Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The Work Worlds Of Male Voice Over Talents

By Kristen Baird


Most people seem to need a secondary income source during these challenging times. The demand for Male Voice Over Talents is on the rise. There's no promise of making a full-time career out of this work, but at least there is wide range of options. Opportunities for this work include studio recorded dramas, narrated text for audio instruction, and more.

Slightly faded but yet recognizable stars often accept sound studio acting roles because of their ease, when compared to visual media. There's no need for hours in makeup or costuming in a sound studio. Increasingly, even the biggest stars can be found doing voice for cartoon characters, particularly in feature-length cartoons. For many, the motivation is the pleasure of entertaining a largely child audience, but no one complains about earning a bit extra.

Fortunately there is such a glut of demand for recorded readings that there aren't enough stars in Hollywood to scratch the surface of that demand. This leaves lots of work left for everyone else. Generally, there are more opportunities available for those who have some experience or training in acting.

There are all kinds of acting, of course. This would include the salesman reading a script into a telephone the requisite eighty times per day, day in and day out. In many ways this is the ultimate performance, because the audience response is a sale made. Anyone with the skills to be a telemarketer might do well to explore voice opportunities as an extra income source, and anyone trying to make a living as a telemarketer might need the money.

Struggling bill-collectors, fund-raisers, and customer-service employees should also take note of this opportunity. Those in these lines of work automatically cultivate a sense for when they are communicating in the most effective manner possible. Eventually, their most perfect phone persona is typically something a bit different from who they are most of the time, not unlike a character in an audio book.

A deep, pleasant voice without any obvious indication of ethnicity or region probably brings the most opportunities, given the large portion of audio work that is simply the narration of written words. Far from acting out a character, those reading to record this sort of narration are almost trying to be completely anonymous. The text being read is the only "character" to be present, as though it were reading itself.

There are opportunities for speakers with charisma, and someone might be be looking for one's own style at any time. There is room for people who don't sound like the readers of television news. Moreover, an expanding segment of customers require narration in more than one language, so those who speak Spanish or other languages might find work that seeks such expertise.

There are those who manage to make their living entirely through voice-work. This requires more than the sort of voice and talent the market demands. It also requires the ability to see an opportunity, to plan, to network, and to market oneself. Those who make a living through audio work treat it like a small business in which they are not just the performer, but also officer manager and floor manager. But when all is said and done, this can be an unexpected source of income.




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