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!

Mastering Pay 2 Play Auditions        

Stop throwing auditions into the void. In this 4-week workshop, VO Chef Deb shows you how to crack the code of Pay 2 Play sites — from algorithms to profiles to audition strategies — so you stop guessing and start booking.  Pay 2 Play is making a significant mark on the industry, so If you’re paying to play, it’s time to learn how to win        

     
                       

                                                                                          By the end of FOUR WEEKS you will have....                                                          

                                                  

                                                                          The Knowledge to WORK:                           

Know how each major P2P works (and which one is best for their goals).

                                                                     

                                                  

                                                                          The Client:                           

Be able to create a polished, client-focused profile.

                                                                     

                                                  

                                                                          The Algorithm:                           

Understand how to “play nice with the algorithm” without wasting time.

                                                                     

                                                  

                                                                          Workflow:                           

Develop a consistent, efficient audition workflow.

                                                                     

                                                  

                                                                          Strategy:                          

 Leave with a strategy for turning auditions into bookings — and bookings into long-term clients. 

   

Creating a Voice Acting business takes drive! In this 8 week workshop - you will be put to the test. Hands-on activities that force you to look for work. You will walk away with:

• Marketing Schedule/Plan

• Where to look for work 

• How to approach potential clients

• Pay 2 Play, Twitter, Fiverr, and other casting sites

• Finding the right agent

• Cover Letter Outlines

• Follow Ups

• Accountability

• Assessment of your material *whatever stage you are at

This class is designed for everyone, from beginner & intermediate actors, to the working talent who might be hitting a wall and need to make a change!  

This unique approach to finding your own work has proven to be effective for not only hundreds of talents at different levels of their career, but is a tribute to the success of your coach - VO Chef Deb Munro.  

Deb will share her industry secrets with you and take you through a plan from beginning to end, showing you another side to the business that you may have not considered.  This is a daunting industry.  It's not just about having the right skills, getting a great demo and landing an agent!  You have to know how to go after and find the work yourself - and there are not many who want to share.  This is a great opportunity to learn from a talent who built her business from the ground up and continues to thrive in her career.  She isn't going to wait around for it to happen, so join her for 8 intense weeks of research, development and growth and take your career to the next level.

Course Outcomes:       

                                        

Conquering the job search: The traditional route of finding work is time tested, but also HEAVILY saturated. After this course, you'll have a clear understanding of how to adjoin the traditional track of being a voice actor with an outside the lines approach to keep you working for years to come!

                                                                     

A Brand and a Plan: You are your brand. You're also your own boss. Managing and balancing good marketing for yourself AND staying on track with your work are not easy tasks, but they are doable! By the end of this course, you'll be armed with the tools you need to present your best YOU to potential clients, as well as manage your work professionally & consistently!                                                                    
Self Evaluation: It isn't always easy to look at our own work objectively. We're ARTISTS! We're either too hard on ourselves (most of the time) or too proud to notice the weak points (rarely, but it happens!). Whatever stage you're at in your career, by the end of this course, you will be able to look at your materials through a lens of clarity! Whether it's time to freshen up your website, know when its time for a new demo, or re-evaluate where a client interaction went sub-optimally, you'll be able to see yourself where you're at & tackle new challenges head on. 

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 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. 

Dive deep into Acting for Video Games!

Game Mode is a dynamic VO program taught by Chris Okawa based on his monthly workout series Cricket Fam VO Jam curriculum he's taught at Cricket Sound for the past 4 years.Week over week it folds-in vocal disciplines specific to the video game genre, a genre unique for the opportunity to play the entire lifecycle of a character, it's epic theatrical scenework, and a branching, complex narrative structure. Learn how to bring fights to life, spur the Player on, and access new and under-utilized corners of your voice.

Course Outcomes:
Analyze Characters: To be able to deconstruct existing and construct original video game characters from psychology, to physicality, to unique sound. Scene Work: To be able to "read the room" on your audition sides, knowing your role in the grand story arc and playing the scene not the line.  

Vocal Strengths: To find healthy, sustainable vocal placement throughout your natural range to evoke believable performances.                                                                     

Freedom to Perform: Find freedom as an empowered actor, with concrete tools and reference points to let that performance rip.