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This VOICE OVER TODAY Issue Includes:
1.) Upcoming ‘Voice Over Training’ Events
2.) Have Better Reads
3.) Partner Programs
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VOICE OVER TODAY – July 5, 2005
Helping Voice-Talent Build Careers.
Published
by EDGE STUDIO
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1.) UPCOMING ‘VOICE OVER TRAINING’ EVENTS
$25 ACT-UP! WORKSHOPS
To increase your ability,
each month has a different focus.
June’s focus is AUDIOBOOKS
July’s focus is COMMERCIAL DOUBLES
• TELE-CLASS
(taught by David Goldberg)
third Wednesday of each month (June 15) 7pm-9pm EST
call us for a “dial in” code and payment
• NY STUDIO
(taught by Paul Liberti)
first Monday of each month (CLASS DELAYED TO JULY 11, DUE TO THE HOLIDAY
ON JULY 4) 7pm-9pm
just show up! Pay at the door!
$25 or $200 for a 10-pack
TELE-TRAINING
call 888-321-edge to receive a “dial in” code
• Do V.O. From
Home Seminar: $79 - June 13, 6pm-8pm EST
• ACT-UP! Workshop: AUDIOBOOKS: $25 or $200 for a 10-pack - June
15, 7pm-9pm EST
• Intensive Technique Evaluation Workshop: July 15, 3pm-7pm EST
• Promo Workshop: $79 - July 18, 6pm-8pm EST
• ACT-UP! Workshop: COMMERCIAL DOUBLES: $25 or $200 for a 10-pack
– July 20, 7pm-9pm EST
• Telephony Workshop: $79 - July 25, 6pm-8pm EST
• Marketing ‘Get Me Work Now!’ Seminar: $79 - August
1, 5pm-7pm EST
• Do V.O. From Home Seminar: $79 - August 31, 8pm-10pm EST
NEW YORK STUDIO
call 212-868-edge to participate
• Character
& Animation Workshop: $99 - June 20, 6pm-10pm
• Intensive Technique Evaluation Workshop: $99 - June 23, 9am-1pm
• Advanced Character & Animation Workshop: $99 - June 27, 6pm-10pm
SPECIAL - BOTH CHARACTER WORKSHOPS FOR $179
• Marketing "Get Me Work Now!" Seminar: $79 - June 29,
7pm-9pm
• Promo Workshop: $79 - July 6, 7pm-9pm
• ACT-UP! Workshop: COMMERCIAL DOUBLES: $25 or $200 for a 10-pack
– July 11, 7pm-9pm EST
• Comprehensive 3-Day Break-In Event: $999 - August 12, 13, 14
CONNECTICUT STUDIO
call 203-374-edge to participate
• Intensive-Technique Evaluation Workshop: $99 - August 23, 3pm-7pm
WASHINGTON DC STUDIO
call 202-398-edge to participate
• Intensive-Technique
Evaluation Workshop: $159 - June 20, 12noon-4pm
• Intensive-Technique Evaluation Workshop: $159 - June 20, 6pm-10pm
• Marketing "Get Me Work Now!" Seminar: $119 - June 21,
9am-11am
• Do Voice Over From Home Seminar: $119 - June 21, 11:30am-1:30pm
• Promo Workshop: $119 - June 21, 2:30pm-4:30pm
• Telephony Workshop: $119 - June 21, 5pm-7pm
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2.) HAVE BETTER READS
Here’s a great way to make your read better.
Sometimes it’s the little things... “Little” words, or at least little to unaware voice over artists, often are important and respectfully deserve word-value (emphasis).
These words are “reference” words - often pronouns. They are words that appear insignificant, yet refer to something that is very significant. By identifying and valuing these words, your reads will sound better – resulting in happier clients.
For example:
1.) In the following commercial text, the word “this” refers to the car, and therefore requires emphasis. Plus if this is a television commercial, there’s a good chance that the car is shown at that moment. In which case, word-value will help your read and the visual “match” each other.
“Pontiac Grand Am. Its performance, excitement, and commitment to quality make this the Sport Sedan of a lifetime. Pontiac. We build excitement!”
2.) Value the word “they” in this commercial:
“Take a Sentimental Journey with the Band of Renown as they play the “Music of your life.”
3.) Value “their” and “your” in this medical Flash presentation:
Join the thousands of men who have boosted their sexual performance with Potennix. Put the fire back into your lovemaking with Potennix.
4.) Value the word “it” and “our” in this corporate industrial:
“The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream,” Orson Welles said. This motto has kept our company the number one mortgage holder in America for seven years.
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3.) PARTNER PROGRAMS
If your current voice
over instructor/school does not offer training resources that Edge Studio
does,
feel welcome to use our Partner Programs.
The objective is to enhance your career and resume, as Edge Studio is one of the most trusted resources in the voice over industry.
NOTES: If you tell your current instructor/school about Edge Studio’s Partner Programs, and they call us for more information, you receive an additional 10% off Partner Programs. Partner Programs are only offered if you are signed up with or are currently training with another instructor/school, OR have completed another instructor/school’s program within the last 30 days.
PARTNER PROGRAM PACKAGES - via TELE-TRAINING and IN-STUDIO
Starter Partner Program
Appropriate if your current instructor/school does not offer initial evaluations
(essential to determine your vocal strengths/weaknesses, and to establish
your most marketable niches which help set a marketable path (i.e.: documentary,
audiobook, character, commercial, training, etc.). Includes comprehensive,
organized practice tools.
• Intensive Technique Voice-Evaluation Workshop
• Industry GuideBook
• Practice Scripts
$109 (non Partner Program cost = $138)
Starter & Ender Partner Program
In addition to benefits of the Starter Program, this Program teaches you
how to get work. Plus the ACT! UP Workshops prepare you for actual work
and auditions.
• Intensive Technique Voice-Evaluation Workshop
• Industry GuideBook
• Practice Scripts
• Marketing Seminar
• two ACT! UP Workshops
$229 (non Partner Program cost = $267)
Starter & Ender
PLUS Partner Program
In addition to the Starter & Ender Program, this program helps you
expand your career by offering clients productions from your home-studio.
Plus the additional ACT! UP Workshops are designed to ensure that you
sound as good as your demo.
• Intensive Technique Voice-Evaluation Workshop
• Industry GuideBook
• Practice Scripts
• Marketing Seminar
• Do V.O. From Home Seminar
• four ACT! UP Workshops
$329 (non Partner Program cost = $396)
Ender Partner Program
Appropriate if your current instructor/school does not offer post-demo
training. As any sales-person knows, you must understand your industry
and the best way to get “in the door” to get work. And once
you receive work, you must be prepared, which is why two ACT! UP Workshops
are included.
• Marketing Seminar
• two ACT! UP Workshops
$109 (non Partner Program cost = $129)
Ender PLUS Partner
Program
In addition to the benefits of the Ender Program, this program helps you
expand your career by offering clients productions from your home-studio.
Plus the additional ACT! UP Workshops are designed to ensure that you
sound as good as your demo.
• Marketing Seminar
• Do V.O. From Home Seminar
• four ACT! UP Workshops
$219 (non Partner Program cost = $258)
DEMO PRODUCTION Partner
Program
If your trainer/school does not offer demo production, feel welcome to
use our production team. As you know, creating a competitive demo is more
than simply hitting “record” and reading. It takes thought,
attention, and trained ears. Which is why demos produced here usually
produce results.
• Practice Scripts
• Demo Preparation Session
• Demo Recording Session
• Demo Production/Mixing Session
• Receive master CD and MP3 emailed to you
• one ACT! UP Workshop
$539 (non Partner Program cost = $599)
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