Excerpt from How to Break into Voiceover:
Whether or not you have a voiceover agent who will market you to voiceover casting directors and voiceover producers, you should market yourself to everyone involved in voiceover casting and production. The following are some of the top proven methods for marketing your voiceover talents and securing work in voiceover:
Whether or not you have a voiceover agent who will market you to voiceover casting directors and voiceover producers, you should market yourself to everyone involved in voiceover casting and production. The following are some of the top proven methods for marketing your voiceover talents and securing work in voiceover:
* Create a personal website
* Market yourself to casting directors
* Market yourself to producers
* Market yourself to publishers
* Evaluate pay-to-play websites
* Attend voiceover industry events
A personal website should contain your demo
reels, any significant work you've performed, and your contact information, at
the minimum. Marketing yourself to
casting directors is important because voiceover casting directors are hired by
an advertising agency or production company to manage and direct voiceover
auditions. Marketing yourself to
producers won’t be very helpful for commercial voiceover, since most commercial
work is cast through advertising agencies and casting directors, but for most
other categories of voiceover, producers often handle the casting themselves. If you’re an audiobook narrator, market
yourself to audiobook publishers who directly hire audiobook narrators for their
projects. You can also evaluate
pay-to-play websites where you pay a monthly fee to audition for voiceover
jobs. These sites will give you good
practice in auditioning, but the non-union rates are typically quite low and
much of the time your auditions may not even be heard due to the high volume of
amateur submissions. And finally, attend
voiceover industry events that allow you to network with voiceover veterans,
producers, casting directors, agents and many others involved in the voiceover
profession, all of whom can help you get your foot in the door for future voiceover
work.
For a complete breakdown of the best ways to market yourself for voiceover jobs, read How to Break into Voiceover by Christopher Prince.
For a complete breakdown of the best ways to market yourself for voiceover jobs, read How to Break into Voiceover by Christopher Prince.
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