Voice Over Coach Bettye Zoller Finds Inspiration in Supermarkets

October 11, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News
Toronto, Canada (PR Leap) October 11 – Bettye Zoller, voiceover coach, voice talent and author, lectured on the subtleties of honing an individual’s acting or voice acting craft by being attentive and observant in the most universal of people watching places on earth, the local supermarket or grocery store. Voice Over Experts, http://podcasts.voices.com , is the most downloaded industry podcast that features the best teachers of voice acting from around the world, representing a different lecture topic and presenter each week.

Bettye Zoller’s lecture “Finding Inspiration for Voice Over at Supermarkets” engages listeners as they become aware of the everyday influences and human behaviors manifested during simple tasks such as grocery shopping, identifying several incidents that provide catalysts for creating authentic voice over interpretations. Bettye confides that the supermarket provides food for thought as well as consumption, and consequently, is an intimate training ground for voice actors to develop characters and draw inspiration from.

This is the second podcast episode Bettye Zoller has contributed to the Voice Over Experts podcast. As a member of the faculty, Ms. Zoller will be contributing lectures on a regular basis for aspiring voice actors and professional voice actors alike to learn from and succeed by. Since the lectures are available in the form of podcasts, the lessons are hosted online and can be heard at any time of day at the convenience of the listener.

The Voice Over Experts Podcast can be found and subscribed to for free in the iTunes Podcast Directory and online at the Voices.com Podcast Center.

Listen to Bettye’s podcast lectures here:

http://podcasts.voices.com/voiceoverexperts/bettye_zoller/

To learn more about the Voice Over Experts Podcast, visit:

http://podcasts.voices.com/voiceoverexperts/


About Bettye Zoller

34 years as a respected university and private educator in voice, speech, theatre, radio-TV, and voiceover techniques along with her award-winning career in voiceovers and jingles has won Bettye Zoller an International reputation that brings clients and students to her workshops and to work in her Dallas recording studio. She is educated through the doctorate with faculty positions in the past at Southern Methodist University, University of Texas at Arlington, Dallas County Colleges. She has also studied with famed NYC acting coach Uta Hagen, in Chicago at the "Second City School" and her career began long ago at Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Hollywood studio school (as a child performer signed to MGM).

Her voiceover credits number in the many hundreds and range from voiceovers and jingles for national TV commercials to audio books to cartoons, from toys to podcasts to anime. You've heard Bettye Zoller for decades worldwide! Clients have included American Airlines, Pepsi, Visa, Lifetime TV Channel, The Weather Channel, Pace Picante Sauce, Lionel Trains, Texas Instruments Talking Toys, Seven Seas Dressings, Pedialyte Vitamins, and promos for ABC, NBC, and BBC America. She is a Simon and Schuster audio book author, narrator, and producer. She has won ADDYS, CLIOS, GOLDEN RADIOS, and AUDIE awards over the years. She is the author of eleven audio titles sold worldwide and continues to produce new titles annually. She is known for teaching voiceover techniques including audio book narration and production, and her BUSINESS OF VOICEOVERS workshops are legendary with students who credit her with starting them in their lucrative voiceover careers.

About Voices.com

Based in London, Canada, Voices.com provides an online marketplace, facilitating transactions between business clients and voice-over professionals employing a comprehensive suite of web-based services. Clients that have worked at Voices.com include NBC, ESPN, PBS, The History Channel, Reader's Digest, Comcast, Nortel Networks, Bell Canada, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, ING, Western Union, Ford, GM, Jaguar, US Army, the US Government and more.