(Is the class full? Fear not -sign up on the waitlist as there are always last-minute cancellations. Luck is on your side!!)
***If you have taken this class or something similar in the past, you will be removed from the RSVP list. This is to ensure equal exposure and opportunity for all of the VOL community to attend.***
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PLEASE NOTE: This commerical VO class is recommended for intermediate/advanced voiceover actors.
IMPOSSIBLE COPY Week One
Professional Voice-over actors are expected to be able to understand and interpret many different types of copy. Most copy is fairly straight ahead, but quite often, an actor will be faced with copy that’s either confusing or what feels like “Impossible Copy”. This two-hour seminar, given over the course of two evenings will address many of these particular issues. The first seminar in this series will address:
Confusing direction
Celebrity references
Working with Ellipses & Phrasing
Repetitive copy
The Right Way to do Three in a Row
Making the most out of Short Copy
Poetic/Storyteller copy
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Sara Krieger transitioned from a celebrated music career in New York to become one of the most steadily working female actors in Voiceover. While her career in music included gigs at the Blue Note in NY and Japan, Jazz festivals around the world and Carnegie Hall (most notably as one of the original members of the Grammy award winning group ‘New York Voices’), what was originally intended to be a supplementary move to Voiceovers evolved into a full time and well regarded career.
Sara has recorded hundreds of spots, including accounts for Estee Lauder, Thermasilk, Orencia, Citbank, Unicef, HGTV, Fox TV, Bloomberg Radio and currently WQXR. She also worked steadily on the Late Show with David Letterman for the last 13 years of the show, as one of his monologue “skit voices”, in addition to filling in for Dave’s regular on air announcer, Alan Kalter.
Sara is also an accomplished voiceover coach and demo reel producer. In addition to her private coaching business, she has also taught many courses for the union’s “Business of the Biz” series, of which she was a co-creator. She has moderated the successful SAG Foundation’sThe Business panel, which presented "The Evolution of Women in Voiceovers” (which can be seen on Youtube). In addition, she is a regular contributor to the SAG Conservatory as well as the EIF Voiceover Lab of the SAG Foundation in New York.
