{"id":88,"date":"2013-06-20T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T04:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2013-07-24T21:43:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:43:42","slug":"your-voiceover-demo-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/your-voiceover-demo-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Voiceover Demo redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

The voiceover demo is a big deal.\u00a0 Financially and as a representation of all that you offer to a potential buyer.\u00a0 It can either open or shut the door for you immediately.\u00a0 It needs to be PHENOMENAL.\u00a0 This means, if you are not reading your spots phenomenal before you ever step in the booth the record your demo, you\u2019re not ready to make a demo.\u00a0 I discuss the dangers of all this in this voice over demo blog from a year or two ago called <\/span><\/span><\/span>How to Make a Great Voiceover Demo<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Let it be your guide, your inspiration, and your friendly warning.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

With that said, there\u2019s some great talent out there, and perhaps you are one of them and you\u2019re ready to take that plunge.\u00a0 Most importantly is having the right unbiased yet experienced perspective on whether you are ready or not.\u00a0 I feel so strongly about this that I am offering you a <\/span><\/span><\/span>free voiceover consult<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> on whether you are demo-ready or not.\u00a0 With that said, if you have had no voiceover training at all, or no acting experience, you are not ready regardless.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A great actor is leaps and bounds ahead of the pack because voiceover is so acting based.\u00a0 If you are looking to be the \u201cLet\u2019s get ready to ruuuuumble\u2026\u2026.!\u201d guy, you might want to consider \u2013 saying it in your living room.\u00a0 I think jobs like that are rare, and I would recommend looking up bios of the people that do jobs like that.\u00a0 Chances are they got that job because of the job before that.\u00a0 Not a lot of casting for that work\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One of my new favorite websites, besides mine, that offers sound advice on the demo, for those of you who are considering it is right here at <\/span><\/span><\/span>I want to be a voice actor.com.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 I really appreciate this person\u2019s organization and insight.\u00a0 So once again, before you make that demo, there\u2019s a lot of other stuff that comes first.\u00a0 Patience is a virtue.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The voiceover demo is a big deal.\u00a0 Financially and as a representation of all that you offer to a potential buyer.\u00a0 It can either open or shut the door for you immediately.\u00a0 It needs to be PHENOMENAL.\u00a0 This means, if you are not reading your spots phenomenal before you ever step in the booth the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-over-gurus-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}