Hey gang! Got a VO related question? Need a demo critiqued?? Just need an ear to eh-buh-beh-eh-bend? Ask away!!! Glad to help out!
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I have done e-learning courses for an Indian company for several years, and although they stress me out sometimes, they always pay me. Now I've been contacted by another Indian company called Cognizant Solutions, and I don't want to commit to anything without first checking them out.
If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it!
Let me start with, you are pretty good!! ;-)
The first demo (imaging) is nice. You don't come in until after almost 5 seconds. In this day and age when most listeners have little to no attention span, you rarely get much more than a 4-10 second listen/opportunity to "wow" em. You take up half of that with production. Start your reads at the top.
The other demo wants to be commercial, but it's too "radio" sounding. Too announcery. You need a more mainstream/conversational commercial demo. Check out this page:
http://www.voicebank.net/app/promoList.do?type=id
Listen to demos from some of the top VO actors from SBV, CESD, TGMD, WME, AAA, Atlas, etc. You'll get a good idea of what's "in" when it comes to commercial demos. You need to lose that imaging feel with yours. The "whooshes" and imaging type production need to go. You also need more variety in your reads. You have the same "announcer" sound from spot to spot. At the end of the demo I have no idea who Ernie is. I hear Ernie can read announcer/radio copy, but you need to present a better variety of radio and especially TV commercial reads.
Hope this helps!
Bob
-ernie
;-)