Voice Over: from Learning to Earning
How to become a Voice Over for Radio, Television, Audiobook, Podcast
Description
If you think you have a voice that people keep complimenting then you may have the raw material to make a career in the world of voice-overs.
Once you have applied yourself and learnt the skills of a voice-over you can walk into any studio and perform. You don’t need any equipment to do this – just your voice – it’s the ultimate portable skill.
If you do want to work from your own studio at home we’ll show you what you need.
Like any other skill, for example juggling, you have to practice and apply yourself. This course will show you what you need to do to become proficient at voice-overs and find the niches for which your voice is best suited.
In recent years, voices and accents of all kinds have become in demand, you no longer have sound like the honey voiced announcers of old. The use of voice-overs has grown exponentially with media of all kinds needing voice work for their productions, and this is your opportunity.
All over the world English is the international language and there are many possibilities to supply those voice-overs yourself to producers abroad.
You’ll learn from experienced voice-overs on how they get work and producers on what they want and need from a voice. We’ll show you how to improve your voice and make yourself more versatile. This course opens the door to a well paid profession you can even do from home.
Tutors:
Steve England, Radio Producer and Voice Over
Julia Small, Radio Producer and Voice Over
Guest speakers:
- Chris Brookes, Screen Writer and Author
- Rachel Knighting, Head of Production & Audio Producer at S2Blue
- Tom Marshall, Producer and Voiceover Artist
- Steve Jones, Director at Spoken-Image
- Emma Davis, Producer and Voiceover Artist
What You Will Learn!
- How the voice business works
- What you may need to change in your own voice?
- How to learn from experienced voice-overs and acquire their skills?
- Insight on building your own home studio inexpensively
- Where to find work?
- Developing your versatility
- Tips on reading fluently
- Microphone technique
- Making a read interesting
- Expanding your “comfort zone”
- Special skills for reading commercials
- How to get clients and how to keep them?
- Reading to time
- Making a showreel
- The different people and organisations that need voice-overs
- How to deal with producers?
Who Should Attend!
- All voice over enthusiasts. If you think have a voice that people keep complimenting then you may have the raw material to make a career in the world voice-overs.