Level 1 Telecourse

Performance Fundamentals of Voice Acting
8 weeks - Introductory Course

$597 pre-paid full tuition

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Prerequisites:

• You must have a copy of the current edition “The Art of Voice Acting.” Weekly assignments include reading sections of this book.
• To receive the greatest benefit from this telecourse, you must be able to record high-quality audio on your computer and deliver MP3 files. This means that you have at least a basic home studio set up with basic knowledge of how to operate the equipment and software.
• If you do not have the ability to record on your computer, you may attend this class, however, we will not be able to provide you with any performance coaching during the course. Performance coaching is only available for students who submit weekly recorded audio tracks.
   

The Course:

Each session of this 8-week telecourse is about an hour and a half in length, held once a week on the phone. This course is designed to give you a solid foundation in the basics of voice acting and performing techniques that you can use in a wide variety of daily situations — including performing for film, television, stage, and voiceover. As a Telecourse student, you’ll have access to PDF files of scripts, supplements, and other resources.

You’ll instantly become a member of our VoiceActing Academy which will give you the opportunity to easily download class materials and the recording of each week’s call. You won’t get this with any other voiceover tele-seminar.

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Here are just some of the things you’ll learn in our Level 1 Telecourse:

• The basics—what makes voiceover different from all other types of performing.
• Critical tools for changing the way you think about what you do.
• Acting techniques used by professional voice-actors.
• Tricks-of-the-trade and shortcuts to help you get quickly to the performance you want. Most of these you won’t find anywhere else.
• How to quickly create a character and find the right voice.
• Techniques for working with single-voice copy.
• Techniques for working with dialog and multiple-voice copy.
• How to work with complex industrial/corporate scripts.
• When to have your demo produced.
• How to prepare for your demo.
• What to include and NOT include on your demo.
• How to market yourself as a voice-actor.
• What you need to do to be successful in the business of voice-over.
• The critical components of your home studio.
   

PLUS . . . you’ll have the opportunity to participate in the weekly calls in several ways:

• Workshop notes, scripts, exercises, and audio examples will be available for you to download for each class.
• You can submit your questions to your class Yahoo Group, which we will answer on the group posts and during the weekly tele-conferences.
• You can upload an MP3 file of your performance of one of the weekly scripts. We’ll select and critique one or more each week.
• You can send us your demo and marketing materials. During the marketing tele-class, we’ll talk about how to improve on your marketing message.
   

You’ll learn things you won’t find in any other voiceover class!

We promise that you will learn a lot from every tele-class during this 8-week course, and as a telecourse subscriber, you’ll never need to miss a class.

Since our VoiceActing Academy telecourse has students from all around the world, we’ve scheduled each weekly call for a time we believe to be convenient for as many people as possible. But we also know that sometimes life gets in the way of what we want to do. Traffic problems, previously scheduled activities, and life’s little emergencies might prevent you from being on one or more calls.

If you can’t be on a call . . . don’t worry!

Each weekly call is recorded and is available for downloading from your VAA member page. And if that isn’t enough . . . As a graduate of our VAA telecourse, you’ll be considered an Art of Voice Acting Workshop Graduate, which will entitle you to our “serious discount” graduate tuition for our in-house produced Weekend Workshops. (Note: Tuition for sponsored guest workshops is usually already at a deep discount, so we can only offer our “AOVA graduate serious discount” for workshops that we produce and present ourselves.)

There are lots of voiceover classes out there . . . But many of them don’t teach you what you really need to know. Some will teach you how to “read” a script and then encourage you to spend more money to produce a demo before you're ready. The better workshops teach you the fundamentals of voiceover work and the acting skills you will need in order to compete in today’s voiceover talent market. When you register for the VoiceActing Academy Telecourse, you’ll get up-to-date information on how the voiceover business works, and you’ll learn acting skills that will instantly raise you above 77% of the voiceover talent out there!

The VoiceActing Academy Telecourse is not intended to replace our live 8-week or weekend Performance Workshops, prepare you for a demo, or qualify you to immediately begin marketing yourself as a voiceover talent. However, if you’re on a tight budget and you want to learn how to get started in the right direction, with the right information, from the very beginning . . . you’ll want to consider joining the next Art of Voice Acting Tele-course. And you’ll never need to leave home!

I don’t need to know more . . . just sign me up for the next
VoiceActing Academy 8-week Level 1 Telecourse