There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: A Complete Insider's Guide to Earning Income and Building a Career in Voice-Overs

There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: A Complete Insider's Guide to Earning Income and Building a Career in Voice-Overs

by ElaineA.Clark (Author)

Synopsis

Voices are increasingly in demand for commercials, cartoon characters, announcements, and other spots. This outstanding handbook explains how to launch a career and find work. Along with sample commercials and script copy, the author gives advice on vocal exercises, self-promotion, and business matters. Chapters include: getting started, voice-over aerobics, copy basics, melody and tempo, layering techniques, believing what you say, commercial and stylized characters, corporate narration, animation, video games and toys, getting an agent, marketing your talent, and staying on top of the business. This expanded edition features new tips on making a demo CD, vocal modulation and breath techniques, advanced copy-reading strategies, and a section on how copywriters see the job of the voice artists for whom they write. If you've ever been interested in voice-over acting, you need this book!

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: 3 Original
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: 19 Jan 2012

ISBN 10: 1581158785
ISBN 13: 9781581158786
Book Overview: A complete and indispensable guide to launching a career in the lucrative field of voice-over work.

Media Reviews
In today's competitive voice-over market, it's all about specifics. From acting to analyzing copy to agents and marketing, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is generously outlines and details the business of voice-over. --Bob Bergen, Emmy Award-and Annie Award-nominated voice actor and Porky Pig on Cartoon Network''s The Looney Tunes Show
Author Bio
For more than twenty-five years, Elaine Clark has performed in commercials (Clorox, Macy's, TiVo, Amazon.com, Panera Bread), video games (Aliens, Dark Wizard, Spawn, Mario's Time Machine, D2), corporate narrations (Microsoft, Oracle, Kmart, Genentech, Cisco), anime (Saikano, Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure, Film Noir), voicemail systems, talking products, and toys. She is the owner of Voice One in San Francisco, a voice-over, acting, and improv training academy. In addition to performing and teaching, Elaine Clark is also a freelance director, producer, casting director, and audio engineer. She lives in Hayward, California.