SYNOPSIS
Join Anna for a fun, informative, practical discussion of All Things Demo so you can keep 'taking your voice forward !"
Anna's focus will be on the different kinds of demos with an emphasis on Commercial and Animation Demos:
-What Makes a Great Demo?
-How do you know what types of reads to put on demos.
-What are the things NOT to put on a demo?
-Do all demos need to be 'professionally" done?
-How many do I need?
-Where do I get material for my demo?
Anna will give you specific examples of where to find original material for your demos as well as how to create original characters for your animation demos.
The class will include listening to great demos and pointing out what makes them work.
There will be a Q&A after the presentation.
PLEASE NOTE: this a seminar and Q&A. No reads will be taking place.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Anna Garduno is a Bicoastal Actor- Producer- Teacher and the founder of VOICEFORWARD. Anna teaches classes for VO Commercials, Animation, Promos, Narration, and Games in both LA and York. She has been a guest teacher for NYU Voice Over program and is on the faculty of the Tom Toddoroff Conservatory. Anna has been nominated best VO teacher on both coasts two years in a row by the readers of Backstage. She is the only nominee to be given this honor for both NY and LA . As an actor Anna has decades of experience as a VO artist. She can currently be heard voicing the character of PALMON on the DIGIMON animated series as well as Selby the bear on the animated series KIOKA. Anna was nominated best character voice actor for her role as Kiera in the playstion games Jak and Daxter 1 and 2 . by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences,
Anna also produces demos with her students working closely with each student to write/ and or select and rehearse copy that best suited to their unique strengths and range. Voice forward students have booked hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jobs on their own as well as through agents they work with based on their demos. Agencies Anna's students work with include VOX, SBV, INNOVATIVE, CESD, ACCESS TALENT, DPN, DDO, ACM, PARADIGM, ATLAS and more.
REQUIREMENTS
This class will be roughly 2-2.5 hours.
