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Bob Hoskins performance is Roger Rabbit is a must-watch performance worth studying, to anyone going into film and tv acting. by doowopcartoons  •  last post Jun 20th

Working with animated characters in a live-action environment is increasingly becoming more common these days. Jurassic World, Space jam, Game of Thrones, to smaller budget things like The Stanley Dynamic, or car insurance commercials, It is common for actors having to work with animated characters. However aginst with an animated character is something that even the best actors in Hollywood struggle with, It is hard for many of them to feel awkward to knowing how to act with something that isn't there. However, this Hoskins's performance in roger rabbit works, as He had professional mime training, meaning Hoskins's knew how to to do this trick. As a result, his performance feels natural, and real when he's acting with the toons. As such I highly recommended you Rewatch(Or most currently watch if you haven't) and study Bob Hoskins's performance in the film. Try your best and remove the toons from the eatch scene. Notice how 100 % of the time he accurately imagines the Eye line of every character. Notice how also accurately imagine the height and width, weight, and texture of every Toon/Object he interact's with. Then compare it with pretty much any other performance with an animated characters, and you will notice how much less natural and more awkward the performance is. I think studying Bob Hoskins's miming techniques in the film , is something that could potently help you stand out in an a audition, especially if their is visual effects of any kind involved.

ACTORS/ACTRESSES WANTED! - Action/Comedy Project by Nate_Oh_Potato  •  last post Jun 20th

Hey all! Long post here. I've been hard at work on my first big screenwriting project, "Thunderclap", for a few months now. I've moved into a phase of the project where I'd like to begin working on a "concept" or "pitch" trailer. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, it's essentially a smaller-scale movie trailer that serves to show the tone and style of the project, without the need to be a full-length trailer. Because it's just a concept trailer, I'll be piecing it together using raw footage from online and miscellaneous clips from similar movies. Although those parts won't be original, I'd like to have some voiceovers and dialogue from the main characters (and some others) during the trailer. That's why I wanted to reach out to you guys in this community! **Title:** "Thunderclap" **Genre:** Action/Comedy **Logline:** After the death of his former partner, a washed-up, middle-aged superhero must reunite his old team in order to vanquish the looming threat of supervillains. Since it's voice acting, it can be done during any time from anywhere (though I'd like to have a quick one-on-one with each actor/actress beforehand). Below I have the characters in the trailer, as well as a short summary and celebrity casting choice for each. **Character List (no specific order):** * **Joel / Thunderclap** *(Celebrity Casting: Will Ferrel)*: Male. Mid- to late-40s. A washed-up, middle-aged superhero. *Wants* superhero fame, but *needs* to feel appreciated. * **Snowstorm** *(Celebrity Casting: Carey Mulligan)*: Female. Joel's former superhero partner. Stole glory and fame from his years ago when they were young, causing Joel to be dishonorably discharged from the team. * **Newscaster**: Any gender. 20-35 years old. * **Night Owl** *(Celebrity Casting: Sigourney Weaver)*: Female. Late 40s, early 50s. Much more reserved than the others. Retired by her own accord years ago. * **Commander** *(Celebrity Casting: John Goodman)*: Male. Late 60s, early 70s. A rough-and-tough army man, current commander of the Justice Avengers. * **Blackwing** *(Celebrity Casting: Josh Hutcherson)*: Male. Mid- to late-20s. Edgy, hot-headed, and takes himself too seriously. If you have any interest in any of these roles, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message directly! The script for the concept trailer will depend on which roles we have filled, but I will send out a rough draft of it ASAP. I can also send the full-length script upon request, so you can get a better feel for whichever character you have. Thanks a million! I look forward to working with you on this fantastic project!

How easy is it to memorize a script? by JosueTinoco  •  last post Jun 19th

Hello, I am new to this subreddit, for years I have wanted to become an actor, I think I could get a little experience in my middle school musical. I have all the traits and vocal level and absolutely everything and a lot of potential according to the director, we have auditions in the fall but we have started working on it and will keep working on it during the summer. I want to do it, but the thing that I question is, how easy is it to memorize a script? Could anybody tell me, I’d appreciate if it could be told in a scale from 1-10. Thanks and have a wonderful evening!

Cable length issues with the focusrite scralett 2i2 by Helpful_Bugger  •  last post Jun 19th

Hi there fellow voice actors and aspirants. I've been building a studio over lockdown and one of the issues I find is with the cable length of my interface being too short to reach into my booth, I have a hole drilled in the wall for it but it's still a bit too short. Now I read that you shouldn't have an overly long usb cable running from your interface to your laptop or whatever. Currently I have to make do by running my XLR under the door (as I don't really want to make an XLR sized hole in the wall) What are some methods that you chaps use?

