Voice Acting and Building a Portfolio07.03.09
Doing What You Love – Voice Acting/Recording
- Start building “content” to your portfolio by doing what you love. Aurally Dramatizing small segments for a podcast or get started on audio content of your own.
- Audio dramas and commercials – think like an animated feature. If you close your eyes, you can see all the action and energy independent of the animation. You can fully understand what is happening in the show without seeing it. The animation just adds a picture to the sound, not the other way around.
- Pick a Podcast and Volunteer. Even though they get great stuff for free, you get to add all the work you do for them to a portfolio and other people contact you for jobs from there.
Word to the Wise
Any of the art forms, music, film, art, acting, even voice acting literally have tons of people vying for the same jobs. You have to have a portfolio in order to get interviewed or hired. Despite the economic down-turn, this should not dissuade you from pursuing something you are passionate about or from building a portfolio. Just do it better than the next person. Use your great marketing mind to take it a step beyond what other people have settled on.
What I am Doing
I started out recording my own compositions, but I digressed into podcasting (perhaps I will disclose what those are later). I have taken the idea of building a portfolio and adding lots of content, then adding that content to the appropriate music networks so people can find me, down load, or sync license any of my work.
Every intuitive internet marketing of one’s own product has stated that social networking is the way to go. People have to be able to find you and find out what you are doing. A really great podcast for ideas is called “Intuitive Internet Marketing.”
How to get traffic to your work? I am still working to figure all this out, but I am happy to share what I learn and what I am doing. For the time being some links to information about voice acting.
Articles on Voice Acting
Information on recording is also included here:
- Information on Recording
- How to get Employed doing Voice Acting
- Voice Chasers -Viewing this made me realize that upscale projects such those in the film industry work a lot like S.A.G. Unfortunately, that is a union. However, lots and lots of independent films and other projects need voices.
- Making Connections – Basically the network of independent film and voice
| Suzanna Reeves www.neutrinomusic.com Suzanna has been sound recording on computers since the advent of home digital recording. She has founded her own record label, recordedand published music and produced audio dramas and podcast. Anyone with the right knowledge and tools can do it. Subscribe today! Follow me- @suzannareeves |
Neutrino Music is a fully independent record label founded in 1999. It is wholly owned and operated by its only artist, Suzanna Reeves. Neutrino Music’s head office is currently located in Inland Empire, CA.