Voice Acting Business

How you can start voice acting business, Strategies for managing your fees, Understand the elements of good performance

What you'll learn
Understanding the history and overview of voice acting
Learn the ways to improve your voice acting
Recognize your voice acting talent and potential
How to work in the business of voice acting
Setting your fees and managing your voice acting business
Using your instrument
Learn breath control for the voice actor
Learn voice and body exercise
The seven core elements of an effective performance
Developing style and technique for voice acting
Understanding articulation
Voice acting microphone techniques
Learn microphone placement and copy stand position
Tips for maintaining your voice and improving your performance
Requirements
No requirement
Description
We all know for years that voice acting is a performance art where actors use their own voices to entertain or market to their target audience. Do you know that voice acting is not just being able to do impressions or character voices but mostly it also requires some acting skills and competence, the talent of voice actors is through their voices, which they are able to dynamically change their voices in all situations to fix the assigned work and maintain their competence, to accomplished works or roles that has being given to them by their clients. A voice actor must be able to change inflections, provide different deliveries and impeccable articulation and be skillfully alter your tone for a program or sound bite. In this modern times many professional voice actors set up their own home made studio with soundproof and effectively use the for recording, auditioning or practicing for the greater good of their work as well as sharping their skills and competence.Currently the voice acting industry is highly competitive and finding voice acting work can take some time even for those with natural given talent with added gained knowledge through education and practicing, that is why it is very important to have your own business and creatively starting working on a very small scale to grow your business, build the necessary contact and if need be have the services of a reputable agent who can guide you and secure work for you with industry accepted commission. Voice actors can perform in various mediums such as audio books ,radio, television, film, e-learning, podcast and commercials. To stand out in this industry you need a great signature voice that can easily ring a bell in the ears of the industry professionals.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What is voice acting

Lecture 3 History and overview of voice acting

Lecture 4 Ways to improve your voice acting skills

Section 2: Recognizing Your Voice Acting Talent And Potential

Lecture 5 Get to know your voice through voice acting practice

Lecture 6 Learn and try the basic types of characters in voice acting roles

Lecture 7 Regularly get voice acting practice with sample script

Lecture 8 Basic information of voice acting

Section 3: How To Work In The Business Of Voice Acting

Lecture 9 Promoting and marketing your voice acting talent

Lecture 10 Finding and working with agents

Lecture 11 Getting the gig

Lecture 12 Searching for an agent

Lecture 13 Working with your agent

Lecture 14 A business plan for voice actor

Lecture 15 Making contact with prospective clients

Lecture 16 Follow - up

Lecture 17 Reaching the people who book talent

Section 4: Setting Your Fees And Managing Your Business

Lecture 18 Setting your talent fee

Lecture 19 Evaluate the job requirement

Lecture 20 Think like an entrepreneur

Lecture 21 Setting your fee

Lecture 22 What about all that equipment

Lecture 23 Buyout

Lecture 24 The agreement

Lecture 25 Negotiating your fee

Lecture 26 Getting paid for your work

Lecture 27 How to guarantee you will be paid

Lecture 28 Union compensation

Lecture 29 Product identification

Lecture 30 Keeping records

Section 5: Using Your Instrument

Lecture 31 All about your voice

Lecture 32 Your vocal presentation

Lecture 33 Breath control for the voice actor

Lecture 34 Breath conversationally

Lecture 35 Be easy on your self

Lecture 36 Exercise your voice and correct speech problems

Lecture 37 Unclear diction or lack of speech clarity

Lecture 38 Losing or dropping the end of words and lack of mobility

Lecture 39 Accent reduction or minimization

Lecture 40 Voice and body exercise

Section 6: The Seven Core Elements Of An Effective Performance

Lecture 41 Audience

Lecture 42 Backstory

Lecture 43 Character

Lecture 44 Desires

Lecture 45 Energy

Lecture 46 Forget who you are and focus

Lecture 47 Gamble

Section 7: Developing Style And Technique

Lecture 48 Style

Lecture 49 The road to proficiency

Lecture 50 The steps to creating an effective performance

Lecture 51 The elements of a voice acting performance techniques

Lecture 52 Performance dynamics

Lecture 53 Articulation

Section 8: Voice Acting Microphone Techniques

Lecture 54 Microphone basics

Lecture 55 Microphone placement and copy stand

Lecture 56 Working the microphone

Lecture 57 Using headphones

Lecture 58 Your signature voice

Producers, engineers, voice actors, presenters, advertisers, trainers, agents, musicians, actors, actresses, directors, manager, talent hunters, comedians, entertainers, bandsmen, vocal leaders, choirs, voice consultants, etc