Classes

Bring out the Betty Rubble and Maximus Prime in you.
One of the most difficult categories of VO to crack, it all starts with world-class techniques for voicing videogames, animation and anime production online and broadcast on TV and cable.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, the secrets behind bringing to life characters for cartoons, video games, animated online series and more. Secrets revealed:

- the hidden opportunities in the tightest community of voice actors
- avoiding cliches and voicing memorable characters
- working in an ensemble, and creating your own family of characters
- using your heritage to create your archetypes
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and animation VO copy. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Acquire the extraordinary skill of directing yourself in auditions.
The days of traveling to cattle calls for VO auditions are few and far between, leaving us all at home, by ourselves, to submit auditions and perform work in isolation and solitude. Learn the essential skill of self-direction, the newest and most important skill the VO actor needs in the digital age.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, the art of self direction, including high quality, efficient auditioning and performance techniques. Secrets revealed:

- managing expectations of perfection
- how to match that perfect read with what you actually say
- when good enough is good enough
- how to avoid audition fatigue
- auditioning and moving on: grabbing the low hanging VO fruit
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this BYOC class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and generic VO copy, and they can bring their own brief copy to work on. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Become agile with the markets you reach, tradition and brand spanking new.
Who would have thought that IVR, or apps, or digital talking outdoor signage, or e-books would all be vibrant markets in which to sell your VO skills? Or that any one of those might end up being the largest category of income for many VO artists? Learn how in this vital 2 hour class.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to identify, find and exploit an amazing range of markets, old and new, for your VO skills, as well has how to keep your periscope up for new markets as they emerge. Secrets revealed:

- the usual suspects: radio, television and other traditional markets
- the unusual suspects: digital products, IVR, training, toys, GPS devices and more
- how to target a demo specifically to a particular market, for little or no cost
- pricing individual and package rates for the strangest of markets
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this BYOC class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and generic VO copy, and they can bring their own brief copy to work on. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Discover high quality home gear that’s inexpensive and portable.
It used to be that going to your VO agent’s office or to a studio somewhere in the city to audition for a VO job was an almost daily event. Not anymore: to be a successful VO artist, you must have excellent home and portable VO equipment. The good news? It can cost you less than $100 to get all you need.

What skills you’ll get:
In this VO2GoGO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to select, install and use portable, inexpensive home VO equipment. Secrets revealed:

- types of studio equipment, and what you really need to succeed
- why you don’t need to soundproof a room
- the trick for making your hotel room absolutely quiet
- the amazing audition app you might already be carrying in your pocket
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this BYOC class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and generic VO copy, and they can bring their own brief copy to work on. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Learn how to mine the Internet for Digital VO profits.
The changing landscape of voiceover work has been affected deeply by the advent of the Internet. Not only has the Net changed how we market ourselves and acquire auditions and work, it has also spawned new types of voiceover product with performance requirements unique to the digital world.

What skills you’ll get:
In this VO2GoGO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to market yourself to digital voiceover clients, technical information needed to work with digital clients and more. Secrets revealed:
- reading the net for work, not just auditions
- how to create your own digital VO products and sell them online
- working proactively to let prospective clients know you’re available
- pricing and client management in the new digital workspace
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this BYOC class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and generic VO copy, and they can bring their own brief copy to work on. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

On radio and television, sell products and services for fun and profit.
The most common category of work, commercial copy occupies a special place in the rainbow of work you will encounter in your voiceover career. Especially here in the US, where broadcast television and radio is almost entirely advertiser supported, honing your performance skills in commercial copy is paramount.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to voice commercial copy, how to create memorable auditions and find commercial work. Secrets revealed:

- the two most important concepts of effective commercial performance
- the most critical words in any copy
- the three ways to end a sentence, and which one will get you booked
- how one man in the 1950s changed the world of commercials forever
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and commercial VO copy. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Why?

There will be no classes on holiday weekends, including national holidays and major conventions in the world of acting and voiceover.

On radio and television, sell products and services for fun and profit.
Continuing on work done in the first of these two classes, diving deeper into the types of commercial reads, the categories of products, the pacing and rhythms of copy, and the benefits advertisers desperately need to communicate to the viewers and listeners of their message, the goal is perfecting your approach to this primary VO category.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to voice commercial copy, how to create memorable auditions and find commercial work. Secrets revealed:

- using pace and pitch to compact verbose copy
- creating intimate, lovely beauty reads for luxury products
- sticking it: dismounting from a spot and making it memorable
- defending the clients’ brand with consistent pace, rhythm and performance
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and commercial VO copy. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Completely master the Voice123.com website, auditions and your Voice123 profile.
Just as with on-camera acting work, online casting sites are becoming more and more important to your VO career, sometimes completely supplanting casting directors, agents, producers, and others that managed the traditional process of casting and producing audio products.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to get work with Voice123.com, the biggest of the casting websites that are changing the very nature of voicework. Secrets revealed:

