Hi everyone! hope this Monday afternoon is treating you all well!
Ok, so a friend of mine has managed to get me into her boyfs recording studio to do a voice reel for next to no money -which is great! the only problem is im not sure what material to use or indeed where to get it from. I have quite a few cartoony type voices I can do and I also wanted to show a range of accents but im not sure what to for my ordinary voice for adverts etc. Also I read in the stage that you shouldnt do different accents and an animation voice reel should be seperate to a normal one is this true?? So really my questions are:
Any good script ideas/forums?
How do you decide whats right for your voice?
Can you use scripts taken directly from adverts?
Do you keep animation. accents seperate?
Any advice would be great! thanks in advance and sorry for the long speil!! xx
Hi Stephanie, all good points from Bernard. Also, you might want to read a couple of threads I started about voiceovers which you might find useful. As for anim voicereel it should definitely be separate from your main compilation voicereel (and your narration voicereel). Just to clarify narration voicereel means corporate/docu reads and the likes - not audio drama, which should also be on a separate reel. Good luck!
I think for a voicereel its really worth spending those extra pennies. Poor production, regardless of your talents, could let you down. "Crying Out Loud" made my voicereel, and i cant speak highly enough of them.
I agree with Simon about Crying Out Loud. If you're doing your first Voice reel they're great. They give great direction.
In regards to finding material, you need to know what your voice suits and what it would sell. This may be different to your acting playing age. You need to know whether your voice is hard sell or soft sell (hard sell think of land of leather commercials, soft sell think pantene). Play to these strengths rather than trying to be too versatile....you can demonstrate that you can do accents but to be honest if they want somebody with a particular accent they're more likely to go to somebody who has it as they're 'native' accent. My advice would be to listen to loads of radio and commercials that sound similar to you and write down the scripts.
I do agree that as a voiceover artist you have to be able to follow direction. I have done a lot of work where the script doesn't make sense (or one particular occasion where they asked me to be more 'purple') and you just have to do it...it is a job after all but for your voicereel you have to show off your best assets and what you can sell so that they'll employ you in the first place.
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