10 Questions Of A Rookie by maquafresh  •  last post Jun 19th

Hi all! I'm very very new to the voice acting and voice over scene. I've done one voice acting character workshop in which I was told I have good acting ability and voice for acting and voice over work. That's about as far as my resume goes. So as you can see, I'm essentially clueless as to the finer details of starting a voice acting/voice over career. This brings me to the reason for this post. I have a lot of gaps in my knowledge. Though I've done research and have practiced reading scripts, I don't feel I know nearly enough to take any first substantial steps. I'm going to list a few questions about things I really feel like I should know, and will hopefully help others in my position. If you can answer one then please do! If you can answer multiple, then that's awesome! Any extra advice or information, as well as information resources such as gravy for the brain wouldn't go a miss either. Apologies if any of these questions seem irrelevant or stupid. And also, I already know to manage my expectations on this. For the moment, the reason I'm interested in voice acting and voice over is simply due to interest alone. I don't expect to get a lot of gigs at first, or even any for a long time, and I know there is a lot of competition for jobs. So, the questions: 1. Is voice acting included in the catagory for voice overs? This is more a terminology question. For instance, would a voice over coach be expected to be able to teach voice acting? 2. Voice over coaching is something I'm looking into. As I have no experience on the business side or the work side of voice overs, would a voice acting coach be a good way to learn both? Or is it a better idea to just try amateur work and learn by doing? 3. I am interested in both voice over and voice acting, I.e, character acting as well as voice overs/ narration work for ads and whatever. Is it smart to try to persue both? 4. Character actors seem to have a range of accents and voices they can do. These are usually shown off in demo reels. Are character voices and accents necessary to succeed in voice acting, or are they just preffered? 5. This ties into question 4. I am trying to learn to do character voices, just by playing around with accents and tone and voices. Usually I'll just change my voice however I can, think of what kinda character would suit that voice, then model it to that character slightly more (though, I'm still not good at that yet since, as mentioned, I am new). Is there a way YOU learned to do character voices that you could recommend me, or any resources that could give me an idea of where to start? (I've realised going through the alphabet in an accent helps with accents and so may help me become more fluent in whatever voice I create). 6. I know my voice is suited to voice over, narrations and advert kind of work as well as character work. I'm British (South England) with a upper middle class accent and a deep voice. Is this enough to just start looking for amateur work in narration? I assume acting work would require more practice and training than simply reading an ad script (not to shit on people who do ads, terms and conditions sound hard, I respect you for being the posh rappers of society). I get pronunciation and fluency in sight reading is important to train for both, but doesn't seem like something I'd need to get perfect considering I can just re-record it and stich it together if it's not right before I send the complete work. 7. Advertising your services sounds like a skill that you work on along with your voice over work. Improving your demo reels regularly, putting up your services on multiple websites, and actively networking to find work and keep existing contacts. Are there any websites you use, techniques you employ or resources you've found that help you manage this or simply advertise your services on? 8. What was your first voice acting/voice over job? Hearing how you started will really help prepare me for what I should expect! (I don't care about the money as much as the experience of doing work that will be used somewhere. Even if it's just an amateur film maker's project.) 9. Have you ever been offered a job you didn't know whether you were ready for at your level? And if so, how do you handle it? Did you inform them but take the job anyway? Did you decline? Did you take the job and practice certain techniques to be more prepared for the job? 10. Lastly, simply put, do you enjoy your voice acting /voice over? The reason I want to do this is because I think it'd have fun. To do it as a job would be a dream of course, but I don't expect it to be easy. None the less, simply doing it as something on the side for a time sounds like a lot of fun, and an accomplishment. I want to put my all into this none the less, but I want to know, is it actually as enjoyable for you as it seemed.

Fivver and Upwork or wait to get experience? by Dwayne_Man9323  •  last post Jun 19th

My sister's been sending me some links and other things to help me along with my journey to becoming a voice actor. While I haven't been able to get classes yet, my sister sent me two recommendations for auditions and voice acting stuff known as Fivver and Upwork. I wanted to ask you guys if it would be worth checking out or not or if anyone has heard of these places. Your feedback is appreciated.

Best Talent Agencies in the DC Area? by poliwhirldude  •  last post Jun 18th

I'm getting close to the point where I want to get an agent, and I'm wondering where I should be looking. Capital Talent Agency seems to be the most popular option around here according to my peers (often reluctantly), but I'm wondering if Liquid Talent Agency in Richmond or some others I'm not aware of would be good places to look for representation as well. I'm primarily a theater actor but I have a few film credits under my belt and would love to expand in that arena too. Thanks!

Base-level actor PR. Like. The next step after social media. Anyone have any insights or recommendations? by WeirdNum3ers  •  last post Jun 18th

Recently got a manager and my prospects looked up. Really want some PR of some kind, but (am in UK btw) really wouldn't know what to do without paying ridiculous money to a big PR house that might not actually 'get me' anyway. Halp & advice dispensed, v appreciated!

