In voice-over you need to be sharp. It’s a fast moving industry, studio fees are expensive, everyone has a deadline and nobody wants to waste time. The best thing to be is super sharp. This means taking directions well and adjusting right away, not 5 takes later. It’s common to

To really understand voice-over, you have to go back to the very beginning. Here’s a crash course in how it all started. Voice-over is still in its infancy, if you compare it to traditional acting. Acting has been around for over 3,000 years, with the first known actors performing in

A complaint I hear all the time is that the voice-over business is very cliquey. This implies that people in the industry are in some sort of gang having secret meetings on Sunday nights about how to keep at the work for themselves. Of course, none of this is true.

The biggest barrier for people to get into the voice-over business is producing their own demo. Let me tell you why. Recording a voice-over demo – where it’s your commercial, animation, or narration – is like producing a mini album. You start by creating the content, for example: if you’re

I think one of the most important factors to staying with anything that’s difficult is having a love for what you’re doing. The most important factor when staying with something difficult is to have a love of doing it. Before I’d even booked my first voice-over job I had a

Everyone knows you can make serious money in voice-over, but not everyone knows the breakdown on how you get paid. One thing I love about voice-over is that you are paid for your time. You show up to the studio at 9am with your script in hand and step to

In voice-over the moment you put your demo out there – you are considered a lead voice.   You are the lead voice in the commercial representing Honda – you’re the voice of their brand – they’ve spent millions of dollars on the advertising campaign and your voice is the one they