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Commercial Workout

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Synopsis

Join staff engineer and booth director Lana Migliore for a fun, fast-paced commercial voiceover workout. Participants are required to provide 2 pieces of 30 second commercial copy to work on during class. Each participant will read and receive feedback from the group. Don't miss this opportunity to work...

virtual - Voiceover Orientation

Voiceover Lab Orientation

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 12:00 PM PST | 3:00 PM EST

SYNOPSIS 

Voiceover (VO) Lab programs and recording booth sessions are open to all VO Lab eligible SAG-AFTRA members, regardless of your location. Once you have completed the required Voiceover Programs Profile (online) and the Voiceover Lab Orientation (VOLO), you will have Voiceover Lab eligibility. This 2-hour orientation details what...

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So You Wanna Be an Audiobook Narrator? with James Romick

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Synopsis

Interested in audiobook narration but confused on how to get started? Join industry veteran James Romick as he walks you through the bare bone basics of breaking into audiobooks. In this session James will share resources on where to book work, information you'll need to get going and...

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Los Angeles - Voiceover Lab

Find the Story in Your Commercial Auditions with Mary Lynn Wissner

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 4:00 PM PST

SYNOPSIS

All Commercials tell a story.  In order to tell the story, the talent needs to understand the brand, know marketing and how to tell the story.  What is the context? What is the reason?  Gain the self-directing tools to put your stamp on the story and win auditions....

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New York - Voiceover Lab

Commercial Workout Group: Using Music as a Tool

Thursday, January 23, 2025 2:00 PM EST

Synopsis

Join SAG-AFTRA Foundation Engineer/Booth Director Lana Migliore for an in-person workout like no other! In this workout group participants will be given the chance to explore how different genres of music can affect how they deliver commercial copy. If you find yourself overthinking commercial copy or stuck on...

virtual - Voiceover Lab

Troubleshooting Your Home Studio

Monday, January 27, 2025 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

SYNOPSIS

Prerequisite: Home Studio Basics

This small group session is designed as a hands-on follow up to our Home Studio Basics class. The purpose is to help members who have begun constructing their home studios and have run into issues or challenges.  Led by NY staff engineer and booth...

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Voice Acting for Video Games with Dave Fennoy

Monday, January 27, 2025 5:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM EST

SYNOPSIS

Fantasy, adventure, action, sports, educational, animation...you name it, video games are incredibly popular on a global scale. In fact Video Games are the biggest business in show business, making more money than movies and music combined. Savvy "VG" producers are always aiming to create the next epic virtual...

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virtual - Voiceover Lab

Audiobook Workshop with Suzanne Toren

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 2:00 PM PST | 5:00 PM EST

****ALL READER SLOTS ARE FULL*** IF YOU WISH TO AUDIT THIS CLASS (ie watch and listen but not read) please add your name to the WAITLIST. All names on the waitlist will be given an audit seat****


Synopsis

Struggling with male/female dialogue? Break into a flop sweat when you have to...

virtual - Voiceover Lab

Create or Update a Commercial Voiceover Demo That Stands Out! with Anna Garduno

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

SYNOPSIS

You do not need to have a commercial demo to attend this class.  This class is educational and will provide important information about commercial Voiceover demos for actors at all levels.  Voiceover demos are to voiceover actors, what headshots are to on-camera actors.  They can help...

Los Angeles - Voiceover Lab

Voice-to-Picture Promo Practice

Thursday, January 30, 2025 11:00 AM PST

SYNOPSIS 

"Three beeps and go!  In this promo class, we will focus on TTP...Timing, Tone and Performance.  Actors will add their voiceovers to real network TV promos to learn how to fit phrases into specific spaces, how to follow along with S.O.T. (Sound on Tape) cues and how to...

Los Angeles - Voiceover Lab

Voiceover Audition Practice: Submission, Review and Feedback - Commercials

Thursday, January 30, 2025 3:00 PM PST

SYNOPSIS

Voiceover auditions can be exciting, inspiring and...stressful.  You record the audition, send it off and then.....? Crickets. That can leave you wondering: Did anyone listen to my audition?  if so, what did they think about my performance?  How does my recording space/studio sound? Was my submission competitive? In...

Los Angeles - Voiceover Lab

Documentary Narration

Friday, January 31, 2025 11:00 AM PST

SYNOPSIS

Documentaries are having moment.  From short form to long form, documentaries are a popular niche of Voiceover and it continues to grow.  Im this class we will explore the genre with a variety of subject matter for actors to voice and find their groove as storytellers.


REQUIREMENTS

Copy will be...

Los Angeles - Voiceover Lab

Cast by the Class

Friday, January 31, 2025 3:00 PM PST

SYNOPSIS

During this class we will simulate a voiceover casting session (by committee)..  Each actor will record a voiceover "audition" live for review.   As a group, other class participants will anonymously rate each voiceover performance. The best performances will move to the “Call Back” round., where the group...

Los Angeles - Voiceover Lab

Commercial Reads and Re-Directs

Thursday, February 6, 2025 11:00 AM PST

SYNOPSIS 

Actors will work on different styles of  commercial scripts,  take direction, receive feedback on their creative choices and hone in on bookable voice  performances. 

Instructor: Eric Hurst, Audio Engineer / Booth Director (SAG-AFTRA Foundation Voiceover Lab).


REQUIREMENTS

Scripts will be provided by the Voiceover Lab.

This class is in person and at...

virtual - Voiceover Orientation

Voiceover Lab Orientation

Thursday, February 6, 2025 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

SYNOPSIS 

Voiceover (VO) Lab programs and recording booth sessions are open to all VO Lab eligible SAG-AFTRA members, regardless of your location. Once you have completed the required Voiceover Programs Profile (online) and the Voiceover Lab Orientation (VOLO), you will have Voiceover Lab eligibility. This 2 hour orientation details...

virtual - Voiceover Orientation

Voiceover Lab Orientation

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 12:00 PM PDT | 3:00 PM EDT

SYNOPSIS 

Voiceover (VO) Lab programs and recording booth sessions are open to all VO Lab eligible SAG-AFTRA members, regardless of your location. Once you have completed the required Voiceover Programs Profile (online) and the Voiceover Lab Orientation (VOLO), you will have Voiceover Lab eligibility. This 2-hour orientation details what...