Vocal Stress. Any dialogue requiring Vocal Stress shall be limited to the final two hours of a session. Performers engaged to perform Barks, Xxxx or other vocally stressful work may request and be granted a break during which they shall not be required to provide any work.
Vocal Stress. Videogame voice actors are routinely required to simulate painful deaths, creature voices, grunts, barks and other stressful vocalizations that can strain and damage their voices, sometimes permanently. To minimize the risk and strain on performers’ voices, we are demanding that vocally stressful sessions be limited to two hours but paid at the four hour session rate. • Transparency: Videogame employers routinely engage performers without identifying the role or even the game that the performer is being engaged to work on and refuse to provide basic information about the nature of the performance that will be expected of them. This deprives the performer of the ability to make a meaningful decision about whether to accept a role or to negotiate appropriate compensation if they do. We are demanding that employers provide performers or their agents with basic information at the time of engagement, including the game, the role and essential information about the nature of the performance.
Vocal Stress a. The parties have agreed to more proactive cooperation in the establishment of “best practices” to protect Performer voices. The parties have discussed how to communicate to directors those practices and how to impress upon the Performers their ability to voice concerns both prior to and during recording sessions.
Vocal Stress. “Sessions that predominantly contain vocally stressful work will be no longer than two
