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Book details
  • Genre:PERFORMING ARTS
  • SubGenre:Acting & Auditioning
  • Language:English
  • Pages:49
  • eBook ISBN:9781483512877

How to Become a Valuable Voice Over

What Every Talent Needs to Know

by Kate McClanaghan

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Overview
What do you have to offer on acting and voice over jobs that makes you valuable? It’s not enough to be “talented”, you need to offer solutions and instill confidence in those most likely to hire you by knowing your job both in and out of the booth, on and off set. Find out what no other voice coach or acting school will teach you about becoming a voice actor and professional talent. What you don’t know will stop you from accomplishing your ambitions. How To Become a Valuable Voice Over: What Every Talent Needs To Know delivers precisely that in order for you to become a voice over and secure an acting career, not simply one job. Successful business owners will tell you that it generally takes three to five years to establish any small business. The same is true for the voiceover and acting business provided you utilize the tools necessary to running your voiceover and acting career. Discover what’s required to be successful, and how to establish and run your small business as a professional voice actor and talent. You’ll find current industry standards detailed in How To Become a Valuable Voice Over: What Every Talent Needs To Know. Learn trade secrets to securing voice acting jobs through talent agents and their most-trusted online sources. In order for art to meet commerce, you need to know How To Become a Valuable Voice Over: What Every Talent Needs To Know to establish and further your career as a professional talent. Learn the essentials required to offer the greatest opportunities in promoting yourself and maintaining your acting career and voice acting career regardless of location or experience level to land voice overs and on-camera jobs. Discover what no voice acting classes will teach you from the author of The SOUND ADVICE Encyclopedia of Voice-over & the Business of Being a Working Talent and expert in the voice acting and entertainment field to allow you the best chance to secure voice acting jobs as well as on-camera work.
Description
What do you have to offer acting and voice over jobs that makes you valuable? It’s not enough to be “talented”, because like any job, it’s up to you to offer solutions and instill confidence in those most likely to hire you by knowing your job both in and out of the booth, both on and off set. So how do you do that, exactly? Find out what no other voice coach, acting training, voice over classes, acting school will teach you about becoming a voice actor and professional talent. What you don’t know will stop you from accomplishing your true ambitions. How To Become a Valuable Voice Over: What Every Talent Needs To Know delivers precisely what the title says in order for you to become a voice over and secure an acting career, not simply one job that doesn’t continue beyond that single opportunity. Like any business, your career only moves forward if you take it upon yourself to effectively promote and market yourself. In fact, most seasoned, successful business owners will tell you that it generally takes three to five years to establish any small business. The same is true for the voiceover and acting business provided you are utilizing the tools necessary to running your voiceover and acting career. Discover what’s truly required of you to be successful, and how to establish and run your small business as a professional voice actor and talent. You’ll find current industry standards spelled out in detail in How To Become a Valuable Voice Over: What Every Talent Needs To Know. Learn trade secrets to securing voice acting jobs through the talent agents and their most-trusted online sources. This remarkably dynamic industry is dependent on multiple media, promotions, communications, and the technologies that drive them. However, in order for art to meet commerce, you need to know How To Become a Valuable Voice Over: What Every Talent Needs To Know to establish and further your career as a professional talent. Learn the essentials required to offer you the greatest opportunities in promoting yourself and maintaining your acting career and voice acting career regardless of where you live or experience level to land voice overs and on-camera jobs. Discover what no voice acting classes will teach you from the author of The SOUND ADVICE Encyclopedia of Voice-over & the Business of Being a Working Talent and one of the most astute experts in the voice acting and entertainment field to allow you the best chance to secure voice acting jobs as well as on-camera work alike. You’ll learn: - How to turn your promotional postcards into interactive links to lead directly to your web site - What format your headshots need to be in to view them online - Online casting sources for both on-camera acting jobs and voice acting jobs from across the country - Which web sites offer you the most work as a actor and/or voice over - How to land voice acting jobs from producers in regions on the opposite side of the country with the use of a simple FREE online tool - How to practice recording and editing your auditions from home with out destroying your professional reputation - Plus a great deal more! The wealth of information you’ll find in these pages doesn’t simply come from what we think or based solely on our own (albeit vast experience) and unparalleled expertise, but from extensive survey of more than 12,000 casting and production professionals nationwide to offer you the benefit of this collective wisdom.
About the author
Kate McClanaghan has cast, produced, and trained literally thousands upon thousands of voice-over actors. As a seasoned casting director and producer, she has produced scores of national commericals, corporate narrrations, web and new media for hundreds of national brands. And as a professional working talent and voice-over, she has maintained a thriving career for herself behind the mic as well. She established SOUND ADVICE, the most complete voice-over demo service; to fill the industry’s need for an honest, professional approach to effective, individual career coaching and demo production for every experience level. With studios in both Chicago and Los Angeles, Kate and her seasoned team of producers have trained well over 10,000 talent and produced more than 5,000 cutting edge, industry-changing voice-over demos with the intent mission to assist you as you establish, relaunch, and/or further your career in this remarkable field. - Kate’s blogs and podcasts are available on the SOUND ADVICE web site: www.voiceoverinfo.com. She is available for seminars nationwide via email: kate@soundadviceclients.com “There has never been as much of a demand for voice-over talent than there is today with the thousands of channels available with basic cable consistently increasing every year, the constant need for Internet content, the massive expansion of games, animation, film, and commercial work. It’s never been a better time to pursue voice-over…provided you know what that involves. That’s why I wrote the book.” -Kate McClanaghan