In a Voiceover business you wear many hats and juggle a multitude of balls. You are an actor, solopreneur, narrator, marketing manager, storyteller, audio engineer, accountant, researcher, studio manager, social media guru, I could go on, but you get the idea. General day-to-day admin tasks and paperwork slows down not only your productivity but your […]
Your voice over showreel is one of your most important marketing tools, it’s a part of the display in your shop window. Your showreel highlights many of your vocal talents, people you have worked with and what market your voice suits best. It’s not a once in a lifetime piece of work either. As your […]
Guy Michaels, with 20 years in corporate voiceover and as director of Voiceover Kickstart, gives very frank and practical advice to anyone considering a voiceover career. 1. HOW DO I BREAK INTO VOICEOVER? For a break-in to occur suggests that something, in this case the Voiceover Industry, is locked. It is not. If by ‘break […]
With the software and hardware available for recording audio these days being so familiar and affordable, the old prohibitive barriers are gone, and a home studio is generally now within everyone’s reach. This change has been happening for a long time, and as a sound engineer & audio consultant who has worked in the post […]
Receiving an opportunity to audition for a client is an exciting prospect – who’s it for, what’s involved, how come I’m having a day off and they need it yesterday? All valid questions. Once you’ve got your head around the ins and outs of the project it’s time to record. You record your best two […]
Nailing the tone, pace, style and intonation of different types of voiceover project can be a challenge. In the video below Joe records a demo company explainer video read-through for us with the various voiceover styles, tones and intonations required to give a convincing performance. Welcome to the VoicesUK blog. Here we explore all […]
There are a lot of great voices in the world, but only a select few are able to break into the voice-acting industry and become familiar to millions. Although natural talent goes a long way to making someone a successful voice actor, that’s far from the only factor. In order for a voice actor to […]
I’ve been running one to one voice over sessions at the Actors Centre, in London, for over ten years. I must say many of those who come to see me, including trained actors, have a very confused idea of what voice over is about. Old myths about “doing accents” or mastering perfect RP are still […]
eLearning is a major game changer in corporate and educational markets and is hot stuff in the voiceover industry too. People don’t have time for the old classroom, top‐down regime of learning when our wealth of information is exploding exponentially. Spending years in college learning information that may be dated or obsolete by the time […]
I wanted to share the system I use for prepping any non-fiction title I narrate; though I, and many of my students, also use this method in a slightly different form for fiction titles, as well. Its purpose is to allow me to gather as much information as possible regarding the project, so that when […]
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