All hail the Interweb! (tee-hee!) With its global reach, the Web provides us voiceover masters the chance to branch off and communicate on a level never ever seen before in history. It's remarkable to believe that just 20 years back, no one even knew what the Internet was or what it would suggest to society. And now take a look at us. What would we do without it? Well, among the important things we voice skills wouldn't be able to do is promote ourselves globally.
You will also get strange requests. A television station called me one afternoon desiring me to be the voice of a golf ball for an animated area for an upcoming golf event. I complied and the area exercised well thank goodness. They had me cry out as the golf ball (me) dropped into the hole!
For instance, have a listen to their demo's and choose if they're of a much greater standard than yours. Do they have appealing and clear profile picture which can be necessary to attract employers attention by providing the voice over in a personable method? Take a look at your voice description. Does it stick out? What about your acting bio, does it include unimportant individual details? This space ought to be used to explain your voice and your professionalism. Have you made that additional effort to gather testimonials from people who can vouch for you and your capacity? This can even be the person who cut your demonstration, or your acting instructor.
Now a lot of times I am worked with to develop voice overs for sales videos. Sales videos are preferred on the internet nowadays. As more and more people are trying to make money by offering numerous products online they need a high quality voice over to be the voice of their "sales person". That's where I come in. I create the voice over for their sales videos promoting whatever product they're promoting at the time. They offer me their sales script then I tape-record it and send it back to them and after that they sync my audio with their video to produce a dynamic sales video to sell their most current and biggest product. In some cases you'll discover voice over artists like me that can do the video portion too. You have actually just eliminated 2 birds with one stone when you do.
Keep your voice over demonstration short, sharp and straight to the point. Less than two minutes is best and ensure you display your best 3 pieces in the first 30 seconds. The first file should ideally be a tidy dry read with no music or impacts.
For example, you have a gravelly, low voice that's warm. You may offer yourself as the "Your Bourbon Straight-Up voice". Or you have a super-sweet female voice you would be "The Voice of a Princess", etc.
Nation folk, your biggest obstacle now is to get customers. Focus on getting your site seen (pay-per-click with
Google and Yahoo) and sending your link to all the regional business in your town. They'll be pleased to know they do not need to go far to get an expert voice over for their internal or business narration.
Naturally rules are
composed to be broken. There may be times when a sluggish fade actually attains your editorial purpose. Typically, though, you'll find tight fades really make your podcasts sound snappier and more professional.