How To Avoid Overloading Your Voice Over Demo

When you load your voice over demo with examples of everything, in an attempt at showing versatility, you are putting way too much bait on the one hook.

Do this! Work out, with a coach preferably, what it is about your voice style that a casting person would ‘buy’.

Work with your coach on different kinds (or styles) of scripts to find out which one’s you’re naturally good at. 

Are you best at conversational delivery, good at stylized announcer scripts, got a great bright voice suited to promos, energized or retail reads?

Are you great at story-telling, solid at information or instructional delivery, stunning at jumping into someone else’s shoes?

Could you be an audio book narrator? Do you have great skills for character voices?

But the thing is, unless you present a demo that solves the casting person’s problem, which is, “who will we book to do this job?”, by overloading, you’ve done these things:

• Wasted an opportunity to show variety and versatility for the work they cast.
• Showed that you are unclear about what kind of voice actor you are, and worst of all
• Annoyed them. As in, you made them do the work, trying to imagine what you’d be good at, or where you’d fit

When you present a demo that’s just full of stuff, all it says is that you don’t understand the structure of the industry. You will appear unprofessional and appear as though you don’t know what you’re doing.

Need help with your demo?

Email me abbe(at)voiceovercoach.com.au