Acting : Getting Into Voiceover Acting by Tammy Hunt

Getting Into Voiceover Acting

Becoming a voice actor is similar to pursuing a career as a film, TV or stage actor (or most other performing arts careers, really). You start with nothing, train yourself and look for voice acting jobs you can book. You’ll need just two things: 1-Your voice demo reel; 2-Membership on a casting website like Actors Access and LA Casting It’s really that simple, but let’s break it down a little.

Here’s the secret: the easiest way to get into voice acting is to just start. Begin with anything. Just put together a simple voice over reel with whatever you have and start submitting. Stop preparing yourself, stop trying to find the best way, stop “figuring things out.” Simply submit yourself for voice jobs and see what happens. It’s true, you will suck at this in the beginning. You won’t book most of the stuff you go for. And you will most likely fail, many times. But failure is the best experience you can have, and that’s how you learn quickest. You have to step beyond your comfort zone. With that out of the way, there are things you can (and should) do to improve your chances of booking voice acting jobs.

This is what you do on the side as you continue to audition and look through voice acting casting calls every day:

-Get some voice over training under your belt

-Put together a voice over demo reel

-Market yourself and your voice within the industry

-Start networking and making connections

-Get a VO agent

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