A career in voice acting?
I'm a working voice actor giving you the REAL DEAL! I have a bass/baritone voice and it keeps me busy. Voice Acting is one of the HARDEST forms of acting to get into because your face and body is not seen so you have to be able to effectively convey emotions in your reading. It's more than just reading off of the page. You can be a Robert De Niro on camera, but it does NOT mean that your acting will translate with just your voice. Good voiceover training consists of proper vocal exercises and warmup, proper diction in American standard English, breaking down a VO script into phrases and being able to analyze it, and being able to make that script come to life with your imagination and not just some regular read, and proper mic technique. Improv is also highly recommended as well for you want to be able to loosen up and use your imagination when you're in that isolation chamber (recording booth). When you're recording for the producers, you'll be asked to do multiple takes and say a line or script differently. Improv helps with that! Getting into SERIOUS voice over acting is a hefty investment. Largely because you have to invest hundreds even thousands of dollars in putting together a demo reel that shows your range as a voice actor. There are different types of voiceovers. Commercials are the biggest chunk. Then there are promo, narrative, foreign language, audiobook, and animation. In animation, you want to create original characters, NOT imitations of Bart Simpson, etc. Once you have a demo done, you mail them out to Voice Over Agents. They're the ones who get you auditions. If I had to recommend a book, I think The Art of Voice Acting, 3rd edition by James R. Alburger is a good place to start. He also gives recommendations for other Voiceover resources as well. Here's a great Voice Acting resource site: http://voiceacting.com
How can I start voice acting?
Hey!So you’re actually asking a common question, it’s okay though.Here’s a link that pretty much answers your question in great detail that I answered for someone with practically the same question; Nat Pipitone's answer to Where can I find voiceover jobs for anime in Portland, OR?Hope this helps!Feel free to message me for any assistance.
How do you build a career in voice acting?
Voice acting is a broad term but if we are talking about radio and tv commercials you should look for studios and production companies in this line of business. Some producers prefer ready-made presentations, some – including myself – prefer seeing and listening to a talent in person. In both cases, it is still a good idea to make a demo that has different styles of voice overs you can do. That way there is at least some kind of reference to your voice in their archives.My advice for a demo is to start with presenting yourself, your name, birth year (it is better than your age because that changes every year), a few words about your experience if you have any and that’s it. No long biographies. Then a medley of voiceovers with different styles eg. a corporate style VO, a lively narrative, an enthusiastic “hard sell VO”, a “soft sell VO” and a dialog or other type of demo that shows your ability to do characters. If you are into dubbing, you can do impressions and funny voices too. Don’t make the demo too long.As I said, I like to arrange an audition for new talents so I can see how they perform. A demo mp3 does not tell how much time has been used for it or from how many takes the final version has been edited. I need to know how well the talent can adjust to given directions and how versatile his/her voice is. I will always record the auditions so I will have a high-quality demo and I will give it to the talents for their personal use also.Sometimes, or to be exact, almost every time, the time is an essence, so when hiring a voice over talent I can’t just try many candidates. I need to go for the one I think does the best work in this particular script. I think this is a pretty universal thing with producers. We are looking for talents who can do the job quickly and are fun to work with, so aim to be one.
How do I start career in acting at age 22?
How do I start career in acting at age 22? I know this, kinda random but extremely talented actor. I just know it I'm better actor then Selena Gomez. My question how do start career in acting? Also I don't care what anyone thinks I do have talent. Also acting is my passion it's what I want to do rest of my life. What should I do? Also be honest
How hard is it to get into the voice acting industry?
In my opinion, there’s a difference between working as a voice-over artist, and working in voice acting.Voice-over artists may work in many different contexts: narration for web-based training, telephone answering systems, event announcements, etc. The voice acting “industry”, if I’m understanding your question correctly, is a reference to things like voices for animation and video games, stuff that involves acting.The animation voice world is a very tight-knit community, with many of the jobs going to a few highly talented and versatile people, and some known celebrities. However, there is a subset of the industry that produces versions of productions in other languages. I’ve done work on some of these productions, creating the English voice for a character in another language. There seems to be plenty of work in this area for talented people. This kind of work is also done for live action productions. There’s a documentary that was made about all the people in various countries who dub George Clooney’s voice.The video game voice world seems to be pretty open these days, but as the industry has become more lucrative, there has been a gradual trend towards the use of the same elite group of voice performers and celebrities that are being used in animation.How hard is it to get in? Depends on where you want to get in. I would recommend acting classes first, then voice acting classes, then finding an agent who handles voice actors.But if you just want to do voice-over, treat it like a business: don’t just post auditions at the voice brokerage sites and hope for something, start actively looking for clients. I would recommend taking some courses on the business of voice-over. Google for Harlan Hogan or Dan O’Day, they’ve offered great online courses in the past. There are many others as well.
Is it bad if your thinking about voice acting but have a monotone voice?
Getting any work at all as a voice actor is very difficult. Almost all work goes to real, professional actors, who have had many years training at accredited acting schools and also many years of experience, acting on stage and in films. They do voice-work in between ordinary acting roles. And the typical actor gets about 2 or 3 weeks' paid acting work a year - the rest of the time they all work in ordinary jobs just to afford their day-to-day living expenses. To become an actor you have to be able to adopt hundreds of different voices - if they want a high-pitched, animated voice, you have to be able to do it. If they want an accent, like English, French, Russian, Irish, Jamaican - whatever - you have to be able to do it. You have to be incredibly versatile. Your normal speaking voice would also have to be interesting, or you'd never get past the audition stage. if you sound boring, no-one is going to believe that you have the skills to do the job.