Hollywood Voice-Over Pro Bill Ratner Teaches Narration Class for SAG Foundation

Sept. 14, 2010 - PRLog -- BillRatner.com
Media contact:  WJ Carrel

Los Angeles - Bill Ratner, well-known Hollywood voice-over actor, and one of America’s leading narrators of long-form documentary programming for Discover Channel, A & E, History Channel, Travel Channel, the Weather Channel, etc., and also a long-standing member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Actors Equity, and the American Federation of TV & Radio Artists, will teach a class entitled “Narration for the Discovery Channel” to SAG performers on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm at the Don La Fontaine Voice-Over Lab at SAG headquarters, 5757 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA  90036. The class is sponsored by the SAG Foundation.

Ratner will discuss, and then practice the art of long-form narration with the participants.   “We’ll explore why this area of voice-over is growing so quickly, how ‘documentary’ narration differs from ‘corporate’ narration, commercial reads, and trailer voice-overs, plus what makes a client want to hire a particular narrator more than once,” comments Ratner.

The Don La Fontaine Voice-Over Lab has a fully-equipped sound studio for actors to audition, or work on their craft.  The conference space hosts workshops and demonstrations led by experts in the field.   More on the lab can be found at
sagfoundation.org/videogallery/DLF_VOLab.

Ratner, who is also a master storyteller and 5-Time The Moth Story Slam winner, recently returned from a successful Great Upper Midwest and New England Storytelling Tour.  He has a huge following of fans who remember him as “Flint” in GI Joe, Family Guy, and Robot Chicken.  Currently, he is the voice of numerous movie trailers, TV networks, and affiliate stations around the U.S. where he is recognized for his soothing delivery, inimitable charm, and wry humor.  His short stories and essays are published in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, Cheng Kung Literary, Southern Anthology, Papier Mache, Nightblade, Spork, Marquee, and Coast Magazine.  He is the voice of Niteblade.com’s first-ever spoken word horror story which he also wrote.  He lives in Los Angeles, CA, and owns three bicycles in various states of disrepair.  More about Bill Ratner can be found at billratner.com.

The SAG Foundation, founded in 1985, is an educational, humanitarian, and philanthropic non-profit organization.   Its mission is to assist, educate, and inspire actors.

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