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The Art of Voice Acting
8-Week Workshop
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I’m going to be completely honest with you
from the very beginning!
Performing for voiceover can be some of the best... and most profitable... fun you’ll ever have!
But “doing voiceover” professionally as a full-time voice artist can be challenging, frustrating, and expensive . . . especially if you don’t know what you’re doing! In other words, voiceover, in many ways, is just like any other business you might get into.
To learn how to “do the business” correctly, you need to study with someone who’s done it . . . and continues to do it. Do some research before you sign up for any voiceover workshop! And consider, very carefully, any coach who recommends that you produce an expensive demo after taking only one class. Chances are you may not be ready. There are literally thousands of people who want to break into voiceover, and those who succeed will be the people who are well trained and know what they’re doing.
Most people who consider “getting into” voiceover think only in terms of doing voice work for animation or commercials. But the reality is that the performing skills used by professional voice actors can be applied to every area of your life. These are communication skills that will help you to excel in your current job, improve business communication, and make you a better story teller.
If you've ever thought about working as voiceover talent for radio or television commercials, now is the time to learn how you can be successful in this fun and exciting business. There are new opportunities for voiceover performers every day.
If you speak professionally or make presentations from a prepared script, you can learn new ways to connect with your audience to get the results you want.
If you use your voice to communicate with other people in sales or customer service, the skills you will learn here will be invaluable.
Is voiceover for you?
Maybe . . . maybe not! Voiceover isn’t for everyone. Only you can be the judge as to whether or not pursuing a career in voiceover is right for you. But many of our students never intend to become voiceover talent. The performing and communication skills we teach are often more important than “breaking into voiceover.” We’ve taught professional speakers, sales people, clergy, news reporters, actors, telemarketers, and even theme park employees how to be more effective communicators through the use of voiceover and acting skills.
Voiceover is a specialized area of “show-business” that requires dedication, acting ability, specialized performing skills, excellent reading skills, and passion. To be truly successful, you must want to do voiceover because you can’t live without it! If you don’t know yet if VO is something you might want to pursue, then our recommendation is to read “The Art of Voice Acting” book before you take any voiceover class. Just because people tell you “you’ve got a great voice—you should be doing commercials,” doesn’t mean you should drop everything and start taking voiceover classes. “Breaking into voiceover” is a serious decision that can literally change your life . . . and you should at least learn the basics about the craft and business of voiceover before you spend your hard-earned money on more classes, books, and workshops.
I’m sold . . . Just tell me how much and let me register!
What’s Voiceover all about?
Voiceover is not about simply coming up with a “good interpretation” or “read” for a script. It’s all about creating compelling characters in interesting relationships . . . and that’s the essence of acting! If “breaking into voiceover” is your goal, you will need to learn how to act while reading from a script. In fact, the best acting sounds completely real—like it’s not acting! VO is a performing craft, and the more acting skills you have, the easier it will be to create a believable character for every script. If you are serious about learning voiceover, we do recommend taking other acting classes in addition to specialized voiceover training . . . and we suggest taking voiceover training from several different coaches. Unless you already have a strong performing background, a single voiceover class or workshop won’t give you all the skill and experience you’ll need to break into the business—or to produce a demo.
Acting talent is pretty much something you are born with. Some people have natural performing instincts and for others it takes time to learn the skills and performing techniques. And, to be perfectly honest, there are some people who are simply not destined to act in any way, shape, or form. Still, if you find that you have a passion for learning voiceover and you make a decision to at least take a serious look at learning the performing skills . . . we’re here for you! We can’t teach you to act . . . but we can teach you to be a better actor. And we’ll be happy to discuss your potential as a voiceover artist. One thing we won’t do, however, is to evaluate your voice or performing abilities after a short phone call. We’ve had far to many students who began with limited skills, or who struggled through their mastery of performance techniques, only to go on to become very talented and highly skilled performers.
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What’s The Art of Voice Acting Workshop?
Our goal is to give you the best training in acting for voiceover that you will find anywhere. You will learn powerful new ways to use your voice to connect with your audience to "sell" your message, and you will learn how to work with a variety of different types of scripts. Although our workshop focuses on acting for voiceover, The Art of Voice Acting 8-Week Workshopis all about using acting, voiceover, and performing techniques for more effective communication in every area of your life. We also teach these concepts and techniques in our Art of Voice Acting Weekend Workshops.
How do we do this?
ยท You’ll receive personalized one-on-one coaching throughout the workshop.
- You’ll get the information you need to know to be successful as a voice actor and communicator.
- You’ll learn "tricks of the trade" and other tools you can use to immediately improve the way you communicate with others.
- We give you homework assignments most weeks that will keep you on track and help to rapidly develop your performing skills.
In The Art of Voice Acting 8-Week Workshop you will:
- Learn what the voiceover business is all about and how voice acting will make you a better performing artist, speaker or salesperson.
- Learn the performing skills you need to have to make money as a full-time or part-time voiceover artist.
- Learn how to "get off the page" when working with any script.
- Learn how to market your talent to producers and agents.
- Each section of the workshop focuses on a specific area of voice-over:
- Section 1: The Seven Core Elements of Voiceover Performance & other techniques - the tools you need.
- Section 2: Telling the story - Finding emotion and drama in a script.
- Section 3: How to create interesting and unique “real-people character voices.”
- Section 4: Character voices, part 2 - more “real-people” and character voices for animation and special applications.
- Section 5: Developing skills for listening and responding - Improvisation and single-voice work.
- Section 6: How to work with dialog and multiple-voice copy.
- Section 7: How to find and tell the story in complex technical scripts.
- Section 8: Mock audition, Q & A forum. and the business of voiceover.
There are lots of audio examples and you’ll work on-mic with one-on-one coaching throughout the workshop.
For those students who choose to pursue voiceover, we offer additional workshops on Building Your Home Studio, Demos & Marketing, and many other topics essential for your success in voiceover.
Call 858 484-0220 for more information and to register using your credit card, or . . .
Click here for 8-Week tuition information and to register now using PayPal.
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