Here’s your first assignment – due on Wednesday, January 25, 2012…
Your first graded assignment is a listening exercise. Listening to other talent is an essential part of learning. Listen to commercial demos. They are readily available online. Use one of the resources listed here or find other places to listen to demos – for example – do a search for Talent Agent and you will find demos on most Talent Agent websites these days. Listen to both genders.
www.voicebank.net (Voice Over Talent Agency – then select Union or Non-Union)
Listen for several things and answer these questions for at least 5 demos.
- Tell me the name and gender of the “talent”
- The overall technical quality of the demo. Is it good, great, or not so good? Does the demo sound “real?” Like the samples on the demo have actually been produced for a paying client?
- The kind of voice on the demo – young, old, deep, rich, quirky
- What is the pitch of the voice – high, medium, low
- The acting ability and range – does the voice artist sound like they can act or are they simply reading the words and is there variety in the samples?
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