You’ve been in the business for years, you have a great website, demo, and client list. So why join a voice acting group? To diversify your work, get new clients, and help keep you busy. Here are four strategies to follow when you join a voice acting group.
Join a group that is genre specific. The best way to meet new clients is to focus on your style. For example, if you specialize in character voices for animation, look for an animation group. If you specialize in audiobooks, look for an audiobook group. If you specialize in video games, look for a video game group. You get the idea. Joining a general voice acting group will not get you the right kind of clients that you need to grow your business.
Meet people who hire voice actors. While it’s true that joining a voice acting group is all about getting new clients, it’s not just about meeting the other voice actors. It’s also about meeting the people who hire them. Make it a point to meet producers and directors at the meetings or events hosted by the groups that you join. They’re the ones that really matter!
Be active in promoting both yourself and the group. If you want to get more out of being part
When I first started voice acting, I was very much a lone wolf. I was doing my own thing, building my own website, and spending most of my time in front of the computer trying to figure out how to get in contact with potential clients. It’s questionable whether or not I was even going about it the right way, but things were still moving in a positive direction.
But then one day I decided to reach out and join a voice acting group. At first, it was just an email list with some other voice actors that would occasionally send me new work opportunities or helpful tips. But as things progressed, we got to know each other on a more personal level and I really began to understand the benefits of working with other people like myself.
It’s easy for people to think that by reaching out to others for help or guidance is some sort of failure on their part–that they couldn’t do it alone. But that’s simply not true. Reaching out and joining a voice acting group is all about learning how you can better yourself as an actor through community and collaboration with others who are in your same position.
If you’re starting out in the voice acting industry and are looking to get some more vocal work, joining a voice acting group is the best way to do this.
A voice acting group is a community that is designed to help those in the industry network with others and meet new clients. More often than not, people who join these groups will eventually move on and start their own group, but it is important for newcomers to join one of these groups and get their feet wet before branching out. This helps them gain confidence in their abilities and find other people who have similar interests to them.
Joining a voice acting group is an excellent way of picking up new clients and, even if you have a full time job, can be done in your spare time. Most voice acting groups will ask you to do training sessions, which are usually free, and will allow you to practice your speech techniques. The training sessions are not only good for your voice, but they also help you to meet new people.
The groups meet up once a week or twice a month, depending on the group. These meetings are often held in public places such as pubs or cafés and are open to anyone who wants to join in. As well as being able to listen to the other members’ voices, most of the groups also like to share their experiences of voice work with one another. This means that you get to hear about what it’s really like on set, how people deal with difficult situations and much more.
This kind of sharing is useful for both people who want to become a professional actor and those who want to do it part-time or just for fun. It is important that you know how other people handle their work and what difficulties they encounter so that you can learn from them.
Like any business, to find success in voice acting you need to have a plan for what you want to accomplish. You also need to have a way to measure how successful your plan is once it’s in motion. I’ve written before about how to set up an audition studio and how to develop a weekly plan that works for you when you’re working from home.
In addition to these important tasks, I would also add one more task: join a voice acting group.
What is a Voice Acting Group?
You can think of this group as your own personal advisory council. A group of like-minded people whose main focus is the same as yours: building a career in voice over. The people in this group may or may not be further along than you are, but they will all share similar interests and will be willing to talk about those interests with you.
How Will a Voice Acting Group Benefit Me?
As with anything, there are pros and cons to joining such a group, so let’s take a look at each.
Pro: You’ll get feedback on your auditions or website/marketing materials from people who understand what you’re trying to do. You’ll also gain insights into what other voice talents are doing that is (or isn’t
We all want to be the best at what we do, and often wonder why we are not getting the clients we think we deserve. The answer is simple: because you are not networking.
Join a voice acting group.
There are many reasons to join a voice acting group, but these are my top five.
1. You will have more people in your network.
2. You will have more opportunities to network with people in different genres of voice acting, allowing you to make connections you might otherwise not have made!
3. It gives you something to talk about in interviews when someone asks about your hobbies.
4. There will be more people for you to practice on (and for them to practice on you)!
5. You will become friends with other people who share your passion for this industry!
If none of those reasons convinced you, then I don’t know what will!
We have been teaching voice acting classes for 20 years in Seattle and have seen many students come through our doors, some who are working professionally as a result of taking our classes, others who continue to work on their craft. One thing remains certain, by taking a class you are putting yourself out there and making connections that can lead to future work.
It is so important to be seen and heard and to keep honing your skills, especially when working on your own. By taking a class you get out of your own head, your own space and take in the wisdom of others and learn from their experience as well as sharing your own.
Working with others creates an energy that can spark creativity and new ideas! And it keeps you accountable.
The best place to start is with a basic voice over class. The most important thing to remember is that this is not an audition. At DPN we do not teach from a curriculum or script, rather we teach how to see the copy for what it is, how to apply “acting” techniques to what you see and hear and how to “think on your feet” in the studio environment so that you are ready for anything that comes at you! We share our knowledge of terminology, equipment and the business
