Voice Over Coaching: What Does It Entail?
As opposed to singing lessons, voice over coaching involves finding your voice, perfecting it, and utilizing it in a way that stands out and is fit for the voice over industry. Of course, there are plenty of voice over coaches who work with aspiring singers, though a voice over coach most often works on speech and communication with voice talent. Regardless of what’s covered within classes, voice coaching is often necessary for those who’d like a career in voice overs.
If you are the aforementioned aspiring voice talent, The Voice Shop is one of the premier voice over schools in New York City. Our classes can help you start your path to landing a gig in the entertainment industry. While this always involves hard work, skill, proper technique and more, starting out with voice over coaching will surely be beneficial. Whether you’re just getting started in voice acting or would like to brush up on your technique, voice over coaching can help. Plus, the Voice Shop offers a range of voice over courses for every level. Now, take a closer look at voice over coaching and how a voice acting coach can help you start your path to a working voice over talent.
What’s Involved in Voice Over Coaching?
Within singing, voice coaching essentially applies to the output of an individual's voice. That is: execution, vocal arrangements, phrasing, pitch, volume, etc. Within the voice over industry, voice coaching is quite similar, yet more specific techniques like pauses, emphases, and articulation are also covered. Moreover, coaching may focus on a certain discipline within voice over, such as commercial VO or narration.
Given that most voice over coaches are experienced professionals, they can give you much-needed insight to the industry. This could include where your voice would be the best fit, how to approach agencies, what to include on your demo, and more. Plus, at the Voice Shop, our coaches can guide you in building your own recording studio and even help you develop the skills to market your own brand through voice over. In short, working with a voice acting coach could present numerous advantages to your and your path to starting a career in voice over.
Options for Voice Over Coaching
While your options will depend on where you receive coaching from, you can find voice over coaching for a range of specific topics and disciplines. As we alluded to above, you can focus on a particular subject like narration or animation voice over, among many others. However, topics don't have to be so specific. If you're just getting started in voice over, you can coaching and lessons for establishing your voice, perfecting certain techniques, and even in creating your own voice over demo. Here at the Voice Shop, we offer all of this and more. In short, we offer a range of voice over classes, all led by industry professionals. We've provided some of our voice over classes below to help you get an idea of your options:
Fundamentals of Voice Over: As part of our Technique classes, Fundamentals of Voice Over covers an overview of the industry, finding your authentic voice, and touches upon a range of voice over techniques.
Private Lessons: Of course, private voice over lessons can cover whatever topic you choose. Here, you can connect with our voice over coaches via Skype for guidance, critiques, and anything else you'd like to learn about voice over.
Workshops (Webinars): From preparing for an audition to building a home studio and recording your demo, our webinar workshops are a great follow up to the classes. These topics are key in finding work and maintaining a career as a voice over talent.
How Voice Over Coaching Benefits You
Regardless of your current skill set, voice over coaching really offers something for everybody. It’s beneficial in finding your voice, perfecting your technique, and landing jobs as a voice talent. Take a look at the list of benefits below for more:
Improve your delivery, speaking with color and emotion.
Learn techniques such as increasing volume without shouting.
Perfect the speed of your speaking
A coach will serve as an extra set of ears, observing your speech and vocal range.
A coach will point out strengths and help you improve other areas.
They’ll also help you create the perfect demo.
Overall, voice over coaching can help in nearly every aspect of voice overs. No matter where you need improvement, the right coach will help you find the right voice, apply it to a certain industry, and help you land gigs. In addition to taking classes with our coaches, you can find plenty of helpful information on the pages below:
Benefit from Coaching with the Voice Shop
No matter your skill set, anyone can take advantage of voice over coaching. Experienced professionals can assist you in every discipline, from finding your voice to setting up your very own studio. More importantly, voice coaching will help you develop the skills necessary in making it as a voice talent and marketing yourself for such.
If you’re interested in benefitting from our voice over coaching, be sure to contact the Voice Shop, the best voice over school in New York City today. You can give us a call at 212.213.9487 to learn more and sign up.
