Hello lovelies, I've been mulling this over in my head and sniffing around the google machine to try and answer this, but I'd appreciate some community feedback. AS a voice ator, what is the ideal length of a showreel, the ideal content, and how many showreels should one have? I personally feel that...
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Thanks very much David, I'll definitely be in touch!
Good stuff! I am starting into voice over work this week and these tips are most appreciated :)
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YES!!
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personally, I wouldn't go over three minutes, and one minute should do for character voices. think of what you would want. you're getting 100s of submissions a day, how long do you want to listen to e...
Expand commentpersonally, I wouldn't go over three minutes, and one minute should do for character voices. think of what you would want. you're getting 100s of submissions a day, how long do you want to listen to each one? it depends on the number of voices you can do. if you're another Mel Blanc, you can go longer, though you could probably get enough voices in a minute to get the idea across. so really, a minute seems plenty to me. you should have a link to more, if you can't fit what you want into a minute or two. a website with plenty of samples of varied voices and styles (commercials, characters, and narrative, logo drops) would be great. start and end with your best stuff, and leave them wanting more. you don't have to have the full commercial on the demo. just a clip of each commercial style is enough to let them know what you can do. as far as dividing into categories, I think you should only divide into what you want to do, and what you're good at. the above parenthesized list is a good start. you can categorize by type of job, but some of them have cross over. so think in terms of which types of jobs are similar and lump them together. listen to other people's reels. go online and see what others are doing. you can get a feel for what you like, and what you'd want to receive by figuring out which ones you'd hire and why. so go at it like you're the buyer in search of the perfect voice. only put your best stuff in your demo. if you're not good a logo drops, don't add that category. my best advice is, don't overthink it. just do it. the best VO reel is the one you do and send out. the one you never do because you're sweating over perfection is not going to do you any good. the more you do it, the better you'll be at it. so make a reel. listen to it. imagine someone just sent it to you. would you hire them? if not, do it again. if so, send it out.
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Good advice Joe. I think I'll take it for myself! Need to get my video demo updated... Love "the best is the reel you do and send out."