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There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Voice-Overs » (ENLARGED)

Book cover image of There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Voice-Overs by Elaine A. Clark

Authors: Elaine A. Clark
ISBN-13: 9780823077021, ISBN-10: 0823077020
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: ENLARGED

Author Biography: Elaine A. Clark

Elaine A. Clark is a voice and on-camera actor who has been seen and heard in hundreds of commercials, video games, websites, talking toys and other voiced products, corporate industrials, and voice mail systems. In 1986 she founded Voice One, one of the oldest voice-over and acting schools of its kind. While the primary focus is on commercial, character, and corporate voice-overs, Ms. Clark and her staff of working professionals also teach stage, film, commercial, and corporate on-camera acting. There is a series of voice-over training videos, CDs and cassette tapes for sale through the company website. To find out more, visit www.VoiceOneonline.com.

Book Synopsis

"A brilliant, dazzling, daring novel. Sigrid Nunez has taken the American dream and stood it on its head."—The Boston Globe

	Acknowledgments	9
	Introduction	11
Chapter 1	Getting Started	15
Chapter 2	Voice-Over Aerobics	22
Chapter 3	Copy Basics	31
Chapter 4	Hiding "the Sell"	42
Chapter 5	Making it M.I.N.E.	51
Chapter 6	Putting Melody in Your Voice	58
Chapter 7	Copywriter's Intention	63
Chapter 8	Layering Techniques	67
Chapter 9	Believing What You Say	72
Chapter 10	Tags, Donuts, And Promos	75
Chapter 11	Announcer	82
Chapter 12	Spokesperson	92
Chapter 13	Real-Person Spots	101
Chapter 14	Characters	111
Chapter 15	Multiples	122
Chapter 16	Industrial Narrations	135
Chapter 17	Multimedia and Audio Books	148
Chapter 18	The Demo	163
Chapter 19	Getting an Agent	181
Chapter 20	Marketing Your Talent	202
Chapter 21	Staying on Top of the Business	213
Chapter 22	Epilogue: the Pep Talk	222
	Glossary	224
	Index	229