Voice over work

cruais

Im looking to get into voiceover work. Has anyone any experience in this field?

At present I am currently in a job where i have to do a lot of public speaking. Ive had numerous people say to me that they enjoyed listening to me etc and recently had a retired employee from RTE say that i should get into radio as apparently i have a nice tone and my diction is great.

I sound like I am blowing my own trumpet there... I really dont mean to sound like that but just wanted to give an example as to why I want to do voiceover work.

Thanks in advance

Atlantic Dawn

There's a couple of voice over agencies that have multiple VO artists on their books with samples of their work, I'd say that would be the best way to go.

http://voicetalentireland.ie
http://www.voicebank.ie/
http://www.volcanic.ie/

ella23

Hiya,

There is a couple of ways to get in to VO work. But the first thing you need is to make up a demo. Do you know any producers or anything that can do that for you?

If not what i would suggest is that you pop down to one of your local radio stations. What part of the country are you living in? If it is Dublin, one of the smaller stations. Ask to speak to the production manager. That is the person that makes the ads for the station. Normally they have a certain budget for ads which is very limited. If you ask them could you try out some VO work unpaid with them so you could make up a showreel they just might help you but it depends on the station in question. It would be a great way for you to get comfortable with a mic too. I would not suggest doing it though this side of christmas, they will be very very busy and won't have time to entertain the idea. They are at their quietest in January.

If from this you can see potential in yourself and the producer does, i would then advise you to send out that showreel to all the station in the country. Give them a fee. It is usually between 20 and thirty five euro for the local and regional stations and a good bit more for the nationals. The national station will not take you on without experience though, so that would be further down the line. Once you have a name out for yourself then, this would be the time to start approaching the agencies like voiceband etc and it would also be a good time to invest in a home studio.

Best of luck with it.

cruais

ella23 wrote: »

Hiya,

There is a couple of ways to get in to VO work. But the first thing you need is to make up a demo. Do you know any producers or anything that can do that for you?

If not what i would suggest is that you pop down to one of your local radio stations. What part of the country are you living in? If it is Dublin, one of the smaller stations. Ask to speak to the production manager. That is the person that makes the ads for the station. Normally they have a certain budget for ads which is very limited. If you ask them could you try out some VO work unpaid with them so you could make up a showreel they just might help you but it depends on the station in question. It would be a great way for you to get comfortable with a mic too. I would not suggest doing it though this side of christmas, they will be very very busy and won't have time to entertain the idea. They are at their quietest in January.

If from this you can see potential in yourself and the producer does, i would then advise you to send out that showreel to all the station in the country. Give them a fee. It is usually between 20 and thirty five euro for the local and regional stations and a good bit more for the nationals. The national station will not take you on without experience though, so that would be further down the line. Once you have a name out for yourself then, this would be the time to start approaching the agencies like voiceband etc and it would also be a good time to invest in a home studio.

Best of luck with it.

Thanks a million for such a detailed post! Sorry I am just replying to you now as didn't check my notifications!

I feel from reading that post im not so much ''stabbing in the dark'' anymore.

Thanks again.

ella23

No bother at all at all!

threein99

cruais wrote: »

Im looking to get into voiceover work. Has anyone any experience in this field?

At present I am currently in a job where i have to do a lot of public speaking. Ive had numerous people say to me that they enjoyed listening to me etc and recently had a retired employee from RTE say that i should get into radio as apparently i have a nice tone and my diction is great.

I sound like I am blowing my own trumpet there... I really dont mean to sound like that but just wanted to give an example as to why I want to do voiceover work.

Thanks in advance

Are you Noel McGrath >