If you wanted to be a lawyer, medical professional or plumbing technician you would have a clear profession course to follow, exams to take, practical experience to get, and professional bodies to sign up with. The road map to your selected job would be well specified and structured. You would probably have to offer up if you had not achieved your dream by a certain age.

In the voice over world, there is nobody size fits all job: you can't be too old, too chic, or too common; every voice design has a market from kid through to senior and everything in between. Confusingly it all appears, well, so vague and odd. It is as though 'world voice over' were an away location, impregnable, self contained and elitist. However people (yes ordinary individuals) do become voice over performers. They are not necessarily stars or radio professionals; they originate from all walks of life and bring abilities and experience from the genuine world that enrich their shipment.

This part needs to be very easy for you. Simply do a look for "Voice Over Class" and "your city" with Google. Obviously, there may be classes used at your regional universities and performing arts centers. Ask around for good word-of-mouth about them. Then sign-up with the very best and go to! (Prevent classes that end with you paying another $1000 for a demo reel).

Provide something to work with - even though you may require more info to give a proper quote, at least you can inform them your usual per hour rates for non-broadcast work.

However, before investigating the kind of courses readily available, you require to ask yourself a more essential question: do you in fact require any training? Voiceovers are utilized in several markets from television and radio commercials to audio books, on hold phone messages, corporate and organization material, podcasts and website audio material. On the more specialised front there is likewise the world of character/animation voice overs, although this arena is harder to burglarize and needs an unique type of singing ability.

All this will need 2 other individuals (Helpers): One helper who understands about audio devices and recording software (your artist buddy, most likely, or the Guitar Center worker), and a web designer who can produce your website and teach you how to publish audio.

I have actually constantly found freelance narration work to be inconsistent so do not give up your day job, at least not till you get well established. Best of luck. I hope you find your niche in the narration market and get your piece of the numerous areas and narrative scripts that are out there.