Voice for Hire: Launch and Maintain a Lucrative Career in Voice-Overs by Randy Thomas, Peter Rofe', Don LaFontaine (Foreword by)
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(Paperback - First Edition)
- Pub. Date: October 2008
- 224pp
- Sales Rank: 48,111
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2008
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 224pp
- Sales Rank: 48,111
- ISBN-13: 9780823099467
- ISBN: 0823099466
- Edition Description: First Edition
Synopsis
The most comprehensive voice-over guidebook ever!
This voice is for hire. In fact, all actors’ voices are for hire–or should be. Voice-overs offer a great opportunity for actors to get extra work, even full-time work. Author Randy Thomas is America’s most recognizable female voice announcer‐she even announces the national television broadcast of the Academy Awards! Author Peter Rofé is New York City’s top voice-over coach–he teaches actors to sell their voices for every possible voice-over purpose. Together they explore all the ins and outs of this exciting and lucrative field: auditioning, making demos, training, marketing, script interpretation, animation, radio, promos, narration, live announcing, and more. Want to get your mouth in the door and keep it inside once it’s there? Sure you do. If your voice is for hire, you need Voice for Hire.
Biography
Randy Thomas was the first woman to announce the Academy Award and the Miss America Pageant. She is the voice of Entertainment Tonight and has more than twenty years of experience as a radio and voice-over personality. Visit her on the web at www.randythomasvo.com . She lives in Fort Myers, Florida.
Peter Rofé, a trained stage actor, has voiced national TV and radio spots, network promos, and live events. Today he operates PDR Voice-Over Coaching, which hosts industry workshops, conducts online seminars, and produces popular demos. Visit him on the web at www.pdrvoicecoaching.com . He lives in New York City.
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A great resource for beginners and veterans alikeby Anonymous
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March 09, 2009: As someone who has been working in the voice over industry for the past few years, this book provides an invaluable source of inspiration and advice on getting your career off the ground and keeping up with the competition. The advice that Peter and Randy give in this book makes it the best book yet written on making your way in the voice over world, and the personal stories from many of the top talents in the industry are an inspiration to working voice over artists.
All told, if you have ever been even the slightest bit curious about pursuing voice overs, this is a must-read.A MUST READ for anyone curious about voice-over!by CarynClark
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October 29, 2008:
Voice for Hire offers insight from two of the most knowledgeable voice-over talent in the biz. It is a MUST READ for anyone who's interested in having the recession-proof career that voice-over offers. Before I was a voice over talent, I worked in "Corporate America." A number of my friends are losing their jobs right now, but as an independent contractor owning my own business, my business is actually growing!! I've recently completed a group of national television commercials for several Hannah Montana products, as well as other toys... and the list goes on.
Caryn Clark... The Hip Chick Voice!
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