Steve England & Julia Small Guest speakers:
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Course Title: Voice Over Location: On-demand Videos Duration: 4 Hours Access: Desktops, Tablets, Mobiles and Smart TV Certificate of Completion Course Rating on Udemy: 4.65 (out of 5 stars) |
London TV Training is delighted that Voice Over course has achieved a great success at ABU Media Academy in October 2023.
633 individuals enrolled in this course. Over 250 participants from different cities across Indonesia and participants from a diverse range of countries, including Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji, Egypt, Iran, India, the Philippines, Maldives, Vanuatu, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Laos, and the Solomon Islands.
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About this course
If you think you have a voice that people keep complimenting then you may have the raw material to make a career in the world of voice-overs.
Once you have applied yourself and learnt the skills of a voice-over you can walk into any studio and perform. You don’t need any equipment to do this – just your voice – it’s the ultimate portable skill.
If you do want to work from your own studio at home we’ll show you what you need.
Like any other skill, for example juggling, you have to practice and apply yourself. This course will show you what you need to do to become proficient at voice-overs and find the niches for which your voice is best suited.
In recent years, voices and accents of all kinds have become in demand, you no longer have sound like the honey voiced announcers of old. The use of voice-overs has grown exponentially with media of all kinds needing voice work for their productions, and this is your opportunity.
All over the world English is the international language and there are many possibilities to supply those voice-overs yourself to producers abroad.
You’ll learn from experienced voice-overs on how they get work and producers on what they want and need from a voice. We’ll show you how to improve your voice and make yourself more versatile. This course opens the door to a well paid profession you can even do from home.
Once you have applied yourself and learnt the skills of a voice-over you can walk into any studio and perform. You don’t need any equipment to do this – just your voice – it’s the ultimate portable skill.
If you do want to work from your own studio at home we’ll show you what you need.
Like any other skill, for example juggling, you have to practice and apply yourself. This course will show you what you need to do to become proficient at voice-overs and find the niches for which your voice is best suited.
In recent years, voices and accents of all kinds have become in demand, you no longer have sound like the honey voiced announcers of old. The use of voice-overs has grown exponentially with media of all kinds needing voice work for their productions, and this is your opportunity.
All over the world English is the international language and there are many possibilities to supply those voice-overs yourself to producers abroad.
You’ll learn from experienced voice-overs on how they get work and producers on what they want and need from a voice. We’ll show you how to improve your voice and make yourself more versatile. This course opens the door to a well paid profession you can even do from home.
What will you learn:
- How the voice business works
- What you may need to change in your own voice
- How to learn from experienced voice-overs and acquire their skills
- Insight on building your own home studio inexpensively
- Where to find work
- Developing your versatility
- Tips on reading fluently
- Editing audio you record yourself
You will also get familiar with:
- Microphone technique
- Making a read interesting
- Expanding your “comfort zone”
- Special skills for reading commercials
- How to get clients and how to keep them
- Reading to time
- Making a showreel
- How to sound “real”
- The different people and organisations that need voice-overs
- How to deal with producers
After this course you will be able to:
- Explore the interesting and exciting world of voice-overs
- Begin improving what you have vocally and making it marketable
- Start auditioning for work and improving your success rate
- Find your strengths and areas of work you are best suited for
- Taking the first steps to building a client base and a career in voicing
Requirements
No special requirements are required to take this course. A willingness to learn and practice will take you a long way – we will show you how to do this. A good positive attitude is important and we’ll show you how to use your spare time to practice and improve. Our courses are suitable if you want to learn new skills and upgrade your talents and you career. Learning to use your voice effectively will help you in any career and get you noticed and appreciated. It will also enhance your CV.
Testimonials:
"Amazing! Great tutor with his colleagues. Few guest who are voice over artists, those whom are in this industry like audiobook author, voice over producer. All in one. Hope you will make more like this. Thank you so much!"
Nicky K
"WOW! Excellent course. A number of professionals lecturers. Hope I can find to practice! Practice and practice. Great online course from a to z of voice over. Thank you."
DJ Man
"Professional lecturer with years of experience. Great! I also enjoyed the tips of other professionals in audiobook and audio producing. I strongly recommend this course to all who would like to learn the art of voice over from professionals. Thanks!"
Tina Yoka
"Well described and touched points and explained the editing part very well. would like to know more editing software and more about the technical aspects in voice over."
Chandrani Chakravarty
Nicky K
"WOW! Excellent course. A number of professionals lecturers. Hope I can find to practice! Practice and practice. Great online course from a to z of voice over. Thank you."
