Erin Kress

Turn your voice into your vocation with just a few weeks of training in this comprehensive voice acting course, covering everything from the business to the art - the largest of its kind in the industry!

Being able to do a variety of unique voices can be a huge plus in your career and make you a must-keep for clients and studios.The ability to portray different characters and make them sound different enough that you can have them in the same scene and not sound like they are the same person is a skill that few have, but not something that can't be learned.

 

Course Outcomes: This course will help students find where they are in their confidence in the area of character voices, and will then help them stretch their boundaries and think outside the box. All this will hopefully help them start building a unique character library that they can better pull from for auditions and roles.

A massive overview of how to find work in voice acting! From Agents to P2P to reaching out to your community to tracing back how to get in touch with the right people - this course has it all! (Will give the actual description once available again)

An in-depth overview of various P2P websites

A solid foundation in audio as a voice talent in this modern remote-working world is imperative, especially when working with studios and engineers, and while it takes time to master the craft, we want to give you a fast and effective path towards a professional standard of work in your own home studio.

Over the course of 6 weeks we will cover introduce to you such necessary tools as gain staging, EQ, and compression as well as real world uses of the skills needed to be successful.

You will be given audio examples and practical projects that relate closely to real-world professional practice. This is a hands on course designed to guide you, step-by-step, along the path to possessing a strong skillset in audio engineering your voiceovers                

                                        

Course Outcomes:                                            

                                                    

                                                       

Treat Your Space: We will reinforce that one of the most important things to do as a remote talent is to properly treat your recording space. Learn some considerations in setting up your own home studio, and how you can create a recording space that can offer broadcast quality recordings even with very little budget.

                                                                     

Home Studio Sound Quality Assessment & Feedback: As part of this course, Tony and Neth invite students to send in home studio audio samples (with photos) and they'll sit down to give detailed feedback and thoughts on any acoustic treatment improvement suggestions or tips that might help you take your remote recording quality to the next level!

In VA201 'The Emotional Roller Coaster', you will learn how important emotions are in the world of acting. Without feelings and emotions it is very difficult to bring words to life in a way that will engage the listener. Over the next 8 classes we will take you on the ride of a lifetime as we put you in the front seat of your emotional rollercoaster. You will work on techniques that will help you face your fears and get rid of any nerves you face that can get in the way of a great performance. You will discover how to bring hidden intentions into everything you read.

Explore an emotional journey and break down common basic emotions and get in touch with how you express emotions for different situations and how you can bring this into everything you do. You will uncover effective ways for your characters to express their emotions and hidden intentions that will differ from your own. Learn the different elements that contribute to creating emotion in your script from an acting perspective as well as production. Master the tools and techniques that will help you bring your scripts to life. You will learn how listening and reacting will completely change the way you perform. There will be plenty of scripts to read in this course, so grab your box of Kleenex, get your chops ready and hang on for an emotional ride into the world of emotional performance.

Course Outcomes:
Emotiong: There is a strong emphasis on emoting in this class, that touch on frustration, anger, sorrow, excitement, resentment, lying, love, tenderness, happiness, joy, fear, and many, many others. Each week will cover a different topic, with classroom activities and discussion being the highlights of the class.  

                                                  

Reading: Often overlooked, reading is one of the most important parts of life success. Being able to read aloud well helps you look more confident in front of others, more professional,and greatly improves your empathy when relating with people, which not only makes you a better actor, but a better human.                                                                     

                                                  

Listening: In order to become a great storyteller, you have to hear inside the hearts of others.