You want to know where to find voiceover auditions, yes?\u00a0 From whatever small town you are in?\u00a0 In Portland, OR, and other smaller cities, my voice over students don\u2019t have the benefit of a live casting community.\u00a0 My newest voiceover students don\u2019t even know what that means.\u00a0 If you are brand new to the voiceover audition business and you\u2019re wondering how you will fit in to the industry, assuming you have completed your training, read on.\u00a0 This is beginner level stuff only.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with the basics.\u00a0 If you\u2019re in a small city where there is no such thing as a casting director or a talent agent, you\u2019re not as hard up as you think.\u00a0 You can still get voiceover auditions right from your own home.\u00a0 Recording your auditions is a separate beast altogether, and I will write about that another time with the help of an engineer or two.\u00a0 Basically though, minimal recording software, an affordable mic, some thick curtains or a small closet will be a modest start to setting up your audition-from-home space.\u00a0 Let\u2019s assume you have that set up for now.\u00a0 Now what?\u00a0 These days there are a few pay-to-play sites that make it very easy for the tinytown voice actor like yourself \u00a0to find opportunities.\u00a0 Hey, I said tiny town, not tiny voice.\u00a0 You have a big, wonderful, unique voice, like no other, and it should be heard!\u00a0 These sites have a reputation, well multiple reputations, for being\u2026..i don\u2019t even know actually.\u00a0 People just have a lot to complain about don\u2019t they?\u00a0 But don\u2019t criticize the medium, just the method.\u00a0 Some of you need this medium, you don\u2019t really have many alternatives.\u00a0 So check them out.\u00a0 Perhaps the people complaining about them just don\u2019t book any auditions.\u00a0 Eh?\u00a0 The first of these sites is Voices.com<\/a> and the other is voice123.com<\/a>. \u00a0These sites will be invaluable to you if you want to wake up to an inbox of emails listing auditions every morning.\u00a0 You should check them both out and see which personality suits you best.\u00a0 There are subtle differences to each and you will only discover which is best by playing around on them for a bit.\u00a0 For those of you who have decided to dedicate 10 hour days to searching for auditions from your new home studio, go ahead and maximize your chances and register for both.\u00a0 There are some strategies you might want to discover and develop to maximize your opportunities for booking voiceover auditions here, such as knowing when and how fast to submit your auditions before the casting roll becomes so full of takes that there\u2019s no way they\u2019re going to hear your excellent take# 147.\u00a0 The other important thing to remember is that this is a SUBJECTIVE business.\u00a0 I know a top notch voice actor from NYC that didn\u2019t book anything for a whole year.\u00a0 His first job when he did book?\u00a0 A National Network voiceover campaign that ran for two years.\u00a0 Voiceover Gold.\u00a0 Have faith in yourself.<\/p>\n I promised \u201cmore\u201d in my title.\u00a0 Uh.\u00a0 Okay, you already know about the pay-to-play sites?\u00a0 Get creative then.\u00a0 Go to your local Craigslist<\/a> \u00a0page and search under gigs\/creative\/tv production\/etc.\u00a0 Call all the production companies and studios in your area and ask if they accept demos.\u00a0 Call the big companies in your area and ask who might be responsible for their in-house training videos and other such corporate narration info.\u00a0 Go to Voicebank.net<\/a> and contact every agency listed to see if they accept demos and are accepting new talent for representation at that time.\u00a0 Well, maybe not EVERY agency.\u00a0 You might want to skip all the NY\/LA ones until you build your resume.\u00a0 You may be fabulous already, but these huge cities are full of fabulous voice actors that are there in the flesh.\u00a0 You can\u2019t compete with that.\u00a0 Unless you have one of those Star Trek transporter things.\u00a0 Oh wait, if you have one of those, I hope you\u2019re doing something way more interesting with it than hopping from one audition to the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You want to know where to find voiceover auditions, yes?\u00a0 From whatever small town you are in?\u00a0 In Portland, OR, and other smaller cities, my voice over students don\u2019t have the benefit of a live 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