Hi, David,
Just wanted to send you a quick note to say "thank you" for the two webinars you did through voiceoverXTRA, including a big "THANKS" for your input on my audition (both the email and the audition itself). I really appreciate your candor and all the time and energy you spent in order to help us all learn, and I feel I gained a lot from those few hours of your time and expertise.
You gave me plenty to think about, and to consider as I progress in this fun field of voice-overs. As you might notice, I already took your advice and changed my digital signature, making it smaller, no highlighting, and making use of color in a less intrusive way.
I will also pay closer attention to the descriptions I give at the beginning of each take submit in an audition. I thought my introductory comments were clear enough, but when you heard them, you had questions about what I meant, so that was helpful to hear. I'll aim for more clarity in future auditions.
It's too bad you didn't have time to play to the end of the second takes of all the auditions. Those were the more interesting ones, I thought. As for my second take (on the New Flat Earth Baked Veggie Crisps audition) where I introduced it as "thoughtful, as the inventor of the product", my idea was that I would be reading it as if it were the thoughts inside the inventor's head. Your reaction to the idea was that it would lead me to a higher energy read, but in fact, my intent was to have it a quieter read, as if it were the thoughts in the inventor's head, not the excitement of having invented it, but just the thoughts about it. But I understand your perspective, and I will definitely work to make the introductions clearer, short, to the point. And I'll thank the listener at the beginning. Sometimes I have added "Thanks so much for listening", at the end of my audition mp3s, but as happened during the webinar, sometimes people don't make it all the way to the end, so again, thank you for that helpful bit of information, too!
Much continued success to you with Edge Studio! I'm sure we will cross paths again some time very soon.
Jill
