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VO Makes Osgood

July 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Funny that being on TV, I almost never watch it.

One glaring exception is the CBS Sunday Morning News.  In my mind, it’s TV’s best regular programming, probably ’cause I started with Charles Kuralt, whom I considered a news God… and now with another “Charlie” — Charles Osgood…also a CBS stalwart.

A recent program had a brief story about Voiceovers by Nancy Giles.

Here’s the YouTube version for your enjoyment:

(props to my VO-BB chums for clueing me into this, ’cause once again…I wasn’t watching)

CourVO

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VoiceOvers @ the Oscars

March 8, 2010 By 2 Comments

Most twittered comment about the female VoiceOver for the Oscars Sunday night:

“She just said ‘pitcher’ again, instead of ‘picture’.”

Second most twittered comment about the female VoiceOver for the Oscars Sunday night:

“Did she really say ‘Barber’ Streisand?” (she did)

That female voiceover for the Oscars, BTW is Gina Tuttle.  I had not heard of her, but thought she did a pretty good job with nice energy.

HERE is a link with more about Gina.

And didja hear about the SNAFU Jeff Bridges got himself into with one of his best voiceover clients?  Hyundai was all set to run a rash of spots on the Oscars, but was turned-down for a conflict-of-interest.  Read HERE and HERE all the details.  Hyundai ran the ads anyway, but used several other celebs as substitutes for Bridges.  Hey, Hyundai…how ’bout trying out some PROFESSIONAL voice-actors???  Hmmm?

Finally, did you notice for the first time in over 20 years presenters were allowed to say: “…and the WINNER is…” instead of that contrived phrase: “…the Oscar goes to…”

I’m so glad they made that change.  If you happened to have missed the Oscars, what’s the first question you ask. Uh-huh….”Who WON”?

CourVO

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Video Voice Actor

April 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Oncamera People think it's harder to be on-camera than just performing voice.

Not True.

With video you can use gestures, facial expressions, even your hands to convey messages.  With voice, all you get is what you bring to the mic. It's just that people are not usually happy with what they look like on camera.

Since I've been on TV for 30 years, it seems very natural to me…so it amazes me how freaked-out some people get when they're on-camera.  I remember my first few times, though, and it CAN be intimidating.

The other downside of being on TV that long is it seems like old-school to me.  But right now video is HOT.  So I'm trying to get back into it more….esp on the web.

Every afternoon at the TV station, I sit at my desk and record a video on my laptop cam(about 1:00) that gets posted to YouTube, but is also embedded on our station website.  I'm Dcourvo on YouTube.  The KLAS-TV website is HERE.  The video is meant to picque interest in our evening newscasts, but we're moving more and more to video on our website, and I came up with the idea to stay on the vanguard.

BTW, our station website (Las VegasNow.com) just won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for most effective TV News Website.  We beat out HUGE TV markets in Phoenix, LA, SanFran, SanDiego and more.

We go on to the national competition again all the other regions, soon.

For your edification.  Here is today's 1:00 minute News "tease":
(BTW, I've post all of these on MY YouTube website…so you'll find a ton of them there.)

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Matt Loses out to Homer!

February 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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Don't look now, but Homer Simpson et. al. are about to surpass Matt Dillon, Kitty, Doc, and Festus as the longest-running prime-time U.S. television series.

Click HERE or HERE to read more.

Harry Shearer, Dan Castellaneta, and the others should be proud…
they're some of the best-paid character voices on the planet, and I
think I read that Homer Simpson, is closing in on Bugs Bunny as the
all-time most popular cartoon character.

See James Lipton interview many of the people who voice the Simpsons characters in THIS video.

Doh!

CourVO

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