DJ Man
"Professional lecturer with years of experience. Great! I also enjoyed the tips of other professionals in audiobook and audio producing. I strongly recommend this course to all who would like to learn the art of voice over from professionals. Thanks!"
Tina Yoka
"Well described and touched points and explained the editing part very well. would like to know more editing software and more about the technical aspects in voice over."
Chandrani Chakravarty
Tutors
Steve England
Head of Radio commercial producer, programme director, and voice-over artist since 1973.Radio Caroline, Radio Atlantis, ILR stations, Piccadilly Radio in Manchester are few of his long experiences in radio and voice-over activities. He also set up with a session musician Alfasound, a professional recording studio which grew to 7 studios producing soundtracks to TV commercials, jingles, corporate audio and more radio commercials than any other recording studio in the UK. Steve has produced voice-overs and recording services for TV and Radio with s2Blue Studios, who represent JAM and PAMS productions of Dallas in the UK. He has done thousands of voice-overs for radio and television productions around the world.
http://www.steveengland.com/
http://www.steveengland.com/
Julia Small
Julia Small has worked in many radio stations handling commercial traffic including The Revolution 96.2, Galaxy Manchester and currently Manx Radio. She began voicing when she was a child and has continues to voice thousands of radio and TV commercials as well as corporate scripts. Clients have included Bic Razors, Manchester United, Trivago and The ITV pollen count.
http://juliasmall.co.uk
http://juliasmall.co.uk
Guest Speakers
London TV Training is honoured to have professional guest speakers for this voice over course. Steve England has conducted a number of interviews with our invaluable guests, where they have shared their long-term experiences in a number of fields that help voice over enthusiasts.
Chris Brookes
Screen Writer and Author
Chris’ love of storytelling was nurtured by his early career working in theatre production. Since then, he has worked in numerous management roles but always continued to indulge his passion for writing. He has developed scripts for TV, theatre and more recently took to novel writing.
Living in Sheffield, England, Chris’ fictional books are inspired by the city’s first probation officer and the gritty, often perverse, characters listed in his registers. He likes to write against the backdrop of the early 1900s and is drawn towards the premise of redemption and triumph over adversity.
Creative by nature, Chris is also an accomplished artist with several of his works being published as limited editions prints.
Chris Brookes' books on Amazon
Living in Sheffield, England, Chris’ fictional books are inspired by the city’s first probation officer and the gritty, often perverse, characters listed in his registers. He likes to write against the backdrop of the early 1900s and is drawn towards the premise of redemption and triumph over adversity.
Creative by nature, Chris is also an accomplished artist with several of his works being published as limited editions prints.
Chris Brookes' books on Amazon
Rachel Knighting
Head of Production & Audio Producer at S2Blue
Rachel Knighting has worked as an engineer and producer in several studios including the one she currently works at, S2Blue Studios in Manchester, UK. Her experience of working with many voice-overs over the years has given her valuable insight into the world of voice acting.
https://www.s2blue.com/studiohire
https://www.s2blue.com/studiohire
Tom Marshall
Producer and Voice Over Artist
Tom Marshall is a British voiceover artist based in England. He has worked with hundreds of clients over the years and still have a great working relationship with them. Tom works from his fully equipped, professional studio and can be directed in live sessions on ISDN, Cleanfeed or Source Connect and also has done a number of 'self record'.
https://tommarshallvoiceover.co.uk/
https://tommarshallvoiceover.co.uk/
Steve Jones
Director at Spoken-Image
Steve started out with aspirations to become a rock star. That never quite materialised but in its place he has enjoyed a career that includes working as a director/producer of corporate video, documentaries, animation and multimedia productions. In 2001 he received 2 BAFTA nominations for his work as the producer of a 52 episode animated children’s TV series for CBBC and Fox Kids in the USA.
Steve has also done voice over work on both his own programmes and as a voice for hire for a range of clients including Microsoft and Jaguar Land Rover. He is Managing Director of Spoken Image, a design company based in Ancoats, Manchester… and he is still a gigging musician!
https://spoken-image.com/
Steve has also done voice over work on both his own programmes and as a voice for hire for a range of clients including Microsoft and Jaguar Land Rover. He is Managing Director of Spoken Image, a design company based in Ancoats, Manchester… and he is still a gigging musician!
https://spoken-image.com/
Emma Davis
Producer and Voiceover Artist
Emma Davis is an experienced voice over who runs her own voice over business and works for clients all over the world. In this course she talks about how she get into the voice acting business and what was her part to set up to do voicing full time.
https://ed-creative.co.uk/
https://ed-creative.co.uk/
