I remembered something else in addition to everything else I wrote: summer reading programs! 📚 📕 📙 📒 📗 📘
If you love your library, let Congress know that funding is important! A recent executive order is attempting to dismantle the federal agency that funds public libraries: the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.
Click here to easily email your Congress people to let them know that you want to protect federal funds for libraries.
You can take a quick tour of my town’s libraries here in this short:
Happy Almost Spring! It’s the end of February and the weather is starting to warm up here in New Jersey….but March can always surprise us with snow, so I’m not saying goodbye to winter just yet.
I wanted to share some recent projects I’ve put together for my YouTube channel, starting with a trip to the beach a few weeks ago. It was so windy and it was actually snowing, but you can’t see the snowflakes since the wind blew them by the camera so quickly.
Earlier this month, my town had a Lunar New Year Festival at one of the local schools, so I made a video featuring some of the performances at the festival.
There were also two movie trailer projects that I worked on for voiceover coach Domingo Castillo’s monthly challenges. What he does is provide the short script and it’s up to each person participating in the challenge to decide the movie’s genre and tone — and we also have to add the names of two real actors that might be in this movie.
For the first fake movie, called “Providence,” I decided it would be a romantic comedy where two people meet in a park.
The second fake movie was called “Madison Crossing” and I chose to do a kind of mysterious drama on the high seas. Maybe there’s an element of fantasy to it?
For these movie trailers, I found stock videos on Pexels and edited them together using Canva. I also found music and sound effects for the videos that I added to the audio side of things, and of course I did the voiceover in my home studio. I used Canva to put everything together into the videos you see here.
Thanks for checking them out!
As always, if you have a voiceover project that you’d like to discuss, please get in touch!
Once again, it’s time for the October VO character voices challenge. This year, we return to the characters featured in last year’s video — which was inspired by the Halloween decorations hanging on my door — but this year, a new character appears…
I created this project as part of VO Coach Domingo Castillo’s monthly challenges. For this month, just like last year, we were asked to record a character voice and add music and sound effects. For this project, I wrote and recorded the script of the characters talking, sang the Dies Irae verses and mixed them with music, and reused the recordings of ice cubes clinking in the glass from last year’s video. I edited it all together and then created the video using Canva.
Happy National Library Week 2024! I love my town’s libraries and this year they are celebrating their 95th year! Each branch of the Edison Public Library marked the occasion with a celebration of refreshments and music.
As an added bonus, the Bookmobile was parked outside and was open! I love going inside the Bookmobile because I just love the concept of driving books around to the parts of town that aren’t near a branch to ensure that people have access.
My parents always took me to our local library when I was a kid, where we borrowed books & videos and attended kids’ programs. And I started taking my kids when they were young so they could experience all that our town’s libraries have to offer. In addition to borrowing books, magazines, movies, and games, we’ve attended kids’ programs and always participate in the summer reading program. We’ve won lots of prizes over the years! I enjoy the library’s book club and the newly formed artist’s roundtable program. Public libraries are a treasure!
Check out my Short about my experience viewing the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, with the path of totality. What an incredible experience!
For about 2 minutes, I watched as the moon blocked the sun and a beautiful white-hot ring of light appeared in the sky. I can appreciate what ancient people must have felt after such an event.
On Monday, I was in a parking lot with lots of other people, and this added to the gravity and drama of the moments when the crowd reacted to the different stages of the eclipse.
After this incredible experience, I can understand why some people chase eclipses all over the world (I’ve learned that they are called umbraphiles), and if I had the money I would do it, too!
It was hard to get my camera to cooperate with getting any good shots of the eclipse, but for me, this video helps to sum up the event and will help me remember the experience. Let me know if you have any questions!
This video features a project that I created as part of VO Coach @DomingoVoiceOver‘s monthly challenges, and for this month, we read a narration script of our choosing.
In honor of Women’s History Month, I adapted this script from several sources, expanding on last year’s video on the same topic of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. You can check that out here: • Women’s History Month Narration, Marc…
For this year’s project, I recorded the script in my home studio, edited and mixed it with music, and then created the video using Canva.
Declaration of Sentiments: Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/201… Title: Exhibit at the museum of the Women’s Rights National Historic Park in Seneca Falls, New York Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
It’s that time of year again! Friends & Family Furniture is having a sale! 💥💥
This is my project for Domingo Castillo‘s monthly challenge, and just like last year, the fictitious furniture store is having their anniversary sale 😄 🎉 🥂
Thanks to the fabulous Bruce Nix for being my “Voice 2” on this project, and thanks to Domingo for the opportunity to participate in the fun! Bruce and I each recorded our parts of the script, then I edited & mixed it with music and made the video using Canva.
Have a great weekend, and if you’re going furniture shopping, I know a place with great sale 😉
Take a few minutes to relax and unwind with this gentle guided meditation. I created this video as a part of the monthly VO challenges offered by coach Domingo Castillo, who asked for everyone’s readings of the lovely script by Elizabeth Winkler on Insight Timer.
I hope this helps you find a few moments of calm during your busy days and nights.
This year’s “The State of Voiceover in 2024” survey is now available on the NAVA website, and all voice actors are encouraged to take this anonymous survey.
NAVA stands for the National Association of Voice Actors, and they do incredible work for our industry, from meeting with lawmakers in DC, to giving interviews for major publications to talk about how AI affects us, to attending conferences, to providing educational talks and materials to voice actors, to collecting data on a survey like this one!
