Voiceover Demo Reel Los Angeles - Planning Your Reel Content

If someone is getting voiceover work you can bet they have a marketable voiceover demo reel. Your demo reel presents your voice to potential clients and it is convenient for them to listen to you first-hand. Every voice actor needs several voiceover demo reels to round out there portfolio. The reels help to showcase your talent and style of voiceover performances. Almost everyone has heard a radio or television program and has become accustomed to a particular vocal style showcased on those broadcasts. Therefore your potential listeners have become accustomed to hearing materials produced in a very particular way.




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To help you out here is a suggested framework:

5 Voice-Over Roles - Which one are you?

Since the time of the great Greek philosophers the art of communicating with other people about a given purpose has been evolving. Over the last 150 years radio and then television shaped our tastes for the spoken word. The most powerful, persuasive, and distinctly human tool in today's marketing world is the Spoken Word. It is the mainstay and the centerpiece of almost all advertising today.
With all of the advantages that today's digital world bestows, it has never been more important for a message to be received and clearly understood and most of all, acted upon. It's true that a great deal of this depends on the copywriting and voiceover skills of the messengers. Which brings us to the five different types of character roles available to today's marketers and voiceover talent. Let's explore these types of character roles in detail.

1.                  Real Person

Presentations requiring a more casual approach and can often benefit from a more relatable and genuine voiceovers style. This style of voiceover is often referred to as the "girl next door" or "regular guy" voiceover. The character is friendly, sensible and home grown with just a touch of familiarity. This almost always, if done right, provides a more intimate interpretation that instills trust in the listener.

2.                  Instructor

When teaching someone on what to do, for example, a children's game, or a incorporate training video, the voiceover best for this type of project is an instructive, straightforward and educated voice. The role of this voice talent is to provide information or instructions to fulfill a specific purpose or goal.

3.                  Spokesperson

A spokesperson may be off-camera, or on-camera depending on the role. The role of the spokesperson is generally played by a charismatic person able to promote a cause, or service and present it with ease, someone who projects authority, or confidence. Voiceover talent like this needs to be optimistic, driven, and assured.

4.                  Announcer

The announcer, usually heard at live events, promos, on commercials or introducing segments for podcasts. The announcer is a part of a bygone time, the Golden age of radio were the announcer was the centerpiece to any broadcast, which followed through to the early days of television.

The announcer introduces ideas and persuasively introduces a call to action at the end of a video or short commercial. Today most announcers sound more like narrators, unlike the early days of radio were the announcer had a particular authority which is no longer in vogue.

5.                  Narrator

For most narrators Storytelling is where they're most at home. They must be courteous honest and intimately knowledgeable on the subject. The narrator's task is to paint the audio landscape for his audience. Informing them of background information, posing questions, and provide solutions as they guide the listener through the program. Narrators are both female and male, most importantly, they must be able to communicate engagingly and clearly.