ulie,
Great post and I completely agree with your reply. I can really relate to this personally. I had taken pretty much every
VO class I could find in the Sacramento area and then sought out help via email/phone and the internet. Once I felt I was ready and was encouraged to create a demo I sought out a local studio that was suggested to me by a
VO coach and proceeded to make my first demo. It was okay but I still do not think it was the best I could do. One issue was that I was basically placed in a both, told to read some scripts (as well as my own for a character demo) and the engineer/producer/owner recorded a few takes with very little coaching. This unfortunately was not the best way to cut a demo but it was the best option I had at the time. If I knew then what I know now, I would certainly had paid to have a real coach/
VO pro assist in putting the demo together.
Another issue I am now facing is that it appears the same engineer that helped me with my demo, used almost the same copy for another
VO talent listed on Cast Images; our commercial demos actually start with the same copy. Is it standard procedures to use the same copy in basically the same order for multiple
VO talents when creating demos? If so, how can one avoid this?
Thanks,
Jon