Voice Over Classes
Until recently the ability to perform voiceovers has been limited to people who live in major cites near the recording studios. Now with digital recording technology and the internet, the voice over market across the United States (and around the world!) has opened up to anyone with the talent, skills and drive to pursue it. With voiceovers you don’t have to be there, you can work anywhere without having to travel.
Opportunities exist for voiceover in commercials, animation, narration, industrial videos, plus new technologies such as Video Games, Digital Video and the Internet.
Voice Over Class
Learn the skills required to succeed in voice overs for radio and television as well as industrial narration, CD-ROMS and the internet. Make your performance unique and develop voice-over skills such as copy interpretation, character development, inflection, pacing, microphone technique and sight reading skills.
You will learn:
• Basic reading with inflection, pronunciation, cadence
• Dialect, straight copy read, pacing
• Your vocal range, age range and style
• How to take direction
• Audition skills
• Commercial reads
• One person, two person, three person reads
• Character development and using your own personality
• How to do character voices, children’s voices, audio books
We will also cover the business of voice over such as how to sign with an agent, what a demo should include, choosing your best work and marketing yourself.
At the end of the 8 weeks you will have the opportunity to record a professional demo reel to jumpstart your voiceover career. (This is optional and an additional charge)
Section 1 Starts: Tuesday January 17, 2012, 11:00am - 1:30pm
Duration: 8 Weeks
Cost: $280.00
INSTRUCTOR: Sari Zalesin
Section 2 Starts: Thursday January 19, 2012, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Cost: $280.00
INSTRUCTOR: Sari Zalesin
Voice Over Class II
The level 2 voice over class will encompass a more intensive program focusing on recording sessions in different avenues of voice over work. Each week a specific technique will be selected, worked on during class and recorded for critique. The weeks selections will pertain to: radio and TV commercials, audio book reads, narration, character voices, industrial reads, technical reads and on-hold services. Giving you a wide range of opportunities that can be pursued in voice over work.
Pre-requisite for class: level 1 or a review from instructor.
Starts: Tuesday January 17, 2012, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Duration: 8 Weeks
Cost: $325.00
INSTRUCTOR: Sari Zalesin
SARI ZALESIN is a nationally recognized voice talent with a 22 year broadcasting background in radio and TV. She has been heard on radio stations across the country including WCSX and WRIF in Detroit, KLXK Minneapolis, KZPS Dallas, The Loop Chicago as well as teaching voice overs and broadcasting at Columbia College in Chicago, and most recently a Music Director and national on air talent atXM Satellite Radio. Sari's vast experience in voice include everything from local Detroit Art Van commericals to National Rent-A-Car, Comcast Cable, Gordon Food Service, Ford Motor Company,General Motors,Saturn Cars,Wal-Mart, Asset Health training, as well as voice verification for Hyundai Cars. Along with several industrial reads, CD- ROM's for Disney, DVD narration for Heifer International, Podcasts forOut LoudOpinion, and the character voice of Kayla the Kangaroo for HealthMark Multi-Media in English and Spanish.
She is recognized for making national history featured in USA Today as the 1st Female Public Address Announcer in the N.H.L. for the Dallas Stars and emcee credits for hundreds of events around the country including Youth AIDS with Ashley Judd and Desmond Tutu in Washington DC. Sari holds the honor of being inducted into the Specs Howard Hall of Fame and has been featured in the NY Times, Fortune 500, Forbes Magazine and locally in the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Working for XM, she covered red carpet interviews and artist catalogue retrospectives interviewing a wide array of celebrities and talent including Kevin Bacon, George Clinton, Kenny Loggins, Barry Manilow, Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson, Anne Murray, Ashley Judd, Elmore Leonard, Dave Mathews, Jon Lovitz, Gwen Stefani, Snoop-Dog, Magic Johnson and Wayne Gretsky.