Put your voice, acting, and interpretive ability to work with personalized coaching from one of the industry’s most skilled and experienced coaches.
Becoming a top voice-over artist is difficult. You need to have genuine dedication to the learning process, the willingness to accept constructive criticism, and a good deal of patience. Lifelong reading-aloud habits are difficult to break, and it’s easy to become frustrated in the early stages of learning professional script delivery.
Many other voiceover coaches offer introductory voice over workshops for beginners. This involves an instructor hearing one or two brief readings of short commercial scripts to best determine which is the most expensive program or package offered. There are also corporate voice-over training paths and online programs out there that consist of a basic one to two-day seminar or workshop followed immediately by the rapid production of a demo reel.
Other programs simply provide a set number of lessons followed automatically by the production of a demo. However, I have not found these crowded workshops and cookie-cutter programs to be valuable for aspiring vocal talent at the very beginning of their careers.
Voice-over seminars and masterclasses are worthwhile investments later on. However, weekend seminars generally leave you with only a few important and memorable pointers. They should serve as supplementary tools to make better what you already do well. For a beginner, however, a weekend-long program isn’t the right choice as a primary source of instruction on core technique building and breath control.
Do you think that you can have a successful voice-over career without doing thorough research on the modern casting marketplace? Do you think you can compete against seasoned media professionals if you haven’t perfected your pace, script timing, breathing mechanics, vocal inflection, or reading comprehension? And do you honestly think you can master all of this on your own?
Performing voice overs is a great way to make a stable living. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you can learn this industry quickly. It is a developmental process that is unique to each individual artist. There are absolutely no shortcuts in this business.
John Burr is an industry professional with more than 35 years of working in every aspect of the industry. His many years of working as a voiceover talent, editor, and audio and video producer have given him an in-depth understanding of every stage of the production process.
He has toured nationally and internationally, performed in many professional theater plays, and recorded over 100 albums. He has mentored many students who have gone on to narrate for prominent channels and companies, and his corporate clients include 5 Fortune 500 companies.
You will learn the dynamics of language and script interpretation, improve your microphone techniques and gain confidence in your abilities with auditions and projects. Discover how to control the parameters of pace, pitch, pause, emotion, and volume.
Voice-over skills are only half the battle. Marketing yourself is just as important. We teach you how to network, how the industry works and how to create and coordinate marketing materials.
You will walk away with a unique identity for your brand, decide realistic rates, create demos for your portfolio and budget a home studio for work.
We produce demos representative of the versatility of each person. Scripts are chosen and written to suit the artist’s capabilities. Our studio comes with carefully curated materials drawn from over 20 music libraries and 15 sound effects libraries to enrich production value.
For students wishing to do on-camera projects, we have the facilities to produce high-quality video demos from script to finished product.
