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    How To Take Advantage of Technology as an Actor & Voiceover
    How To Take Advantage of Technology as an Actor & Voiceover
    How To Take Advantage of Technology as an Actor & Voiceover
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    How To Take Advantage of Technology as an Actor & Voiceover

    By Kate McClanaghan

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    Is it possible and acceptable to deliver a professional audition from your iPad or iPhone? YES! If you know the industry standards detailed in How To Take Advantage of Technology as an Actor & Voiceover. Discover trade secrets to secure voice acting jobs through the use of today’s most common and widely-used technology.

    Successful business owners will tell you that it generally takes three to five years to establish any small business. The same is true for the voiceover and acting business provided you utilize the tools necessary to running your voiceover and acting career.

    This dynamic industry is dependent on multiple media, promotions, communications, and the technologies that drive them. In order for art to meet commerce, you need to know How To Take Advantage of Technology as an Actor & Voiceover to establish and further your career as a professional talent. Learn the essentials required to offer the greatest opportunities in promoting yourself and maintaining your acting and voice acting career regardless of location or experience level to land voice overs and on-camera jobs.

    Discover what no voice acting classes will teach you from the author of The SOUND ADVICE Encyclopedia of Voice-over & the Business of Being a Working Talent and expert in the voice acting and entertainment field to allow you the best chance to secure voice acting jobs as well as on-camera work.

    You’ll learn:
    - How to turn promotional postcards into interactive links to lead directly to your web site
    - What format headshots need to be in to view them online
    - Online casting sources for both on-camera acting jobs and voice acting jobs from across the country
    - Which web sites offer the most work as a actor and/or voice over
    - How to land voice acting jobs from producers in regions on the opposite side of the country with the use of a simple FREE online tool
    - How to practice recording your auditions from home with out destroying your professional reputation
    - Plus much more!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    ISBN9781483512785
    How To Take Advantage of Technology as an Actor & Voiceover

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      How To Take Advantage of Technology as an Actor & Voiceover - Kate McClanaghan

      Advice

      Chapter 1

      Going The Distance

      Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

      —Samuel Johnson

      At Sound Advice we’re often asked, What’s it take to go the distance in this business?

      There’s no single answer. There are four: pursue, persist, prepare, and promote. These four components are absolutely vital to succeed at ANYTHING, let alone an acting or voice-over career. It’s your responsibility to ensure these elements are continually in play as they are required of you no matter how far along you may be—regardless of whether you are just beginning, or if you have been established and are aiming to raise your game to the next level. They are a constant.

      Whatever you accomplish in this business, you’ll succeed only if you pursue it. Nothing will come to you, no matter how much talent you may have. Even with the benefit of nepotism, it’s ultimately up to you to run your career. This is your business and no one else’s. Own it. Opportunities are what you make of them.

      You have to set your sights on your immediate goals, and then persist at them, and often beyond what you might first consider a comfortable margin. Additionally, developing and then maintaining your skills requires persistent dedication. This element only increases with success, not the other way around—contrary to what many novices may think.

      So, if you find you’re easily frustrated or simply give up after a few months of training or even after only a year or two of promotion, then you may never honestly know for yourself what you could have created without real, long-term persistence.

      Preparation means continually developing your abilities, and along with ongoing promotion, this requires patience. Allow yourself to continue to develop your skills. Agility is not naturally intuitive and talent can atrophy with lack of use. It takes attention. Otherwise your skills won’t be sharp when called upon at a moment’s notice, and they will be tested. Without persistence you will serve only to undermine your own confidence. Your confidence is directly related to your integrity as an artist. Regardless of your position, no matter how affluent you may be, no one can afford to lose his or her integrity. Even natural talent will degrade and weaken if not continually honed.

      To add to this, your success is contingent on continual and repeated promotion far more than anyone in this business has previously ever lead you to believe. Consider it your staple from this point forward. It’s up to you to drive attention to yourself through your very best promotional efforts. And with that thought in mind, as a rule: never set your sights on securing just one audition, or one big break, or "wait until the time is just right." If so, you will secure only ONE audition, ONE break, and the time will never arrive because you never took the time to properly promote yourself. The time is right when you decide it is, so make that NOW. Make a decision as to what you want in your life and work toward those goals. In doing so you’ll accomplish far more than you ever imagined possible.

      Every audition is a form of promotion, yet so many artists repel the idea of promotion that this could easily account for

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