Fantastic, I had a friend back in the 80's who tried to break into voice over work and never succeeded. You have a gift.

Cool to understand the origin of your tag. Very smooth, btw.

That is great ... ! Listened to the intro a few times enjoying my morning coffee and a grin on my face.

What timing! I was just informed that my brother in law is considering doing some voiceover work. Do you have any advice that you might share? If not here my email is in m profile. Thanks,

Jim

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Originally posted by rsbolo:
That was great! Cliff, have you ever done any, I don't know what it is called...Voice Work? Creating audiobooks?

Yes I did. Started off back in the day as a book Narrator. Now it's audiobook Narrator. This was a lot harder to do more so then VO work. you have to tell a story. Act. It depends on the characters in the book. Different accents, male, female, dialects you may have to use. I did a lot of history and some medical books for people who were blind. Fuck! that was hard. Enunciation and context of a word had to be spot on which meant a lot of times I had to research the meaning of a word. VO work was so much easier.


[Quote]What timing! I was just informed that my brother in law is considering doing some voiceover work. Do you have any advice that you might share? If not here my email is in m profile. Thanks,

Jim [Quote]

Jim, he needs to make a audition tape. Well, nowadays it's a audition mp3 or thumbdrive that he can send out to potential clients. 5 to 8 different commercial samples with or without background music each about 5 to 15 seconds long.
Access to a studio or the ability to set up a home studio. Nothing elaborate for the home. A quality microphone hooked up to a good sound card and editing software.
He may want to consider taking classes from a voice coach. A voice coach helped me quite a bit in different dialects and colloquialism's used in advertising for different products.
being able to network. Put your audition tape out there. Meaning make a list of agents that you can get from a SAG person in your city. SAG is Screen Actors Guild.
Have a thick skin. Be prepared to be rejected. A lot.But, all it takes is one to get you started.

Hope this helps.