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highly recommend in particular:
     
    Bob Bergen
    (818) 999-3081
     
    Pat Fraley
    (818) 400-3733
     
    If you want further proof as to
why should work with either or these guys, just check ‘em out on IMDB. You’ll
be astounded.
     
    Videogames
     
    Videogames have become a
powerhouse on the entertainment scene, and this trend doesn’t show any signs of
dying down. As with animation, a voice for videogames will be expected to both
create and sustain a number of characters over the course of a given session.
     
    The only downside with
videogames is that the talent receives a single check for his or her “session
work,” meaning that, unlike a great deal of animation, there are no payments
for residual sales of the video game the talent performs on. That said, people
who work regularly in videogames can make a great deal of money, depending on
the deal negotiated by the agent who books it. This, however, is usually only
the case for those who book leading roles. For the vast majority of people who
work on videogames, you’re looking at long hours and a surprising amount of
shouting. People who work these gigs often call them “scream-and-grunts.”
Whatever character you play, you’ll be called upon to die, loudly, in various
ways: being shot, being crushed, being burnt to death. Accordingly, these
sessions are usually booked on a Friday, so that the voice actor will have time
to regain his or her voice for any work the following week.
     
    Audiobooks
     
    Audiobooks stand alone in the
voiceover world, for a number of reasons. First off, a number of audiobook
performers don’t have agent representation; they book jobs on their own,
through relationships they establish themselves. Further, because performers
usually work from their home studio, they set the hours he or she will work on
a given day. And finally, audiobook narration, besides requiring real acting
and storytelling chops, it also takes a great deal of patience. Actors can
spend days or even weeks completing the reading of a book. As an audiobook
reader, you need to give as much weight and attention to the first sentence of
a book as you do to the last, even if you’ve been reading the same book for
twenty hours. Therefore, audiobooks aren’t for everyone. But for a growing
number of voice people who have the skill and the patience, it’s a dream job.
     
    Political
     
    Every political season brings a
new set of campaigns across the country, and with it, a fresh batch of
political ads. Voice actors who do these ads can adopt authoritative (or
disdainful, or disbelieving) tones. This is another area where those with
announcer-type voices can succeed. In most cases, voice actors looking for work
in political ads are asked to declare a party affiliation, and are submitted by
their agents accordingly.
     
    ADR/Looping
     
    Any time you see a crowd scene
in a film or TV show, you can hear a loop group at work. That’s because when a
crowd scene is shot, the story is always focused on the main characters in the
scene who are speaking the lines you hear. Believe it or not, everyone else you
see in the background—all the extras—are mouthing as if they’re
speaking; in reality, there’s no sound at all.
     
    That means that in
“post-production,” after the scene is shot and edited, it’s up to a group of
voice actors to fill in the sound of random background conversations that
appear to be taking place on the screen.
     
    It’s actually more specialized
than you’d imagine. For example, if the show or film being depicted is a legal
show, medical drama, or cop procedural like “CSI” or “Law and Order,” it’s
important that the loopers are conversant in the lingo of whomever they’re
portraying. In other words, if it’s a legal drama, the loopers are expected to
talk like lawyers; if it’s a medical show, they’re called upon to have a
knowledge of medical terminology, and so on.
     
    Looping is a fun, lucrative way
to make a living as a