How to Make a Home Voice Reel
While acting is a difficult profession to succeed in, voice-over acting can be very lucrative. Voice-over acting has many niches, for actors with particular voice types and accent capabilities. However, in order to book voice-over acting jobs, you need to have a voice reel. Ideally, you will have this recorded professionally, but some actors, for financial reasons, wish to make their voice reels at home when they are just starting out.
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Things You'll Need
- Sound editing software program
- Blank CD
- Voice recording software
- Scripts
Instructions
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Go through a series of scripts, until you find text that really speaks to you and that you can bring out as an actor. Select scripts that you connect to, that use the specific qualities of your voice, and that require accents with which you are proficient. Select several texts to use in your voice-over reel.
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Record yourself doing the scripts that you selected. Record several takes of each script.
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Listen to all of your takes; select the best one for each script.
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Upload your recordings to your computer by using voice editing software. Cut your favorite takes together.
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Transfer your cut-together reel to a CD.
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