Pat Fraley Teaches Voice Over Talent the Critical Skills of Voice Acting

London, Canada, September 18, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Pat Fraley is the creator of over four thousand characters placing him as one of the top ten performers of all time cast in animation productions. Fraley is also an award-winning audiobook producer and teaches voice over classes through events, workshops, seminars, instructional books and CD’s.

Fraley presents his lecture "The Critical Compound" at Voices.com on Voice Over Experts. He explains how the three performance elements, character voice, acting, and accents, work together to create a compound. When studying these elements, it is of critical importance that to break them down individually before putting them back together again in the performance. Listeners will learn how to develop each element, giving the read subtext and emotion by applying these skills to any script.

Voiceover Experts is hosted by Voices.com, the voiceover marketplace. Voice Over Experts is the industry's most downloaded educational podcast featuring renowned voice over coaches from the US, Canada and abroad, offering pearls of wisdom and tricks of the trade for novice and seasoned voiceover talent. The Voice Over Experts Podcast can be found in the iTunes Podcast Directory and online at the Voices.com Podcast Center.

To listen to Pat Fraley, visit:
http://podcasts.voices.com/voiceoverexperts/pat_fraley/

Learn more about Voices.com here:
http://www.voices.com/

About Pat Fraley

Patrick Fraley has created voices for over 4,000 characters, placing him among the top ten performers of all time to be cast in animation. He has produced dozens of award-winning audiobooks, such as, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Very Easy Death, and The Light in The Piazza. Pat produced and performed all 100 voices on the award winning audiobook, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which People Magazine hailed as, "The best yet of this evergreen." Patrick teaches events, workshops, and seminars on various aspects of voice over across the country, and has created a variety of instructional books and CDs, all available at PatFraley.com. He is a member of The Voice and Speech Trainers of America, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Professional Acting from Cornell University.

About Voices.com

Based in London, Ontario, Canada; Voices.com provides a virtual exchange, facilitating business transactions between creative producers and voice-over professionals. Companies that have used Voices.com include NBC, ESPN, PBS, The History Channel, Reader's Digest, Comcast, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, ING, Western Union, Nortel, Ford, GM, the US Army, the US Government and more.

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