I feel like I am terrible and I never get compliments. by No_Satisfaction5038  •  last post Jun 18th

Hello all. I am fairly new to acting and I have sort of been out of practice for a few years. I recently had this audition where I had to read a poem out of a play and I did terrible at it I was all fake sounding and didn't even show emotion right. I used to be fairly good and got a few compliments but now I am losing my touch. To make matters worse I was followed by an excellent nsinger and a really good actress to aced the audition and blew people away. No body commented on me. It means I am bad. I am devastated as I hate the thought of giving up my dream.

Aspiring yet clueless actress by Jessa4724  •  last post Jun 18th

Hello everyone! I have always loved acting but due to being in a very abusive household growing up, I was never allowed to explore or learn about anything liked. I am now moved out but completely clueless on how to start a resume etc with no experience whatsoever. Would anyone be able to give me a few tips? What should I include in auditions, etc. I got a job as a lifeguard on set of a movie in my city, and just being around everything gave me such a rush! I sadly was only there for a few hours and wasn't able to mingle that much with the crew. Thank you so much!! I am planning on getting headshots taken within the next few weeks!

Why you are not getting hired or, my experience hiring a voice actor from Reddit today. by TheJessaChannel  •  last post Jun 18th

Why you are not getting hired or, my experience hiring a voice actor from Reddit today. *** Hey there, I run a channel called The Grand Dames and we are a group of four Grandma Gamers who have monthly tea party livestreams and talk %!&@# about games. Next month, we are coming to Twitch and I need to create an announcement for that. So I went to /r/VoiceActing and /r/recordthis and put a detailed request for what I needed, including a video that said EXACTLY what to do to apply for the job. https://www.reddit.com/r/VoiceActing/comments/o1sag9/paid_voice_actor_needed_to_voice_a_short/ Edit: To clarify, I was paying $30 for about a minute of recording. The first take was 53 seconds and the second take with silence added was 1:07. Fair for $30 in my opinion. I got around 15 applicants who were interested and only THREE, just three, followed the directions to submit their applications. The third one, /u/MickyV123, I hired because he was able to improv to bring the character to life (only one other person did this) and he was able to make the character funny. His sound quality was great as well. We met on Discord, I explained the character of Luigi and he completed the job in less than an hour, did another take with some changes in about 15 minutes and I paid him. He was kind and professional and knew I needed the job done quickly and well. It was a very pleasant experience. But the others? Man. You guys. First many, many of them just messaged me here asking me: * For the email address to send it to (I stated it TWICE in the video) * For a script (I acted out the **entire** part and then asked you to record a few, just a few, similar lines and improv something into it because I wanted a voice ACTOR, not a voice READER) * To tell me you would love to work with me (wonderful, then why not apply and stop wasting my time?) * To tell me you had a demo (and one did not even link to it after telling me that! Plus, I did not want a demo, I wanted to know if you could **do what I needed**) * To let me know you could do it in a few days (I expressly said I need a quick turnaround and I am supposed to wait for your audition for days just to see if you are a good fit? Really?) * To ask me where I lived and tell me where you lived (Just, umm, what??) And here is the kicker. After I replied with a general: > > Hi! Please follow the instructions in the video I put in the post to apply, thank you! No one actually then followed up and one of the applicants argued with me. LOL It is like, do you even want a job? The person who got the job is happily paid and hopefully spending his new found wealth (okay, well it was not that much) at the local pub and I have my voice lines. What I am looking for is someone who is: Professional Kind Quick Can follow directions, especially simple ones And can do the part (sound like the Luigi I am hearing my head)! So yeah, that was my experience hiring from the pool of talent here and maybe one of you could have done the voice even better than the actor I hired (who was wonderful don't get me wrong), **but I will never know because so many of you could not follow instructions**! I am writing this because I thought it would help some of you understand how to up your game and what it is like on this side of the hiring process. TL:DR - Follow Directions. Be quick and professional. Get hired. Get paid. Go drink.

Need advice on how to deal with an actress on set. by TimeDoesNotTell  •  last post Jun 18th

