{"id":2509,"date":"2021-08-15T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/15\/game-voiceover-actors-turn-to-video-game-work-during-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2021-08-15T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T12:23:40","slug":"game-voiceover-actors-turn-to-video-game-work-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/15\/game-voiceover-actors-turn-to-video-game-work-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Game (voice)over: actors turn to video game work during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for voice actors increases, providing relief for workers whose other sources of income has dried up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was not only audiences that turned to video games during the pandemic. With theatres closed, and TV and film production on hiatus, British actors chose work they could do from isolation \u2013 and the booming gaming industry was ready to fill the gap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minute the pandemic hit, it was just everyone asking me: \u2018What mic should I get? How do you set up a home studio?\u2019\u201d says Cassie Layton, an actor and musician from south-west London. \u201cI was lucky in that I had worked doing voice acting for a few years before the pandemic hit. But every single actor, I think, either had the thought or took the action to set up a home studio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/aug\/15\/actors-turn-to-video-game-work-during-pandemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/21e5f40d4a518c35a2a1587100ae6fdfdf771cc3\/0_0_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=695523f119cd386292ad387e27a93abc\" title=\"Game (voice)over: actors turn to video game work during pandemic\" \/>Demand for voice actors increases, providing relief for workers whose other sources of income has dried up<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nSee all our coronavirus coverage<\/p>\n<p>It was not only audiences that turned to video games during the pandemic. With theatres closed, and TV and film production on hiatus, British actors chose work they could do from isolation \u2013 and the booming gaming industry was ready to fill the gap.<br \/>\n\u201cThe minute the pandemic hit, it was just everyone asking me: \u2018What mic should I get? How do you set up a home studio?\u2019\u201d says Cassie Layton, an actor and musician from south-west London. \u201cI was lucky in that I had worked doing voice acting for a few years before the pandemic hit. But every single actor, I think, either had the thought or took the action to set up a home studio.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for voice actors increases, providing relief for workers whose other sources of income has dried up Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage It was not only audiences that turned to video games during the pandemic. With theatres closed, and TV and film production on hiatus, British actors chose work they could &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/15\/game-voiceover-actors-turn-to-video-game-work-during-pandemic\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Game (voice)over: actors turn to video game work during pandemic<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}