There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: A Complete Insider's Guide to Earning Income and Building a Career in Voice-Overs

If you’ve ever been interested in voice-over acting, you need this book!. Along with sample commercials and script copy, the author gives advice on vocal exercises, self-promotion, and business matters. This outstanding handbook explains how to launch a career and ?nd work. Voices are increasingly in demand for commercials, cartoon characters, announcements, and other spots. This expanded edition features new tips on making a demo CD, vocal modulation and breath techniques, advanced copy-reading strategies, and a section on how copywriters see the job of the voice artists for whom they write. Chapters include: getting started, voice-over aerobics, copy basics, melody and tempo, layering techniques, believing what you say, commercial and stylized characters, corporate narration, a

She is the owner of Voice One in San Francisco, a voice-over, acting, and improv training academy. Clark is also a freelance director, producer casting director, and audio engineer. . Elaine A. Clark has performed, for more than twenty-five years, in commercials (Clorox, Macy's, TiVo, , Panera Bread), video games (Aliens, Dark Wizard, Spawn, Mario's Time Machine, D2), corporate narration

“In today's competitive voice-over market, it's all about specifics. From acting to analyzing copy to agents and marketing, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is generously outlines and details the business of voice-over.” (Bob Bergen, Emmy Award-and Annie Award-nominated voice actor and Porky Pig on Cartoon Network's The Looney Tunes Show)

An excellent comprehensive resource for voice-over beginners If you've ever read anything about working professionally in voice-over, then a lot of the information in Clark's book will be a review for you, but that isn't a bad thing - fundamentals are always important to remember, no matter the topic, and the way Clark breaks down each aspect of the field makes it simple to learn even if you're just skimming through instead of properly reading it.Where this. An Industry Standard Receives a Third Edition If you are considering a Voice Over career or are looking for ways to hone an existing one, Elaine Clark's book is a standard of this industry. I have read the Second Edition and this updated version is no different in it being extremely dense with content. You will need multiple sittings to just to begin to absorb all of the information that she provides. The book has some very important insights. Perfect reference manual and go to guide for any VO work! Amazon Customer I can see why it's been called a must have!It's packed full of information and valuable knowledge for VoiceOver work.I've read many other books, but this is the one most everyone either copies from or tries to be like.Having had multiple editions and updates this is not (as far as I have found) outdated!It's indeed very contemporary and poignant.