Recently I'd downloaded an audiobook and the content has been so engaging for me. I say this because the voice over itself, I found very off-putting. So much so that I found myself saying, "Geez, I could do better than this!" This led me to several questions:
1. I know there are ways to put yourself out there as a voice over artist (ACX, VoiceBunny, etc.) but am wondering if anyone else has explored this arena? If so, any sites in particular you'd recommend?
2. The age old dilemma of how to gain experience when you have none is also a factor (though I do have some though on the audio front as I used to run a fairly popular podcast (~20K listeners a month) for a year or so, just never did voice over for anything already written. Could I put down work done on the Librivox (https://forum.librivox.org/) projects? Are there other outlets for getting experience?
3. What samples to upload? Most sites want samples of audio recordings where you read something. I can take samples of 2-5 minutes of recording from anything, but am wondering about the legalities. Could I read a few pages from a book or a poem? What about the first few paragraphs of a magazine article? Can I reference previously published audio recordings for projects like Librivox? What would you look for in audio samples if you were looking to find someone to narrate your work?
4. How are voice over or narrators chosen? Assuming the book is published and looking for an audio version, would this be the author or the publisher? I can see how going through a publisher versus self-publishing might be a mitigating factor for both scenarios. What about articles for magazines? Is there a market there?
1. I know there are ways to put yourself out there as a voice over artist (ACX, VoiceBunny, etc.) but am wondering if anyone else has explored this arena? If so, any sites in particular you'd recommend?
2. The age old dilemma of how to gain experience when you have none is also a factor (though I do have some though on the audio front as I used to run a fairly popular podcast (~20K listeners a month) for a year or so, just never did voice over for anything already written. Could I put down work done on the Librivox (https://forum.librivox.org/) projects? Are there other outlets for getting experience?
3. What samples to upload? Most sites want samples of audio recordings where you read something. I can take samples of 2-5 minutes of recording from anything, but am wondering about the legalities. Could I read a few pages from a book or a poem? What about the first few paragraphs of a magazine article? Can I reference previously published audio recordings for projects like Librivox? What would you look for in audio samples if you were looking to find someone to narrate your work?
4. How are voice over or narrators chosen? Assuming the book is published and looking for an audio version, would this be the author or the publisher? I can see how going through a publisher versus self-publishing might be a mitigating factor for both scenarios. What about articles for magazines? Is there a market there?