There's Money Where Your Mouth Is
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There's Money Where Your Mouth Is

A Complete Insider's Guide to Earning Income and Building a Career in Voice-Overs

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

There's Money Where Your Mouth Is

A Complete Insider's Guide to Earning Income and Building a Career in Voice-Overs

About this book

Voices are increasingly in demand for commercials, cartoon characters, announcements, and other spots. This outstanding handbook explains how to launch a career and?nd 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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Information

Publisher
Allworth
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781581158786
eBook ISBN
9781621533788
Edition
3
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Careers

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. DEDICATION
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. I. BUILDING A FOUNDATION
  9. Chapter 1 GETTING STARTED
  10. Chapter 2 VOICE-OVER AEROBICS, CARE, & HEALTH
  11. Chapter 3 COPY BASICS
  12. Chapter 4 HIDING “THE SELL”
  13. Chapter 5 MAKING IT M.I.N.E.ℱ
  14. Chapter 6 MELODY & TEMPO
  15. Chapter 7 COPYWRITER’S INTENTION: DIRECTING TALENT & YOURSELF
  16. Chapter 8 LAYERING TECHNIQUES
  17. Chapter 9 BELIEVING WHAT YOU SAY
  18. II. PUTTING IT TO PRACTICE
  19. Chapter 10 TAGS, DONUTS, PROMOS, & TRAILERS
  20. Chapter 11 ANNOUNCER
  21. Chapter 12 SPOKESPERSON
  22. Chapter 13 REAL PERSON
  23. Chapter 14 COMMERCIAL CHARACTERS
  24. Chapter 15 MULTIPLES
  25. Chapter 16 CORPORATE NARRATION & DOCUMENTARIES
  26. Chapter 17 AUDIOBOOKS
  27. Chapter 18 ANIMATION, VIDEO GAMES, & TOYS
  28. III. GETTING THE WORK
  29. Chapter 19 THE DEMO
  30. Chapter 20 GETTING AN AGENT LOCALLY & BEYOND
  31. Chapter 21 MARKETING YOUR TALENT
  32. Chapter 22 STAYING ON TOP OF THE BUSINESS
  33. Chapter 23 EPILOGUE: THE PEP TALK
  34. GLOSSARY

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