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    How To Break Into Voice-over and Acting for Kids & Young Adults
    How To Break Into Voice-over and Acting for Kids & Young Adults
    How To Break Into Voice-over and Acting for Kids & Young Adults
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    How To Break Into Voice-over and Acting for Kids & Young Adults

    By Kate McClanaghan

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    What do you need to know to break your child or young adult into voice over and acting?
    You need to know how your child can land voice over jobs and acting jobs, as well as talent agents.

    NO talent agent wants to hear what doesn’t work or how difficult all of this is for you. They need to hear solutions from YOU, the parent, and whether they can count on you and your young talent for auditions. Talent agents, like the producers who hire your kid, want to know your child is confident and stable, allowing them to consistently deliver their best performance, whether on an audition or a booking.

    You’ll learn the basics of how to run your child’s career in How To Break Into Voice Over and Acting For Kids & Young Adults and the industry standards expected of every talent hoping to work. You’ll discover trade secrets to secure voice acting jobs and on-camera (film, commercial, and television) acting jobs.

    Successful business owners will tell you that it generally takes three to five years to establish any small business. The same is true for the voiceover and acting business provided you utilize the tools necessary to running your voiceover and acting career.

    This dynamic industry is dependent on multiple media, promotions, communications, and the technologies that drive them. In order for art to meet commerce, you need to know How To Break Into Voice Over and Acting For Kids & Young Adults to establish and further your young actor’s potential career as a professional talent. Learn the essentials required to offer the greatest opportunities in promoting them and maintaining their acting and voice acting career in order to land voice overs and on-camera jobs.

    Discover what no voice acting classes will teach you from the author of The SOUND ADVICE Encyclopedia of Voice-over & the Business of Being a Working Talent and expert in the voice acting and entertainment field to allow you the best chance to secure voice acting jobs as well as on-camera work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    ISBN9781483512792
    How To Break Into Voice-over and Acting for Kids & Young Adults

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      How To Break Into Voice-over and Acting for Kids & Young Adults - Kate McClanaghan

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      Chapter 1

      Going The Distance

      Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

      —Samuel Johnson

      At Sound Advice we’re often asked, What’s it take to go the distance in this business?

      There’s no single answer. There are four: pursue, persist, prepare, and promote. These four components are absolutely vital to succeed at ANYTHING, let alone an acting or voice-over career. It’s your responsibility to ensure these elements are continually in play as they are required of you no matter how far along you may be—regardless of whether you are just beginning, or if you have been established and are aiming to raise your game to the next level. They are a constant.

      Whatever you accomplish in this business, you’ll succeed only if you pursue it. Nothing will come to you, no matter how much talent you may have. Even with the benefit of nepotism, it’s ultimately up to you to run your career. This is your business and no one else’s. Own it. Opportunities are what you make of them.

      You have to set your sights on your immediate goals, and then persist at them, and often beyond what you might first consider a comfortable margin. Additionally, developing and then maintaining your skills requires persistent dedication. This element only increases with success, not the other way around—contrary to what many novices may think.

      So, if you find you’re easily frustrated or simply give up after a few months of training or even after only a year or two of promotion, then you may never honestly know for yourself what you could have created without real, long-term persistence.

      Preparation means continually developing your abilities, and along with ongoing promotion, this requires patience. Allow yourself to continue to develop your skills. Agility is not naturally intuitive and talent can atrophy with lack of use. It takes attention. Otherwise your skills won’t be sharp when called upon at a moment’s notice, and they will be tested. Without persistence you will serve only to undermine your own confidence. Your confidence is directly related to your integrity as an artist. Regardless of your position, no matter how affluent you may be, no one can afford to lose his or her integrity. Even natural talent will degrade and weaken if not continually honed.

      To add to this, your success is contingent on continual and repeated promotion far more than anyone in this business has previously ever lead you to believe. Consider it your staple from this point forward. It’s up to you to drive attention to yourself through your very best promotional efforts. And with that thought in mind, as a rule: never set your sights on securing just one audition, or one big break, or "wait until the time is just right." If so, you will secure only ONE audition, ONE break, and the time will never arrive because you never took the time to properly promote yourself. The time is right when you decide it is, so make that NOW. Make a decision as to what you want in your life and work toward those goals. In doing so you’ll accomplish far more than you ever imagined possible.

      Every audition is a form of promotion, yet so many artists repel the idea of promotion that this could easily account for the scores of talented souls who have fallen into oblivion. If you leave your career alone I promise nothing will happen. It will slip through your fingers.

      No one who has ever scored an Oscar accepted it saying, This was so easy. I don’t know why you guys don’t all have one. It was a piece of cake!

      Nope. Anything worthwhile is accomplished from hard work and lots of it. And a good deal of that work comes from consistent and constant promotion. Consider it as much of your job as the performance itself. This is how we make ourselves known and familiar. Promotion comes with the territory and can’t be ignored if you intend to succeed as a working talent.

      The fact remains that talent who persist at promotion, while honing their performance skills, will make themselves known and valuable. What they may lack performance-wise at the onset of their careers will strengthen and develop from experience, but not from a single coaching once every eight to

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