13121: Do You Really Need The Latest And Greatest Version?

Raw transcript:

how many times have you worked really
really hard to find the solution for a
problem
only to notice that when you look up
from finding that solution
the problem has changed
well we’re going to talk about moving
targets today in this episode of the vo
Heroes podcast
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we all work very very hard in this
business to find the right answer right
the the answer that satisfies things
forever the answer that once we get
there is going to make our actor and
voice over life fantastic and it’s going
to we never have to worry about it again
and when we do these things that we can
go along our merry way and not worry
about that particular issue for the rest
of our lives it rarely happens that way
and I want you to consider being okay
with that the fact that our world is
moving forward sometimes backwards but
certainly moving in many ways from one
thing to another one process to another
one set of metrics to another you know
we’ve talked in these episodes before
about how as you move through your
performer journey and become a more
experienced actor a more experienced
voice over talent
your metrics for success and your
measurements as to where you are against
where you’d like to be change
what also changes
is sometimes the challenges that we face
um just as an example uh when I first
started doing uh this kind of work it
was in the 70s and the kinds of
microphones that we had and the kind of
equipment that we had was one set of
things and there was really good stuff
and there was really cheap stuff
certainly there wasn’t the home gear
that we have now so things have changed
a lot over time and the gear that I used
in the 80s and the 90s and the early
2000s is not the gear that I use today
I’m in the process of of deciding
whether or not I’m going to stick with
the camera that I’ve been using for the
last few years or move on to a new
camera that has some features that I
could use uh the microphone that I’m
using you know if something comes along
for a problem you’ve already solved that
appears to be a better solution it’s
okay to consider it
the one caveat is I would guard very
strongly against becoming addicted to
changing up to moving forward for the
sake of moving forward Only If It Makes
Your solution better more secure more
compact more reliable
that’s the time when I will consider a
new solution to a problem but the notion
that our problems
change over time even while we’re
looking for a solution to the problem we
thought we had you know we look up and
it’s like wait wait what happened here
that happens all the time and it happens
more frequently than it used to because
we have a bigger knowledge base as a
society and we have more options and
certainly technology has changed a great
deal
the point is you can get frustrated by
it or you can accept it as a reality and
just make it a part of how you react to
things calmly and professionally and
that’s what I urge you to consider
um it happens a lot and it can continue
to happen for you especially when you’re
at the beginning maybe in the
intermediate stages of of your career
once you find something that works stick
with it as long as you can or as long as
you need to but be ready to change in
case something happens
there’s a lot there’s a lot that goes
into that give me your questions are you
are you addicted to the newest latest
stuff uh are you constantly like
changing things up because you’re not
satisfied with what you’re doing has the
problem moved for you at all uh on the
podcast episode page on veoheros.com go
ahead and pop into the comments your
questions your observations I’d love to
hear what’s going on if you’d like to
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benefit from this approach I’d love if
you do that I’m David H Lawrence the
17th and thank you so much for watching
and for listening and I will see you in
the next episode of the vo Heroes
podcast
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