in a political spot, to
• being the guide in your headphones steering you through an unusual museum exhibit (I’m often the genteel lady telling you about the desk you’re viewing in the house of a dead President), to
• voicing a talking toy, etc., etc."

 

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