The Art of Voice Acting: The Craft and Business of Performing for Voice-Over

by James R. Alburger

The Art of Voice Acting continues to be an excellent introduction to the business and art of voice acting. Newly updated to reflect the latest changes in the industry, this new edition features more contributions from professional voice artists and voice-acting coaches. It also covers job opportunities in the field and career management tips, such as working with a personal agent and keeping detailed records. Including an expanded appendix of Internet resources and a new companion CD-ROM--complete with audio examples--this is the perfect modern manual to getting established in the voice acting industry.


This book introduces performance techniques and offers many useful tips, including how to build a career as a voice-actor. Complete with a large variety of scripts to use for practice and a CD-ROM with actual examples and voice-over demos, it takes readers step-by-step through a recording session, a review of equipment set-up, and some of the difficulties they might encounter when recording and performing.

Genres: Nonfiction, Theatre, Business, Reference

272 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1998

Reviews

[Brent · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of hit and miss. The exercises are good but the whole thing feels padded for length.

[Rica · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are interested in the world of voice acting, this book is for you. This was the only edition available at my library so I was sort of sad, but this book covers more than I need to know. There's so many helpful and useful tips from step one. Even if you don't know anything about voice acting, this book will help you. And if you already know a lot about voice acting.. I'm sure you'll read some very new information! Although the book may seem very thin, there's more information than it seems. I don't get tired of reading this book, every time I read it, I pick up something new and useful.

[Osamuyi Okpame · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although it provided some useful information and tips about Voice Acting. But similar to other Voice Acting books, it looks kind of over worded with some unneccessary part that should have been taken off to reduce the book size and make it more interesting

[Christopher Sheridan · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books on VO out there.

[Jerrod · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found a lot of good material here, both in regards to acting and voice work. Among some of what I was looking for at first, are things to do for my voice. Ways to take care of and recover after long sessions. The latter half of the book is more of a break down in different styles of VA rather than informative, it is almost like an opportunity to practice and workshop the skills.

[Sakshi Singh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is amazing and informative. it's the first book I read on voice acting and wow.. it's a perfect choice to start with. Author discribed every aspect of voice acting and how to learn that. it's good for both Voice actors and Actors.

[Steve Kubick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alburger approaches the subject of "acting for ugly people" and shows that there are no ugly actors...

[Valerie Anne]

Chockfull of useful information.

[Marilyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally finished it! It was beneficial, for the most part...some good tips I can use immediately and will.

[Reina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is something I should just buy for reference's sake. It is a pretty awesome book to study from for this craft :)

[Tony]

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