The course will take place at the Mayflower Recording Studios in Central London

Actors Studio is delighted to announce a fresh and dynamic course for Actors wanting to learn the skills required for voice over work. The course will culminate in recording  voice reel clips suitable for Spotlight, Casting Call Pro, or marketing yourself to Voice Over Agents.

The course will be led by Lionel Strutt who has worked as an ADR Coordinator / Sound Recordist since 1964.  Lionel's very impressive credits include sound on 'The Last King of Scotland', 'Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade', 'Jaws', 'Superman', 'Star Wars', and 'The Shining' to name but a few.

The course will run over 2 Sunday afternoons and in the first session Lionel will be working on the various skills required for ADR, V/O, Commercials, and Documentaries'. The 2nd session will be used for recording a Voice
reel made up of 4 different samples. The samples will then be burned to disc.

Session 1:

• Demo of microphones and their uses

• How location sound is recorded

• Microphone positions and lecterns

• Show the different cueing methods

• Voice Over record to get used to the system

• Basics of ADR

• Crowd session

• Individual ADR Session

Session 2:

• Voice record for Narration/Audio Book

• Voice record for Documentary

• Voice record for Radio Spot

• Voice record for Commercial

Course dates:

Session 1: Sunday 28th March 2010  2.00pm-6.00pm.  Session 2: Sunday 4th April 2010 2.00pm-6.00pm

Cost:

£225

"We use Voice overs in the media probably more than you have first noticed, but they are all recorded in a very similar way.

Commercials for example use the voice as the sales pitch for a product and are mixed loud to punch through the TV to grab as much attention as they can.

In documentary's, the voice over is helping to tell the story that the images cannot do alone so guide us though topics and focus our attention toward specific types of interest. These are generally a lot more natural in their tone and often use warm familiar voices we are comfortable listening to.

On TV shows, Drama/Sitcoms for example, the voice over is often recorded with the main character of the show as if a thought was in their head and they are welcoming you, the viewer, to see their exciting life or enjoy their comedy adventures etc. Imagine ‘Sex in the City' and how Carrie opens the show with some collective thoughts, we enjoy the episode then she closes the show with a thoughtful conclusion or question about t her life and what we have just seen."

Tom Deane – Sound Engineer – Mayflower Recording Studios