SYNOPSIS
This class will enhance your voiceover skills and expand your market awareness. There will be a focus on current market trends, improving reading abilities through personalized feedback and recording sessions. A key element is how to maximize multiple takes and align reads that represent brand tone, attitude, and style. You'll refine vocal techniques, including pace and emphasis.
The class will also help actors demystify vague client specifications, by providing strategies for common requests like "conversational" or "aspirational" reads. Ultimately, it aims to make you your own director, gain confidence in your choices and increase your ability to secure more bookings.
The class is practical, fun, and skill building.
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Anna Garduno
Anna Garduno is a Bicoastal Actor- Producer- Teacher and the founder of Voiceforward. Anna teaches classes for VO Commercials, Animation, Promos, Narration, and Games globally on Zoom. She has been a guest teacher for the NYU Voice Over program, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Voice Actors of NYC, VO Atlanta, One Voice conferences in Dallas,Gravy for the Brain, NAVA . Anna is on the faculty of The Tom Toddoroff Conservatory as well as The Prepnj. 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 playstation games Jak and Daxter 1 and Daxter 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 suites their unique strengths and range. Voice forward students have booked over a million dollars of jobs on their own, as well as through agents they work with based on their demos. Agencies that Anna's students work with include VOX, SBV, Innovative, CESD, Access Talent, DPN, DDO, ACM, Atlas and more.
REQUIREMENTS
Know the cancellation deadline (see above).
Small group format with a maximum of 14 actors participating.
This class is in person and at the new Don LaFontaine Voiceover Lab inside the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Meryl Streep Center for Performing Artists in Los Angeles:
5757 Wilshire Blvd. - Suite PH1
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Note: The new Don LaFontaine Voiceover Lab is no longer on the Mezzanine Level, it is on the Penthouse (PH) Level. No need to wait downstairs, just go straight to the PH level when you arrive.
Participants are expected to be present for the entire program. See Duration above.