NARRATION NUTS & BOLTS

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Master three performance components to create the world of a narrative script. Find the tone to captivate the listener, harness your pace to reveal the message, and maintain consistency to keep them engaged.

CHARACTERS IN ACTION

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performance process. You'll develop dimensionality, functionality, and dynamic physicality as you inhabit a fun and out-of-this-world character throughout this 12-hour class. Set your universal translators to Marcopian and get ready for some action!

CHARACTER STYLES

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This technical class compares video games, cartoons, and toys and prepares you for the performance and vocal requirements for each style. You'll explore parsing and concatenation, audition prep, and how various genres affect the style.

CHARACTER PLAYBOOK

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Build your book of character voices through the use of creative exercises, acting basics, and impulse. Your unique playbook might include real and exaggerated voices, heroes and villains, celebrity mash-ups, and archetypes from various genres.

SPONTANEITY In Person Class

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Confidence and taking chances are needed at auditions and jobs. Explore how being in the moment helps you stay fresh and elevates your performance. You’ll improvise sections of the script, increase listening and response times, and trust your instincts.

COMMERCIAL STYLES

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This class helps you identify and deliver different styles of commercial VO: Taglines, Retail, Spokesperson, Real Person and more. You’ll learn how to determine the style and how to adjust your timing, rhythm, and energy to match the script.

BREAKING IT DOWN IN PERSON CLASSES

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Assess commercial copy at a glance by breaking down the script into common copywriting themes, rules you should recognize, and writing hints that reveal the unique message every commercial script contains. Once you develop the technical muscularity required by commercial copy, you'll feel confident enough to tackle any VO script.

LIFE BETWEEN THE LINES

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To create believable, real-life scenarios, actors must convey life between the lines of the script. Thoughts, reactions, and emotions are all true to human behavior, so bringing these same tendencies to voice over is essential. Explore actions, intentions, meaning, and subtext to begin truthfully breathing life into your lines.

LEVEL UP: DRAMATIC ACTING (ADV.)

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It's easy to make a funny face, posture, or voice, but when it comes time to dig deep and express the intense grief, rage, or high stakes of life and death, you have to have a solid acting foundation. Today's AAA games require a realistic, vulnerable portrayal of character. In this advanced acting class, you'll […]

DROP-IN IMPROV In Person

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Free your pursuit for perfection while you play, laugh and bond with a group of your fellow students. We’ll amuse ourselves with ensemble games, space object play, scene work, and failing joyfully.  Rookies and pros welcome. Students who are new to Voice One or have never attended any of our classes are also welcome! Cost: […]