Cartoons, Movie Trailers, Documentaries, Audiobooks, Business, Educational, Radio, Telephone, Videogames, Jingles, Podcasting, Television, Internet, Music,
Numerous voice over classes at Del Mar Media Arts in Irvine, California. The classes include: Animation Narration
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Television commercial workshop
Orientation to the world of television commercials including lectures and camera techniques. Course focuses on product endorsement, single and multiple spots, video playback, and critique each class.
Film acting techniques
Analysis of the audition process, comparing method, classical, and being disciplines. Course focuses on improvisation, preparing a monologue, dialogue scenes prepared and critiqued.
Voice over 1
Orientation to the skills of voice over acting using a combination of lectures and hands on experience. Course focuses on radio commercials, narration, and animation/character voices, as well as industrial work, demo production, and marketing.
Voice over 2
Continuing study of voice over using more advanced material. Material chosen specifically to the needs of each student. Class culminates with a field trip to a commercial recording studio where students read before a current voice-caster/producer.
Radio theater, audio books, dialects
Students learn skills to perform vocal work in radio theater and books-on-tape, which are very similar in nature. The regional dialects of New York, American Southern, American North Eastern, and British are developed. Class culminates with a field trip to a major recording studio to do a looping session for foreign cartoons and films.
Advanced animation
Intensive advanced work on animation voices. Students learn to create and sustain original characters. Classes visited by current animation artists.
Advanced narration
Refining interpretation skills, focus, and delivery for strength and consistency. Geared toward material such as travelogues, The History Channel, Biography, and instructional tapes and videos.