Essentially, this website has 2 purposes.
First, to tell you that a working professional with well over half a century as a voice (and on-camera) performer in national and international television, radio and motion pictures is here to teach the essentials, the secrets, the methodology and the pathway to make it in the wonderful world of voiceover. I cannot urge you strongly enough to thoroughly checkout the person or persons with whom you intend to study.
Make sure I’m not a phony by checking with my manager and agents the best in the country.
Is the person or persons you intend to study with a working performer, or even a “has been?” (That’s better then a “never was.”)
Secondly, and quite simply, as a performer who loves his work, this website is my pitch to sell what I do. I’ve always said: “It sure beats working for a living!”
Proper training is essential to those who aspire to succeed in the voiceover field. New technologies, from web-based interactivity to video games and entertainment systems, to corporate information systems and more, have expanded the demand for voiceover. The competition for the voices that fill the growing need has risen dramatically. Those who will thrive in this business at the highest levels are those who are trained to meet what is required at this level and understand the way business at the top is done. Individuals in voiceover who fail to reach the top echelon will ultimately either quit the business out of frustration or survive with the vast majority of others like themselves, at the lower paying, local levels, whose voiceover training inadequately prepared them for the higher earning opportunities.
Training is everything. Be sure that your voiceover training coach has a strong background in performing voiceover and in teaching its science.
All the best,
Don Morrow
PS
There’s no better time than now to launch your voiceover career. In my more than fifty years in the business, I have never seen so much demand for voiceover, nor so many areas where voiceover is being applied. Much of this new demand is a result of this exploding age of technology we are so fortunate to be living through.
If you’re interested, and I mean, seriously interested, in developing a successful voiceover career, you must start off on the right foot. Why? Because in a highly competitive business such as this, frustration can come early and earning potential can be seriously compromised.
Your voiceover career should be built on a solid foundation. Here’s how: thoroughly investigate and then engage only the best, most experienced voiceover trainer. There are lots of so called experts out there, misleading potential students with vague or deceptive lists or stories of their own voiceover career experiences. Demand to know the specifics. Ask the tough questions that will reveal specific voiceover performance and teaching credits. Then, ask the same of me. And compare.
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