Designing your Demo
Lesson 35 from: Voice-Over for Real People: Complete Freelancing GuideKeith Harris
Designing your Demo
Lesson 35 from: Voice-Over for Real People: Complete Freelancing GuideKeith Harris
Lessons
Welcome to the world of Voice Over
1Introduction
02:13What Is Voice Over?
2Myth Busting
03:17 3Where is all the money?
02:54 4Quiz: What Is Voice Over
The Voice Over Performance
5A Conversation With One Person
03:34Vocal Warm Up
03:43 7Breaking Down the Delivery Components
04:21 8Nailing the Feel
04:55 9Hitting or Noticing Words
03:28 10Becoming an Actor
03:26 11The Magic of Lists
04:34 12Five Key Characters
04:03 13Tongue Twisters
04:19 14Mic Technique and Studio Etiquette
01:44 15Quiz: Voice Over Performance
Case Studies
16Education in Mauritius
03:12 17The Ventsar ColorTouch
06:04 18Dodge Maps
04:16 19Quiz: case Studies
The Home Studio
20Check List
02:46 21Microphones
06:34 22Preamps
02:51 23Finishing the Check List
04:33 24Creating Your Recording Space
04:57 25Sound Proof Booths
03:34 26Quiz: Home Studio
Closing
27Practice and Review
02:58 28Quiz: Closing
Recording and Editing
29Live Recording Session
10:01 30Adding Music
06:41 31Placing Audio into a Video
06:10 32Extra Services
04:23 33Quiz: Recording & Editing
Making a Demo
34Your Demo is your Business Card
05:48 35Designing your Demo
02:30 36Recording Your Demo
03:25 37Quiz: Making a Demo
Self Employment
38Customer Service
04:37 39Expectations and Delivery
03:57 40Storage and Organization
03:31 41Gig Photo and the Fiverr Forum
03:56 42Quiz: Self Employment
Vocal Health
43Water and Sleep
04:15 44Recording When Sick
04:17 45Quiz: Vocal Health
Staying Motivated
46Setting Goals
02:52 47Daily Schedule and Fiverr Forum
04:06 48Nerves
02:52 49Bonus Vocal Exercises
03:57 50Take a Break
01:51 51Quiz: Staying Motivated
Final Quiz
52Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Designing your Demo
as you noted from the previous lesson, A good demo has a mix of styles and subjects which show the client the kinds of reeds they can expect from you when creating your first demo, it's best to focus on four styles with the goal of making a 62nd demo. For example, you might pick one up, beat the one day sale to guy next door. The friendly tech commercial, number three serious, a healthcare commercial and number four, maybe a special niche, technical, medical tours, etcetera, something like that. All four of these offer a completely different energy and a completely different approach. A quick note on company names while a demo is a representation of how you perform and not a claim of having been hired by a specific company for their advertising. I do recommend against using specific company names in your demo. Once you have voiced a project for that company, then you can use that clip with their permission in your demo. But up front, stick to the style more than a specific company. So ...
where do we find these scripts? Do not simply copy the demos you studied. If you really like a certain script, you can use your own version of it. Making changes to make it your own, but please do not just copy another artist's demo scripts come from a wide variety of places if you like writing, feel free to create your own from scratch other places to find scripts. Are youtube videos and commercials, magazines and ads in newspapers. Company F A. Q. S often found on their websites and this of course is just the short list of places you can find inspiration. I recommend finding many more scripts than you need. For example, you might want to record 10 or 15 scripts and then pick the best four or five to put on your demo. If you only pick four and you only record for, you might be cutting yourself short. As I mentioned in the previous lesson, do not cut this process short. Take the time to study a wide variety of reeds so that you can create the best demo possible. I promise the time spent creating a good demo will have a massive impact on your ability to book work. In the next lesson, we'll discuss the recording session itself and options for mixing and editing.
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