Diary Of A Voice-Over Artist In Training, Part 3

The third edition of the series. Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here.

Friday December 20, 2013 4:30PM EST--My books came today. Last week I decided to do some extra work and study on my own, so I turned in 40 credit card points and got a $50 Barnes and Noble certificate. With this I bought 2 books.

The  Book of Audacity, by Carla Schroder. Now I can be an Audacity wizard!
Stella Adler-On The Art And Technique Of Acting, compiled by Howard Kissel (with a forward by Marlon Brando). This is  widely considered to be one of the premier books on acting.

Thursday January 2, 2014 6:15PM EST-- Email from SAV, another storm, another delay in the seminar. Now it's Saturday, Jan 18th.

Monday January 13, 2014 2:15PM EST-- During last week's session, Angela and I went over a whole bunch of questions to help finalize the scripts for my demo. We went over my favorite things in all kinds of categories from travel, food, dream jobs and a slew  of other subjects.

I just checked my email and my scripts are in! I have 5 commercials and 4 narrations.

Commercials: "Ellio's Pizza", "Garmin", "Miracle-Gro", "Hyundai Santa Fe", "LL Bean"
Narrations: "Blue Cross Blue Shield MA On-Hold Message", "Identifying Customer Need", "Physics Demonstration", "Iceland"

Saturday January 18, 2014 5:00PM EST-- After 2 postponements, we finally had our seminar. We started with 7 students, but one left after lunch.

It was a long, fun, informative day. We went over many aspects of V.O. from performance to script analysis, to the equipment you need for your home studio and briefly touched on marketing techniques and getting jobs. (Read more about it here.)


Wednesday January 22, 2014 7:00PM EST--  My 11th coaching session. Only 3 more to go. We started going over my demo scripts more in depth. And it's time to start working on my profile.


Wednesday February 12, 2014 7:00PM EST-- My last coaching session. Angela and I run through all the demo scripts and two extras. The extra scripts are one commercial and one narration from the lessons. For my commercial I chose "Disney Cruise Lines" and my narration is "Carteret Islands".

We also finalized my studio time. I'm going into Cyber Sound Studios in Boston (more on this in a later post.) Angela will be the producer of the demo. She has  been a great coach!


The "performance" part of my training is now over. Time to start marketing, and thus enters the second part of my package with SAV, although my training with them is essentially done. It's really all on me now. Time to start setting up my business!