More Than Just a Voice: The REAL Secret to Voiceover Success

by Dave Courvoisier

Overview

"Voice-Acting: the 2nd Highest-Paying Freelance Job By the Hour." This statement is from businessinsider.com... It's just talking, right? Actually, you need: "More Than Just a Voice: The REAL Secret to Voiceover Success." After 2,500 blog articles, friends began urging Dave to publish a collection of his best blogs. :More Than Just a Voice" is that book. For those seeking answers about getting into the business, to others who needed a refresher on the latest techniques and trends, this book is the answer. It's also full of common sense advice in the face of rumors to the effect that voice-acting is a license to print money.

Sure, you have to be a good speaker, but that's less than half the battle. Today's voice talent is equally adept at audio engineering, marketing, social media, accounting, and writing. This book fills in the blanks to get you there. Each chapter tackles a topic that shapes you into a well-rounded freelance voice over talent...more than just a voice. Voice Actors are paid to be the voice on documentaries, corporate videos, audiobooks, explainer videos, medical/technical narrations, and TV promos, and they got there by being smart about their freelance business.

"I have recommended Dave's blog to so many voice-actors over the years and now all that information is organized in one publication, completely updated and categorized. Congrats Dave for this excellent book, a true resource for all things VO." ~ Joe Cipriano, Network Promo Voice for FOX, CBS, ABC

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046074406
Publisher:	Dave Courvoisier
Publication date:	07/27/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dave Courvoisier, author of More Than Just a Voice: The REAL Secret to Voiceover Success, is a highly successful long-time TV news anchor in one of America's most high-profile cities (Las Vegas). But he is also a busy voice-actor! He speaks and writes prodigiously for the voice-acting community, blogging five days a week for "Voice Acting in Vegas," the popular blog on his Courvo.com website. From this wealth of material springs More Than Just a Voice, released July 22, 2014, to wonderful reviews. The book has already been cited as a "road map" of information and "survival guide" for voice over actors. He holds strong expertise in the fields of Social Media networking and trending technology, and is hard at work writing new books focused on these areas.

Dave is the nightly news anchor at the CBS-affiliated TV station in Las Vegas, NV: KLAS-TV, anchoring weeknights at 5, 6, and 11pm. Before that, he anchored at the NBC station, bringing to 25 years his total time on the air in Las Vegas. He has garnered numerous local, state, regional and national awards for work with disadvantaged children through his weekly profile of adoptable children on the "Wednesday's Child" program. Dave has also won several Television Arts and Academy awards (Emmys), and serves on the board of BoysTown NV.

In the last decade, as freelance entrepreneur, he launched into the arena of voice-acting with his own voice-acting business, recording for global clients in his private, professionally-equipped studio. As well as the narration of over 40 audiobook titles to his credit, he has a wealth of experience in medical/technical narrations, explainer videos, radio and TV commercials, as well as documentaries and corporate training videos.

Dave quickly gravitated to the promise of Social Media for his marketing needs, and hosts a number of online VO community groups and forums on the most popular social media networks. He has given numerous presentations on the subject of social media and voice-acting at several Voice Over conferences and unconferences, as well as webinars, seminars, and industry panels. He serves as the Executive Vice President of World-Voices Organization, a voice talent industry trade organization, is a social media coach for Edge Studio, and was named one of the most influential VO bloggers of 2011.
Dave and his wife, Victoria, have been married for 30 years, and have three 20-something daughters, two of whom have graduated from...