The Sound Advice Dictionary for Acting & Voice Over

Let’s say, hypothetically, your agent just called. She has you on hold for Payless and check avail for a number of customizations for Glade. She needs to know your union status and whether you’ve gone exclusive with that other local talent agency you’ve been getting auditions through lately. Confused? Well then, what you don’t know can hurt you… professionally. Fear not, that’s why we wrote the book, The SOUND ADVICE Dictionary for Acting & Voice Over: What You Need to Know to Have a Career in Voice Acting from the founder of the most prolific and successful voice actor coaching and demo production company in the business, Kate McClanaghan. 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. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the definition of the word dictionary is: A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology. And an encyclopedia as: A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically. After all, if the shoe fits, it must be a duck!

Let’s say, hypothetically, your agent just called. She has you on hold for Payless and check avail for a number of customizations for Glade. She needs to know your union status and whether you’ve gone exclusive with that other local talent agency you’ve been getting auditions through lately. Confused? Well then, what you don’t know can hurt you… professionally. Fear not, that’s why we wrote the book, The SOUND ADVICE Dictionary for Acting & Voice Over: What You Need to Know to Have a Career in Voice Acting from the founder of the most prolific and successful voice actor coaching and demo production company in the business, Kate McClanaghan. 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. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the definition of the word dictionary is: A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology. And an encyclopedia as: A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically. After all, if the shoe fits, it must be a duck! This remarkably dynamic industry is dependent on specialized nomenclature, multiple media, promotions, communications, and the technologies that drive them. However, in order for art to meet commerce, you need to know a trusted source to guide you and The SOUND ADVICE Dictionary for Acting & Voice Over: What You Need to Know to Have a Career in Voice Acting will continually help guide, 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. You’ll learn: - What is ISDN and why it’s nearly obsolete - What to expect from the talent agents and what they expect from you - What’s the best definition of a demo and why it is the key to whether you’re successful or not - How to turn your promotional postcards into interactive links to lead directly to your web site - What Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) is and why it’s done on nearly every film and television production - What an in perpetuity buy out is and why that wording matters to your bottom line - 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.

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