Voice Acting Is Hard! Why?
Reason #1 There is no track
If you want to be a doctor, there is a track.
If you want to be a voice actor, there is no track.
Most people who want to get into voice over go straight to Google.
Whoever has the most money put into SEO comes up first and that's where you likely will stop your research and just dive in.
Reason #2 Lack of Skills
The ability to do a few some funny, squeaky voices does not equal instant success.
You need training. You need storytelling training.
I strongly recommend improv training, on camera training, theater training, opera
training, or standup comedy training. Those will give you that storytelling gene.
The ability to guide a listener through a story is a critical skill.
Reason #3 Lack of Business and Marketing Acumen
This is the poopy grown-up stuff that we don't like to talk about.
Most of you have decided to become a voice actor because you want to get away from all
the poopy grown-up stuff of being able to think and operate like a business and worry about taxes and finances and marketing strategies and all that stuff.
Just today I was overhauling my marketing plan. There's at least 50 or 60 different things I need to do every month to move my business forward just on a marketing level, much less invoicing, managing my finances
balancing my checkbooks, paying my bills, and a host of other stuff.
hard
Thanks For Reading!
To learn more about me, hear some samples, or download my demos, just go to www.tomdheere.com.
Tom Dheere is a voice actor with over 25 years of experience narrating just about every type of voiceover you can think of. He also helps other voice talents navigate the voiceover industry as the VO Strategist. When not voicing or talking about voicing, he produces the sci-fi comic book Agent 1.22.
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