VO: Tales and Techniques of a Voice-Over Actor
One of the country’s top voice-over talents shares his secrets of success in an insider’s guide to the industry. Actors, broadcasters, and anyone who has longed to earn a living by speaking into a microphone will cherish this insightful and often hilarious glimpse at the business. Coverage includes:

• Identifying natural talent • Training a voice to make it commercially viable • Gaining experience in smaller markets • Making a demo CD • Auditioning effectively • Locating and signing with an agent • Joining the appropriate unions • Negotiating contracts • Self-promoting to maximize exposure

Reflecting the quantum change that has occurred in the way voice-overs are recorded and cast in recent years, the updated Second Edition describes the advantages and disadvantages of auditioning and recording from home studios for clients around the world. This indispensable guide also addresses finding work in venues outside film and television, such as games, automated telephone systems, and websites. Aspiring and established voice-over actors will savor the behind-the-scenes details that show what actually happens during a voice-over recording session. Through it all, the author pairs performance tips with an expanded personal account of the crazed clients, practical jokes, and coincidences encountered on the long journey to success.

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
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VO: Tales and Techniques of a Voice-Over Actor
One of the country’s top voice-over talents shares his secrets of success in an insider’s guide to the industry. Actors, broadcasters, and anyone who has longed to earn a living by speaking into a microphone will cherish this insightful and often hilarious glimpse at the business. Coverage includes:

• Identifying natural talent • Training a voice to make it commercially viable • Gaining experience in smaller markets • Making a demo CD • Auditioning effectively • Locating and signing with an agent • Joining the appropriate unions • Negotiating contracts • Self-promoting to maximize exposure

Reflecting the quantum change that has occurred in the way voice-overs are recorded and cast in recent years, the updated Second Edition describes the advantages and disadvantages of auditioning and recording from home studios for clients around the world. This indispensable guide also addresses finding work in venues outside film and television, such as games, automated telephone systems, and websites. Aspiring and established voice-over actors will savor the behind-the-scenes details that show what actually happens during a voice-over recording session. Through it all, the author pairs performance tips with an expanded personal account of the crazed clients, practical jokes, and coincidences encountered on the long journey to success.

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
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VO: Tales and Techniques of a Voice-Over Actor

VO: Tales and Techniques of a Voice-Over Actor

by Harlan Hogan
VO: Tales and Techniques of a Voice-Over Actor

VO: Tales and Techniques of a Voice-Over Actor

by Harlan Hogan

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Overview

One of the country’s top voice-over talents shares his secrets of success in an insider’s guide to the industry. Actors, broadcasters, and anyone who has longed to earn a living by speaking into a microphone will cherish this insightful and often hilarious glimpse at the business. Coverage includes:

• Identifying natural talent • Training a voice to make it commercially viable • Gaining experience in smaller markets • Making a demo CD • Auditioning effectively • Locating and signing with an agent • Joining the appropriate unions • Negotiating contracts • Self-promoting to maximize exposure

Reflecting the quantum change that has occurred in the way voice-overs are recorded and cast in recent years, the updated Second Edition describes the advantages and disadvantages of auditioning and recording from home studios for clients around the world. This indispensable guide also addresses finding work in venues outside film and television, such as games, automated telephone systems, and websites. Aspiring and established voice-over actors will savor the behind-the-scenes details that show what actually happens during a voice-over recording session. Through it all, the author pairs performance tips with an expanded personal account of the crazed clients, practical jokes, and coincidences encountered on the long journey to success.

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621534051
Publisher: Allworth
Publication date: 08/05/2014
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Harlan Hogan has been a voice-actor for thirty-five years, and odds are, you already know what he sounds like. His commercial voice-overs include classic and contemporary ad slogans from “Raid. Kills bugs fast, kills bugs dead” and Life Cereal’s “It’s the cereal even Mikey likes,” to “This PBS program is made possible by viewers like you” and “Ford F-150. How’s that for trendy?” Twenty-six million online gamers hear him as the voice of Alistar in League of Legends, while filmgoers see and hear him in the fea-ture-length film Dimension. He’s equally at home narrating documentaries like Fannie’s Last Supper and Storm Warriors, as well as voice-overs for political candidates from mayors to presidents. He lives in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 The worst voice in the whole third grade: Talking Robots, Rockets, and the Recordio 5

