I was very excited when my dad told me that we were going to go on a train to San Fransisco to see a C.S. Lewis play! 

My parents had already gone to a similar one a while ago, and they thought it would be a good experience for me. We're going on the 27th at 4 pm to see the play. It would be great to see a live actor in action and pick up a few things (like emotions, hand gestures, etc.). The actor's name is David Payne. The play is C.S. Lewis talking about his life and experiences. Since I love Chronicles of Narnia, this would be great to hear his backstory and learn about how the books were written.

The name of the play I am going to see is called "An Evening with C.S. Lewis: My Life’s Journey"

The actor's website summarizes the play as follows:

An Evening with C.S. Lewis – the year is 1963 and C.S. Lewis, the famous British author, is hosting a group of American writers at his home near Oxford. They are about to experience a captivating evening with a man whose engaging conversation and spontaneous humor made him one of the great raconteurs of his day.

Seated in his living room and in front of a warm fire he recalls the people and events that inspired his thought and shaped his life; of his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien; why he nearly abandoned the Narnia Chronicles; how he came to embrace Christianity and of the American woman who turned his life upside down.

A few days ago I made an audition in a wav format (it took me about 30-45 minutes because I had to practice the script they put up, and then add the effects, mixing and putting in the music) to have my voice over on the radio for a music radio station. The same day I auditioned, they cast me to do some voice-over radio announcements for them! It was very exciting, and they then sent me the script. The script they sent me the wrong script at first and was meant for a female to read (they were also casting a few other people to have their voice on the radio). The one they sent me had some of this, "GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS...ON STATIC". The next day we sorted out the mix-up, and then they sent me the right one. This was more like it, "YOU'RE LISTENING TO THE BEST...YEAR BY YEAR...ON STATIC." I recorded the script and sent it to them by the end of the week. There might be another script they want me to record. 

Here's the audition I sent them:

You can find their site here

I found them at Casting Call Club, an awesome site for hosting casting calls or auditioning for roles!

I just got some new foam for my recording space instead of a blanket:

I recently bought some new equipment for my voiceover and audio editing, and I've been trying to get a perfect setup for my voice over. In the room I normally record in, it almost sounds too open and echoey, and I wasn't about to get a $100 silent isolation shield for my mic, so I found an open corner in the room, then hung up a thick blanket on the wall (if I didn't use a blanket, it would sound really echoey because the sound would be bouncing off the walls). It worked amazingly! Whenever I was in that corner, it was a lot quieter and enclosed, which is exactly what I need. I had just bought a microphone stand, and so I put it up next to the corner, then attached the microphone (I use the Rode NT1-a condenser microphone), and then set up the music stand. After that, I hooked up the microphone to my computer through my audio interface (which I hung/attached to the wall so I could control the sound and gain). Then recorded. You could definitely tell the difference.

This is my setup:

I recorded some more kid commercial scripts to practice on, here's 2 of them:

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My personal notes: I should enunciate "Danimals" better, at one point I was too loud and it didn't sound good, and hopefully you can hear that I'm saying "or be inside a beating heart" (it's easy to get mixed up with all the "be(e)"s!).