There's Money Where Your Mouth Is : An Insider's Guide to a Career in Voice-Overs

by CLARK, ELAINE A.

• ISBN13: 9780823077021
• ISBN10: 0823077020
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Back Stage Books

Summary

Voice-overs represent a wonderful opportunity for actors - and a potentiallyucrative enterprise. The voice-over field is one of the best ways to pay theills while exploring stage and screen work. Or it can become a fascinatingareer in itself, as author Elaine Clark demonstrates in this expandeddition of her voice-over career guide.;Clark shows actors - as well ason-actors with superior vocal presence - how to start a career in thisoorly-understood field. She begins by explaining the basics of the industrynd demonstrating how prospective voice-over performers can best markethemselves through the use of agents, mailings and demo tapes. Subsequenthapters are devoted to such topics as vocal preparation, the basics ofeading copy, the distinction between an announcer, a spokesperson, and aharacter, how to "hide the sell", how to branch out from commercials tondustrial narrations and talking books, and how to work in a recordingtudio and use a microphone to best effect.;This expanded edition includesew insider's tips on making a demo CD; coverage of vocal "melody" modulation

Author Biography

Elaine A. Clark is a voice and on-camera actor who has been seen and heard in hundreds of commercials, video games, websites, talking toys and other voiced products, corporate industrials, and voice mail systems. In 1986 she founded Voice One, one of the oldest voice-over and acting schools of its kind. While the primary focus is on commercial, character, and corporate voice-overs, Ms. Clark and her staff of working professionals also teach stage, film, commercial, and corporate on-camera acting. There is a series of voice-over training videos, CDs and cassette tapes for sale through the company website. To find out more, visit www.VoiceOneonline.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(11)
Introduction	11	(4)
Getting Started	15	(7)
Voice--Over Aerobics	22	(9)
Copy Basics	31	(11)
Hiding ``The Sell''	42	(9)
Making it M.I.N.E.	51	(7)
Putting Melody in Your Voice	58	(5)
Copywriter's Intention	63	(4)
Layering Techniques	67	(5)
Believing What You Say	72	(3)
Tags, Donuts, and Promos	75	(7)
Announcer	82	(10)
Spokesperson	92	(9)
Real--Person Spots	101	(10)
Characters	111	(11)
Multiples	122	(13)
Industrial Narrations	135	(13)
Multimedia and Audio Books	148	(15)
The Demo	163	(18)
Getting an Agent	181	(21)
Marketing Your Talent	202	(11)
Staying on Top of the Business	213	(9)
Epilogue: The Pep Talk	222	(2)
Glossary	224	(5)
Index	229