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Voice Acting

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While you may be dreaming of gracing the silver screen with your riveting stage presence and stunning good looks, you might consider voice acting as a side pursuit. Unfamiliar? Voice acting is done primarily for animated features and cartoons, but there is also a lot of work in radio. You might not get to appear on screen, but your voice will be associated with the character you do the voice for, giving the character it's personality and feel.

There is no special way to get into voice acting. You can make an audition tape with samples of the different voices that you do, and start shopping it around. Radio stations, animation studios, these are some of the places that you will be working for. Some people find it useful to get an agent that specializes in voice acting work. They can help you find jobs and let people producing projects hear your audition tape - increasing the chances that someone will hear your voice and decide they want you for their next project. You can even post your audition tape online with an Internet talent service.

Voice acting is fun because you give characters their personality, and use funny voices to give commercials and announcements their flavor. Movie trailers use voice-acting pros to help create the feel of the movie in a three-minute segment. You've heard it before; "He was a cop who wouldn't give up, she was a public defender with nothing to lose...together, they brought a vicious crime ring to it's knees..."