- registering and creating a killer profile
- how to make their SmartCast system work for you
- how to tag your voice profile to draw voice seekers to you like a magnet
- expanding your demo portfolio to bowl buyers over
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this BYOC class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and generic VO copy, and they can bring their own brief copy to work on. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Acquire the VO skills you need to be the bedrock of documentaries.
Elegantly handling documentary narration is part and parcel of the professional VO artist’s set of tools. Learn the skills you need to master this category of voicework.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, the secrets behind the performance of best-of-breed documentary narration copy. Secrets revealed:

- theatricality and narration performance
- sizing up the audience for your program
- the most important goal of narration and how to achieve it
- how to sell to the narration voiceover marketplace
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and narration VO copy. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Your demo is your first impression. Make it a masterful one.
Commercial demos, IVR demos, narration demos and others are each a calling card that will introduce the buyers of your voice work to your instrument. Your demo should begin with careful planning, and conclude with artful, world class production and distribution to the voice buying community.

What skills you’ll get:
In this VO2GoGO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to prepare for and work with a producer on executing a world class demo. Secrets revealed:

- what demos should and shouldn’t include
- the biggest mistakes some demo producers make
- how to create your demo for an audience of one
- how to leverage home equipment to expand your demo portfolio
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this BYOC class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and generic VO copy, and they can bring their own brief copy to work on. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Voice newscasts and audio periodicals for yourself and for others.
Like commercials, narration and IVR, the category of news and information products have a certain style and performance technique unique to the category. Traditional radio and television outlets have been joined by podcasts, satellite, cable, email blasts and other new connections, giving you an even greater opportunity to audition and land these lucrative jobs.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, what information products entail, how news and other periodic products are performed and how to voice auditions and final product. Secrets revealed:

- how the target audience affects your performance
- classic and new styles of news and information performance
- learning from the giants of newscasting
- pricing and client management in the news and information workspace
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and news/information VO copy. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Discover high quality home gear that’s inexpensive and portable.
It used to be that going to your VO agent’s office or to a studio somewhere in the city to audition for a VO job was an almost daily event. Not anymore: to be a successful VO artist, you must have excellent home and portable VO equipment. The good news? It can cost you less than $100 to get all you need.

What skills you’ll get:
In this VO2GoGO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to select, install and use portable, inexpensive home VO equipment. Secrets revealed:

- types of studio equipment, and what you really need to succeed
- why you don’t need to soundproof a room
- the trick for making your hotel room absolutely quiet
- the amazing audition app you might already be carrying in your pocket
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this BYOC class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and generic VO copy, and they can bring their own brief copy to work on. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Why?
There will be no classes on holiday weekends, including national holidays and major conventions in the world of acting and voiceover.

Make your voice the on-hold voice of choice.
There are over 10 billion phones in the world – one and one-half for every man, woman and child on the planet. 70% are business phones, and all phones have some sort of voice mail or outbound messaging associated with them. In the most profitable category of voicework in David’s portfolio, and the most plentiful of work categories, you’ll find a largely hidden market of work.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to voice IVR and phone prompt copy and find markets where this work is plentiful and profitable. Secrets revealed:

- why this skill is the most lucrative in the 21st century
- the type of voice needed for phone prompt work – it’s not what you think!
- how the marketplace for IVR work has shifted, and how you can take advantage
- why this union-covered work is so lucrative
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and IVR/phone prompt VO copy. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Click, tweet, email, like and link your way to VO success.
While reels, zed cards, cassettes, mailers, business cards and CDs had their day as ways for VO artists to connect with their clients, today’s marketing materials are often not physical at all – but rather ways to connect and market online. As social networks come and go, you’ll be able to master each one as a VO megaphone.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to build your business and master online connective tissue using today’s social networks as digital marketing tools. Secrets revealed:

- why MySpace is over, and so is Twitter and Facebook
- why MySpace, Twitter and Facebook may be back
- how to build a list and market to online customers
- an overview of how to use Voice123, Voices.com and other online audition sites
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this BYOC class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and generic VO copy, and they can bring their own brief copy to work on. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Use that non-acting degree or passion to voice your way to profit.
Separate and apart from traditional documentary narration, there are several major categories of content-specific narration work that centers around large bodies of information: scientific, technical, legal, medical and so on. These narration skills don’t necessarily require a working knowledge of the specialty category in question, but if your personal knowledge extends to that space, you’ll find yourself with yet another way to make a living as a VO performer.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, how to prepare and voice specialty narration copy, how to create an effective demo in this space and find specialty work. