The 12 Session Plan
When I sat down to think about coaching the first thing I did was think back over my career and all of the things I wish someone had told me before I'd started. I thought of all the useful titbits of information I'd learned along the way, all the areas of the business I hadn't considered before I'd started and how I'd have to navigate social media like a boss to be successful. I also knew I wanted to create something that was simple, straightforward and most importantly had a fixed cost and timescale so people weren't on the hook for session after session after session until I deemed they were "ready".
From that I devised the 12 session plan, designed to take you from having little to no knowledge of the voice over industry to a place where you have all the knowledge and tools you need in order to go out in to the big wide world and start building your voice over career.
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Each lesson is 45 minutes long, preferably over Skype with a webcam so we can work with each other as closely as distance allows but if all you’ve got is a phone then that’s fine too! In each lesson we’ll tightly focus on a single topic that’s a key aspect of working in the voiceover world and discuss practical, real world advice you can take away and implement. Across the twelve lessons we will cover:​
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Initial assessment – Assess where you are, who you are and where you want to go
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Training – Why to train for voice over performance and who to train with
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Setting up your business – The basics of getting a business off the ground
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Demos – What should your voice over demo be like and where should you get them made?
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Marketing – The task most voice actors dread! We’ll discuss marketing techniques as well as how to network
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Social Media – We’ll cover the major platforms and how and why to use them!
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Home studio – How to get set up so you can record at home, a must for anyone starting out in voiceover!
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Voiceover genres – We’ll look at the types of voiceover work, discuss the challenges in each one and which suit you!
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Pay to Play sites – We’ll discuss voice over Pay to Play sites, what’s out there and how to use each one
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Agents – We’ll discuss the role of the voiceover agent, how to get one and what to expect when working with one
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Rates and negotiating – We’ll discuss what sort of rates you should expect for your voiceover work and negotiation
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Preparing yourself – A session in which we’ll discuss what you’re in for in a voiceover career and how to cope!
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In addition to the Skype sessions, as part of my voiceover coaching, I’ll also be there to answer questions over e-mail throughout the course for anything urgent that comes up! An optional extra is to train with me on creating character voices which is something of a speciality of mine, entirely optional if you fancy that genre of voice work!