I'm actually a PA on a project right now, but I am working towards being an actress myself. I really love this community, and I would like some advice or reassurance or anything from fellow people in the industry. So there's this one actress who is apparently a little more well-known than any of the other actors on the set. I say this because I don't know if it could have an impact on the problem. Because of the pandemic, part of my job is to take the crew's temperatures every other day (as well as the reoccurring actors) and to go around with hand sanitizer approximately every hour since we're all touching the same stuff. Today I was going to take this person's temperature, and she was outside on the phone. It takes a second or two to get a reading on the forehead thermometer thing, and I walk away as I write it down on my sheet. She knows this as she's seen me do it to countless others on set. I walked up to her, didn't say hi or anything because I noticed she was on the phone, but I figured I'd go ahead and get her temperature when I saw her because she runs around set a lot, and I have other tasks to move on to when I'm done with temperatures. She sees me walk up, and I lift the thermometer but she walks away from me very fast. I'm like okay, that's fine. I know I wasn't trying to snoop, and I'm pretty sure she knew it as well, but perhaps she just wasn't wanting me to be in her space right then? Was it wrong of me to go up to her even though I was just trying to get to my other tasks? I've only gotten her temperature once out of the three or four times I've had to take them, and that was her very first day on set. The other times she wasn't on the phone. But she also refuses the hand sanitizer. The other actors let me take their temperatures (I have done this in front of her), and they also take the offered hand sanitizer. By set protocol, it's actually supposed to be *required* to help prevent any illness among the crew and actors (emphasis on help). Even when she has nothing on her hands, she refuses and straight up ignores me. She's super sweet when I'm not trying to do this part of my job, and I know she isn't allergic to the hand sanitizer because I was actually specifically told who the one crew member was that can't have it due to skin irritation problems. I just don't know what to do. I don't know if I crossed a line somewhere, or if she's just being finicky and whatnot. Have I done something wrong? I'll be honest, I have complained about her to a fellow PA just because of her rude behavior at times (there's this and some other things), but she wasn't around, no one else should have been able to hear us, and I always acknowledged that she was nice but was just acting weird in those times. I only told the PA because I wanted them to know what they might experience when dealing with her. We both do this for the other, so we always know what's going on. I want to reiterate that nothing I ever said about her was inherently bad. Am I just worrying for no reason?

What Should an Actor/Host Do During Their Free Time? by FurmidableCat  •  last post Jun 18th

We all had a lot of time off with the pandemic and I am still looking for things to do... I have already taken a lot of classes, watched a lot of series/films, created my own podcasts and vlogs, made like five different demos, etc but I am looking for something that will bring something more beneficial for my career. I keep looking for voice acting jobs online (and got a couple of them), applying for roles or hosting jobs anytime I have the opportunity, being active on social media, etc. But I am looking for a project that would really bring my career to the next level. If possible a professional project that would bring me money and something nice to add to my resume, maybe a new skill to work on that has something to do with acting, something like that... I am tired of doing projects on my own that cost me money and that only a few people ever sees... Any idea? What do actors/hosts do in their free time?

Newer Actor: What happens after a callback? by thatactressspams  •  last post Jun 17th

I just had a really exciting callback today and I wad wondering if anyone could give me some insight on the process that comes after having a call back. Do the CDs watch my initial audition and this new callback together to decide or is it all based on my later performance? Also, if I were to be approached to move forward in the process, what would the next steps be?

[Paid] Voice actor needed to voice a short announcement that The Grand Dames are coming to Twitch. Need done very soon! $30 PayPal by TheJessaChannel  •  last post Jun 17th

[Paid] MALE Voice actor needed to voice a short announcement that The Grand Dames are coming to Twitch. Need done very soon! $30 PayPal I recorded a video on the details of the job and how to submit your audition. It's pretty simple, but I do want someone who can make the voice sound similar to what I did in the video and who can make the character come alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19awYwMAveg The voice needed is somewhat bronx/Italian? It will be for a an animated character. The announcement is very short, a minute or two. I do need this done quickly and will give priority to someone who can do a quick turnaround! Thanks!

Headshot-Age Range-Character Type Feedback by AutoModerator  •  last post Jun 17th

Use this thread to post your headshots for feedback, get info on your age range/type, find good headshot photographers, ask any questions you may have about headshots. If you are posting a DIY headshot for feedback, and not just a snapshot in order to get feedback on your age range/type/etc, it is advised that you do at least some basic research on what actor headshots look like--composition, framing, lighting. You will find a Google Image search for "actor headshots" to be very helpful for this. Non-professional shots are fine for age/typecasting; please keep in mind that one picture is a difficult way to go about this. Video of you moving and speaking would be ideal, but understandably more difficult to post. For what it's worth, the branding workshop at SAG-AFTRA recommends a five-year age range. That's inclusive, so for example 19-23, 25-29, 34-38, etc.

Searching For Actors/Actresses! by OracleVex4545  •  last post Jun 17th

Me and my team are currently searching for male and female voice actors/actresses. We are developing a concept for a sci fi related series. Need more support. And we are willing to compensate if necessary. Pls DM me if interested or for more info. Thank You! 70$/ per line. will increase pay according to certain lines.

NYC acting communities by Ill-Nefariousness0  •  last post Jun 17th

Hi! The acting collectives, studios, etc. that I have been finding in NYC are pretty expensive (doing Esper now and love studying). Can you all recommend some cheaper classes/studios/communities in NYC where I can study, find community with other actors, make work here. I just moved here, so in person would be so great. Bonus points if it is a good space for POC or a POC or black space. Thanks!