DAY ONE - ORIENTATION & Training

Let’s Talk Tech + PERGE Intro Seminars

Breaking down your digital audio workspace, and your physical audio workspace

• What to buy, what NOT to buy, and where to set it up 
• Setting up your DAW, and connecting your interface 
• Gauging your noise floor - is your space quiet enough? 
• Basic editing tips and tricks to learn on your DAW 
• Exporting/Bouncing 
• And more…

PERGE is an acting technique developed by Brad Milne that shows you how to use the power of your thoughts to make your strongest choices, get out of your head, and ignite your performance. By answering five key questions in areas students will learn to create a specific and dimensional point of view for their characters.

Premise Emotion Relationship Goals Environment

Read. Think. Choose. Act.

What voice actors need to be building on as well as standard acting techniques

• • Mic Etiquette, and the proximity effect
  • Putting the character in the body within the space
  • Visualization techniques; the importance of your invisible scene + scene partner(s)
  • Q+A to end the night

Character Development Exercise Session

We’ll start with a conversation on the actor’s character building process and running through useful vocal warmups, before moving into working one on one with students to apply these techniques to animation sides.

Lunch Break

DAY ONe PM - TRAINING

Commercial Development Exercise Session

We will spend the first part of the lesson with a crash course in breaking down commercial copy, and talking about the importance of being able to work in the commercial field as well as fields such as animated/videogame/dubbing/audiobook genres - which are generally regarded as the more artistic fields. 

The second part of this lesson will be running through commercial copy and applying techniques.

DAY Two AM - TRAINING DAY 2

Mock Auditioning Exercises

Students will have the chance to go through the motions of an actual voice over audition from home in both commercial and animation genres. 

Commercial Mock-Audition - Students receive the same copy, and by the end we decide who “books it”. 

Animation Mock-Audition - Students receive a character to audition for, selected specifically for them and their strengths. As in the real world, everyone is contacted privately (over zoom) if they’ve gotten a “callback”. 

Students will have a chance to get redirects in the room and be pushed to take feedback and make quick adjustments live. This will give them an accurate view of how quickly auditions move when you are in the room where it happens!

DAY two PM - TRAINING DAY 2

Right Steps, Right Order Seminar

It is really easy for students to get excited about this career - believe us, we know! That being said, we want to make sure you’re not getting too ahead of yourselves. The work that you showcase represents who you are as a voice actor. Agents, casting directors, and potential clients need to see the best of you, so we’ll talk about how to get there. 

We’ll cover things like: 

• Debunking Common Voiceover Myths and Misinformation
• Vocal Health + Exercises to add to your ‘tool box’ 
• Finding your sound + specialties
• When you’re ready to think about demos
• Networking + CRM’s
• Finding work - where to find it and how to reach out
• What a submission package with an agent looks like and what you need to build one
• Union vs. Non-Union
• Opening the floor to final questions + takeaways

Course Materials Included:

• Exercise Reading 1 - Booth Equipment Study
• Exercise Reading 2 - Voiceover Genre Study
• Master VO Term Sheet
• References: Great Minds in VO (Engineers, Coaches, Voice Actors, Podcasts, etc.)
• Further Booth Examples
• Rate Setting Guides
• Character Placement Study