HeyJaredThe Actor's Index by Astoria Redhead
Insight into the entertainment industry, creative entrepreneurialism, voiceover, and a dash of neuroscience.
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Diagnosis (opens the original)
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This week Tom Dheere published a piece on the new Voice Crafters survey and Paul Schmidt left one of the more thoughtful comments I’ve seen on LinkedIn in a while. I’ve been chewing on both ever since. I like and respect both of these guys. I wanna thank them up front for this conversation because I think our industry needs to have out loud. So, thanks, fellas, I appreciate this open door. (I also think the three of us are circling the same truth from different sides.)What I think Tom gets right
Melody (opens the original)
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Most voice actors who book commercial singing work are not the best singers in the room. They’re the ones who understand what the room is actually asking for.Tomorrow I’m teaching a class called Singing in Commercials and the first thing I’m gonna tell every student is this: this is not a singing class. It is a commercial performance class that happens to involve melody. The distinction sounds small but lemme tell ya that it is NOT. Commercial singing comes in three distinct formats and each one
Cringe (opens the original)
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You know it when you see it.That actor or influencer or friend you have posting their third political rant this week on a public account linked to their professional website. The coach doing a crying video about a personal crisis they clearly haven’t processed yet. The actor whose entire feed is thirst traps and then a reel about why they can’t book commercial work. I saw a video just this morning of an actor friend linking her OF account. I see, almost every day, a friend or acquaintance postin
Vetting (opens the original)
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I see this message EVERY SINGLE WEEK from actors: “I just took a class and they told me I need a coach AND a demo and it’s gonna run me over a little $2,000. Is this a scam?” And here’s the annoying, unsatisfying, completely true answer: it depends entirely on who. And figuring out “who” is on you, because everyone has their own opinions and a lot people you’d actually like to hear from are afraid to tell the ugly truth in open forums for fear of retaliation or…”blacklisting” or whateverthefuck.
Discovered (opens the original)
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“I made $3,500 on my FIRST voiceover job with ZERO experience in 15 minutes!” <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1687" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XLIa!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%
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