Article first published as Book Review:Voice-Over Voice Actor on Technorati.
Being an actor is one way to make a lot of money, another way to make a lot of money is to sell things to all the people who want to be actors. I have a small collection of Voice Over books, most of them say pretty much the same thing, but it is always nice to get a slightly different prospective.
One of the things they all agree on is that you must have a Demo and that you must have it done professionally. It’s no good to whip out a Demo you did in your garage with the sound of cars rolling by and those less than ideal acoustics. So they all advise that you take a few thousand dollars and take some classes and have a Demo, or several Demos, made professionally.
Voice-Over Voice Actor is written by Yuri Lowenhal and Tara Platt, a couple of fairly young-looking people who have been doing Voice Over for 12 years and have steady gigs doing cartoons and video games. They also take any other work that their voices are suitable for. The best info in Voice-Over Voice Actor is that any kind of voice can finds its way into the profession as there are now so many products and roles need to be filled.
With chapters like Finding Your Voice, The Audition Itself, What To Do To Get Started, and The Demo Yuri and Tara cover all the basics. They include a number of exercises and tips and a nice glossary of terms common to the world of Voice Over acting. There are also a few bits of sample copy for you to practice with. There are cute little cartoons at the end of each chapter and the overall tone of the book is a nice mixture of informal and informative.
The only thing missing from Voice-Over Voice Actor was a CD in the back of the book with vocal exercises and examples of the kind of work that the authors do. Voice-Over Voice Actor‘s companion website is colorful and has a few additional voice exercises.
