How to Take a Voice Acting Workshop

Taking a voice acting workshop can vastly improve your chances of acquiring work as a voice actor. Take a voice acting workshop to improve on your craft and introduce yourself to the business of making money as a voice actor.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Find an instructor who has proper credentials. Avoid taking voice acting workshops with instructors who do not fill the academic bill. Check out an instructor's resume. He will probably have more to offer you as a student if his experience in the business is lengthy. Ask for referrals from people in the entertainment business.

2. Contact potential workshop instructors. Have conversations with them over the phone. Consider taking workshops with instructors who are engaging and genuinely interested in teaching you the craft.

3. Audit workshop classes. Auditing a workshop class will help you determine if a particular instructor's workshop is for you. Gauge his interaction with students. Determine how effective his instruction is.

4. Decide on a voice acting workshop that emphasizes teaching you how to act with your voice. All too often, voice acting workshops merely teach students how to alter their voices. Remember that the goal is learning how to act in addition to a change of voice.

5. Choose a voice acting class that has a business component. After learning how to act with your voice, you also want to learn how to acquire jobs with your new skill.

6. Register for the course. Pay all associated fees. Purchase required reading materials.

7. Attend the workshop.

Tips & Warnings

• Avoid registering for classes that have more students than can be given individual instruction time. Workshops are meant to develop individual skills. You need to be on a microphone in front of the workshop at least twice each workshop session.