Techniques of a Voice-Over: Talking Inside the Box: Training, Technique, Tools, and Talent-the Four Ts of Voice-Over 10

Chapter 2 Stumbling Through School: Reagan, Radio, and a Whale of a Roommate 16

Techniques of a Voice-Over: Coining a Phrase-Spinning Words Into Gold? 24

Chapter 3 Indiana Air Waves: Big Time in the Small Time, But Dick Clark Never Called 28

Techniques of a Voice-Over: Free and Not-So-Free Voice-Over Classes-From "Wannabe" to "Newbie" 34

Chapter 4 No Sale-Could there be a worse computer salesman? 41

Techniques of a Voice-Over Storytellers of the Electronic Age-Ask the Right Questions, Tell the Right Story 45

Chapter 5 An Accidental Actor 51

Techniques of a Voice-Over Radio and TV Voice-Overs-The Skills, the Opportunities

Chapter 6 Recorder's Revenge 61

Techniques of a Voice-Over Long-Form Voice-Overs-The Skills, the Opportunities 65

Chapter 7 The Teamsters Made Me Change My Name 70

Techniques of a Voice-Over Corporate Voice-Overs-The Skills, the Opportunities 73

Chapter 8 WCLR and the Big Bang Theory 77

Techniques of a Voice-Over: Character Voices and Your Multiple Personalities-The Skills, the Opportunities, the Misconceptions 81

Chapter 9 No Longer a "Wannabe"-Fast-Forward on the Right Track 85

Techniques of a Voice-Over: Other Voice Work-The Skills, the Opportunities, the Talking Beer Bottle Openers 89

Chapter 10 In July-Inside Jokes of the Voice-Overs 93

Techniques of a Voice-Over: Flying Solo-Performing Alone 100

Chapter 11 Smack Dab in the golden Age of Voice-Over 103

Techniques of a Voice-Over: Playing Well with Others-The Art of Dialogue 106

Chapter 12 Say the secret word-"Blooper's Soap" 110

Techniques of a Voice-Oven Making the First or Fiftieth Voice Demo-A Never-Ending Project 117

Chapter 13 The Voice Talent's Connection-Go Ahead, Make My Day…Beep Me! 122

Techniques of a Voice-Over: All About Agents-Hearts of Gold 126

Chapter 14 What planet are you from? Brand Managers-Be Afraid, Be very Afraid 132

Techniques of a Voice-Over: All About Auditions-The Art of One-Upmanship 136

Chapter 15 A Remarkable way to make a buck-plates, statues, and the People who collect them 140

Techniques of a Voice-Oven Terms of Employment-Talking the Talk 144

Chapter 16 Whispers in the Air-Got Yai 151

Techniques of a Voice-Oven Studio Smarts-Twenty Studio Commandments for VOs 155

Chapter 17 Talking in Corporate Tongues-This May not sound like English 159

Techniques of a Voice-Over: All About the Unions-To Join or Not to Join? That Is the Question 164

Chapter 18 Prescription Drugs and those Pesky Contraindications-Side Effects worse than the Disease 167

Internet Casting: Hire a Voice the Way You Book a Hotel Room?-Expedia Meets Shaw Business 171

Chapter 19 The Fine Art of Directing Voice-Overs-Real Voice Men Don't Ask… 174

Techniques of a Voice-Oven Preserving the Tools of the Trade-Although I'm Not A Doctor, I've Played One on TV 179

Chapter 20 Behind the Scenes-The Real Work Behind Voice Work

Techniques of a Voice-Oven Persistent, Perpetual Self-Promotion-So Enough About Me… How Do You Feel About Me? 187

Chapter 21 Soon-To-Be-Famou Acquaintances 193

Techniques of a Voice-Oven: You, Yourself, and the IRS-The Business of Show Business 197

Chapter 22 Acting Up, Cracking Up, Choking Up 201

Techniques of a Voice-Oven: A Studio of Your Own 205

Chapter 23 What is it that you do do? Filibuster! 209

Postscript: Questions from a Teenage "Wannabe" Voice-Over 214

Resources 216

Index 220

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