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Book details
  • Genre:PERFORMING ARTS
  • SubGenre:Acting & Auditioning
  • Language:English
  • Pages:44
  • eBook ISBN:9781483512808

How To Get An Agent for Acting & Voice Over

by Kate McClanaghan

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Overview
Far too often the primary obstacle in the way of working with any regularity is whether or not you’ve managed to get an agent, especially an agent who has access to the work you’re best suited to land for voice overs and various acting jobs. Establishing and furthering your career in the voice over business and in acting (film, commercials and television) and achieving a comfortable level of success is a more attainable goal today than ever before—provided you have an effective game plan and realistic expectations on how to get an agent. Now you do! 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 Get An Agent For Acting & Voice Over. Learn trade secrets to secure voice acting jobs through the talent agents and their most-trusted online sources. 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. This dynamic industry is dependent on multiple media, promotions, communications, and the technologies that drive them. In order for art to meet commerce, you need to know How To Get An Agent For Acting & Voice Over 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 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 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
Far too often the primary obstacle standing in the way of working with any regularity is whether or not you’ve managed to get an agent. Especially an agent who has access to the work you’re best suited to land for voice overs and various acting jobs. Establishing and furthering your career in the voice over business and in acting (for film, commercials and television) and achieving a comfortable level of success is a more attainable goal today than ever before—provided you have an effective game plan and realistic expectations on how to get an agent. Now you do! 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 Get An Agent For Acting & Voice Over. Learn trade secrets to securing voice acting jobs through the talent agents and their most-trusted online sources. 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. 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 Get An Agent For Acting & Voice Over 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 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 on 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 effectively promote yourself - What talent agents expect from you - What to expect from the talent agents and what they expect from you - How to turn your promotional postcards into interactive links to lead directly to your web site - How to find talent agents from across the country - What the million dollar question to ask a talent agent - The purpose of a professional demo and their ACTUAL target audience - Simple, new technology that will replace elaborate recording and editing options, which often only serve to split your focus as a professional voice talent - 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