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Sound Design Seminar
ESSENCE OF VOICE ACTING Hosted by Author/SoundDesigner David SonnenscheinVoiceCasting/VOplanet
Agent Donna Summers
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Seminar
1: Freeing the Voice Through
Character Study
July 7, 9-11am PST live with PHIL
PROCTOR (Firesign Theatre)
Seminar
2: Perfecting Dialects and Accents
July 8, 6-8PM PST live with ELIZA JANE SCHNEIDER (South Park)
VO
Artists / Casting Directors / Sonic Storytellers
LEARN
TO CONVEY MORE CHARACTER AND EMOTION WITH VOICE
AND
GET LIVE PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK ON YOUR WORK!
In this continuing webinar series brought conveniently to your own home/studio through the internet, you will be able to interact live with two of the great voice geniuses in the world, Phil Proctor and Eliza Jane Schneider.
Seminar
1: Freeing the Voice Through
Character Study
Guest
Speaker Phil Proctor of Firesign Theatre and VO fame reveals how he
approaches character development using improv and physicality.
He will also discuss the changes necessary to become a working voice
actor today as compared to what worked in the VO field 20, or even 10 years ago.
Hosts David Sonnenschein and Donna Summers contribute with
psychoacoustic theory behind listening and vocal qualities, and how this affects
commercial VO work today. We’ll answer questions on what makes an audition
read or a demo stand out, and why having an online agent is important.
Seminar
2: Perfecting Dialects and Accents
Master
Teacher and Dialect Expert Eliza Jane Schneider gives you tools about the
skills and techniques to eliminate or neutralize your accent. David
Sonnenschein explores the magic space between the words and production
techniques to make your VO demo and audition stand out from the rest. Donna
Summers reveals how to use your story and the copy “story” to develop an
arsenal of voice types for commercial and theatrical work, and how to use these
tools in the audition environment. We
will also discuss the tools of a well-rounded VO talent.
We’ll
listen to your voice recordings and design to help you land the job!
In
the second half of each unique 2-hour seminar, we will play,
analyze and discuss pre-selected demos/clips
from submissions by the participants. We can only accept a
limited number of submissions, so get them in early for acceptance (48 hours
prior to seminar start is the latest we can receive them).If you have something
ready or a work-in-progress (max. 1 min.), send info on yourself, your goals,
the genre, length and what particular area you’d like to discuss, to dsonn22@gmail.com.
SEMINAR 1: Guest Phil Proctor, Wednesday, July 7, 9-11 am PST - $60 SIGN UP HERE
SEMINAR 2: Guest Eliza Jane Schneider, Thursday, July 8, 6-8 pm PST - $60 SIGN UP HERE
BOTH SEMINARS - $100 ($20 off) SIGN UP HERE
(IMPORTANT: enter discount code 100707f and we will send you registration info for both seminars.)
SPECIAL OFFER: Enroll as a member of VOPlanet and get your choice of one of the seminars for FREE and the second for $10 off ($50). Find out more about VOPlanet benefits and SIGN UP HERE.
PRESENTERS
Phil Proctor’s musical and linguistic talents have made him
one of today’s most sought-after voice artists: ‘Howard’ in Rugrats,
the ‘Drunken French Monkey’ in the Dr.
Doolittle movies, and characters in Finding Nemo, Monsters,
Inc., The Princess and the Frog
and interactive games. He was cited as Best Actor by the LA Free Press,
won a Theatre World Award, LA Weekly and Drama Critics’ awards with the
Antaeus company, three Daytime Emmys and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
for Rugrats, and three Grammy nominations with the Firesign Theatre, one of
whose recordings was inducted into the Library of Congress.
Eliza
Jane Schneider is a singer,
fiddler, author, actress, voice artist, dialectologist, composer, oral historian
and playwright. You may be familiar with her work as most of the female voices
on Comedy Central's animated hit South Park.
Her diverse background also includes starring roles in two CBS Saturday
Morning live action television series, including the Emmy-Award winning Beakman's
World as "Liza."
Touted as Hollywood's premiere professional dialect expert in both voice
acting and coaching, she teaches Dialects and Accent Reduction at numerous
Universities, Theater Centers, AFTRA and SAG.
David
Sonnenschein,
MFA USC Cinema/TV, author, sound designer, film director, musician, and
neuroscientist, teaches Sound Design in film schools throughout Europe, the
U.S., Asia and South America, and is now offering the Sound Design Seminar
series for all who have online access. David is the author of “Sound Design:
The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema” Amazon
book link, “A must-read!” - Pro Sound Magazine.
Rated 5 stars on Amazon.
Donna Summers, agent and voiceover talent casting expert for 31 years, represents some of the most well known clients in the world. Through her two companies, VoiceCasting and VOplanet, she has recently booked talent with Hasbro, U.S Army, Nutri-Systems, Lucasarts, EA Games, NFL, Sony and Coca-Cola. On the cutting edge of the voice talent industry, she has developed and initiated a new approach to online voice casting by becoming one of the first professionally established talent agencies to offer pre-qualified voice talent, casting services, and custom auditions and booking services to clients globally through the use of the Internet. Donna is the founder and host facilitator of Essence of Voice Acting Seminars.
Essence
of Voice Acting is
seminar series focusing on specific aspects of the voice and how to maximize its
creative and professional potential. Stay tuned for announcements on upcoming
topics and dates!
Sound Design Seminar online interactive series is directed by David Sonnenschein and covers all creative aspects of sound in audiovisual media, including film, tv, radio, interactive and mobile. Visit SonicStrategies.com/SDSeminar100707.htm.
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