But I'm getting a little off topic here. If you don't know who they are, or haven't clicked over to either of their websites, or haven't figured it out by the title of the book...Lowenthal and Platt are professional voice actors. Voice actors, obviously, are the people doing the voice-over work in the narration for commercials or movies, they bring life to your favorite animated characters, and the style of voice-over that many of you reading this right now may be very intimately acquainted with, narration of audiobooks. They get paid to do these things, and eventually may end up making a living off of it. And I think that sounds like one of the most fun jobs a person could possibly have.
The more technical behind-the-scenes parts of the world of voice-over were kind of a mystery to me, though, and I'm sure they are to a lot of other people. Probably to most other people. I mean, I've seen clips of musical artists and radio personalities in sound booths before, either recording or broadcasting live. But voice actors? I never used to think so much about who the people were, who were doing all this narration or providing the voices for the cartoons I enjoy watching, but I've been more interested in it lately, and I think these people all deserve way more recognition and general appreciation than they seem to get. I know in some Asian countries at least, voice actors can have the same kind of celebrity status as screen actors, and that is how I feel it should be. For real, go compare the IMDb listing of a relatively well-known screen actor to any voice actor, and don't be surprised if you find that the voice actor is more prolific - these people do A LOT.
Okay, I'm digressing a little again.
