Workbook Sample - Commitment

Commitment

What is your dream? How far do you want to go? Narration and Commercial Voice Work has been rediscovered by most performers and for a select group who have worked very hard to perfect their skills, the rewards for Voice Work are usually in direct proportion to the amount of energy expended. Take Alan Bleviss for example.

Alan Bleviss is the consummate Actor/Announcer. He is the voice of the Democratic National Party in the USA representing all Democratic candidates in every American election from the President of the US to the local sheriff in Tidewater Beach Florida. He is the voice of Enterprise automobiles, AT&T, countless American movie trailers, and here in Canada was the corporate voice of the Royal Bank "one customer at a time".

I met Alan at his apartment in mid-town Manhattan some years ago before a luncheon engagement. As I walked in his front door I was lambasted by a cacophony of sound from different television sets and radios over the length and breadth of the apartment. Allan was listening to all the networks at once. He knew every voice on every commercial and which announcer was doing the promos, liners and station ID’s on each network. The man was in the know. He worked an average of 5 hours a day in various studios across New York City as his chauffeur waited for him curbside in his town car.

At the Palm Restaurant on 2nd Ave., a Sardi’s for the broadcast performer, we were seated at a table over which was drawn a Hirschfeld caricature of none other than Alan Bleviss. He is a man most respected by his peers, a man used to making millions of dollars. Alan Bleviss is an actor from Toronto.