How to Get Animation Voice-Over Work
Okay, so before we dive into this thing – there’s one thing I want to say, because I know there’s at least ONE person who needs to hear this: Voice acting for animation is AWESOME and if that’s the type …
5 Tips for Taking your Voice-Over Business to the Next Level
Selling a service in 2016 is a very different endeavor than it was even a few short years ago. The increasingly easy access to the internet and to more advanced features on social media platforms have changed the ways in …
Building Your Brand in Voice-Over
You’ve invested a significant amount of time, effort and money into developing your acting chops and producing your demos. Next, to give yourself the best chance for success, you’ve got to develop your marketing and promotional chops, as well. You’ve …
Creating Your Voice-Over Business Plan
We’ve all heard the term business plan. Fundamentally, the term seems straight forward, but what is a business plan really? Is it just your brilliant idea on a napkin, your secret sauce to creating millions in your voice-over business, …
Helpful Vocal Care Tips
Taking care of your health can mean different things to different people, as can taking care of your voice. But the two are also integrally related. Now, I come at this from the point of view of someone who has …
The Importance of Networking for Voice Over – You've got to be seen to be heard
In this article, I’ll be talking about the importance of networking for your voice acting career. And, if you’re anything like me, your face is probably scrunching like a lemon right now, just thinking about it. When I first got …
Voice Over Technique: Breathing, Posture, and Alignment
Good posture is so important for our well-being, but it is essential in voice over. Many of us roll our shoulders inward, let our head and neck jut forward or fall back and let our abdominal muscles slack. This is …
Inside Tips to a Great Voice Over Audition
An essential skill that every voice-over talent must posses is the ability to audition well. Although you can (and should!) book directly off your demo, you’ll get the majority of your jobs based on an audition. Auditions can be used …
Focus on the Listener: Improving your VO Reads
One thing that is universal about voice over artists is that we want to do great work. We want to ‘sound great’. But sometimes it is exactly that desire to sound awesome that can get in the way of the …
Inside the Voice Over Audition Room
When you begin your voice over journey, you are going to be discovering that there are so many ways to find work and auditions in this business. Occasionally you can book work straight through your voice over demo. Quite frequently …
How I Got Into the Voice-Over Business
Here’s how it happened for me. I fell into the voice-over business in a rather nontraditional way. Sometime in 2009 I met a voice-over artist. I’d never met somebody who did voice-overs for a living. In fact, I’d never even …
Go The Extra Mile: How To Impress Voice Over Clients
The following is from the Such A Voice archive, written by Catherine Marshall: In a competitive industry like voice overs, it is important to go the extra mile to impress your clients. The more icing you put on the …