
Commercial Voice Over Strategies
Tell a Story, Land the Job (The Voice Over and Voice Acting Series)
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Chris Agos
About this listen
The complete handbook for anyone wanting to book more commercial VO jobs.
Voice actors across the globe rely on commercials as a good source of income, but success in this area of the voice over industry can be tricky. VO talent need a strong understanding of the many elements involved in delivering captivating, original commercial reads.
Commercial Voice Over Strategies: Tell a Story, Land the Job is the answer. Veteran voice talent Chris Agos walks you through a step-by-step way of ensuring your reads will resonate with talent buyers.
You'll learn:
- The eight commercial styles dominating today's advertising
- How an advertiser's industry, sector, or history should influence your reads
- How to use the psychology of each script to your advantage
- A way of making your auditions come alive through world-building
- How to know the advertiser's intent behind the spot before you read a word of it
- One thing ad copywriters don't want when they listen to auditions
You'll get:
- A simple, step-by-step way of analyzing, interpreting, and delivering commercial scripts
- Scripts modeled after actual commercials that have aired
- An easy but effective copy-marking system
- An understanding of the many elements that must align in order for a voice actor to book a job
- A detailed look into the commercial casting process
To be competitive in today's commercial marketplace, you need to be a commercial copy master. Give Commercial Voice Over Strategies a listen today!
©2020 Chris Agos (P)2020 Chris AgosListeners also enjoyed...
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- George Munoz
- 01-28-21
Very Informative
Full of personal insights and life experience we can all learn from and hopefully avoid the many pitfalls. Great read presented by a pro. Thanks
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- Krob
- 05-22-22
A Must Have! Humorous and Strait to the Point.
Chris takes you through all the important parts of being a successful VO artist, clearly and concisely.
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- Jesus Acosta
- 09-21-20
Great Advice and Pointers
Chris Agos gives great advice and pointers to become a better and smarter Voice Over Actor, something he wished he could have heard while pursuing Acting. Chris wants VO Actors to be successful in this difficult but fun industry. Thanks again for sharing your experiences as a Actor. Listening to all of your audiobooks have really helped and have opened my mind.
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- kypar
- 06-06-22
Great voiceover coaching!
I’ve met Chris virtually and he’s a top VO pro. I learned a lot from this audio book.
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