Bill Mecca

Can you be all things to all people? Well, if you can you are better than me. I'm a former TV and radio news guy who now produces video and does some freelance voiceover work. There are myriad voiceover people out there. Some talented in character voices, others have talent for cartoon voices, anime and such. There are few like Don LaFontaine who are synonymous with a genre like he is with movie trailers. I will never be the next Don LaFontaine. All I want to be is the best Bill Mecca I can be. That means focus. Focusing on my strengths and trying to improve my weakenesses. Sure I can do a goofy voice, heck I was even hired to do an impression of Steve Irwin (the late Crocodile Hunter) but is that a strenghth? Not really. I've done a stereotypical Italian mobster type for a friends CD, but is that a strength? Not really. My strength is corporate, industrial, training and e-learning type projects. With my background I have done on-camera pieces for training videos, voice overs f

My 10 year old daughter needed an extra credit project on a Biome. With her dad having a bit of knowledge of one biome with his award-winning Lost Towns of the Pine Barrens, Vol. I he suggested she use some of that footage and create a video. She wrote the script, shot most of the local video, and performed the voice over. I helped her with the edit, and took a few shots myself (most of which wound up on the cutting room floor). so here it is.

still shot grabbed from one of my first attempts at green screen. I will get a better shot one of these days. I haven't gotten to another tutorial yet, as I have been monkeying around with this blog, and just installed Wordpress on my voiceover site. GoDaddy, my host, has added an easy install, so I figured I would try it out. It's gotten good reviews, and I like the idea of having it on my own site, and building (I hope) traffic there, but the Admin area is so slow to respond. I could brew coffee in the time it takes to publish a post, or make a change. I will play with it a bit more as I focus in on just what I want to do, so we will have to see how it all turns out. Stay tuned!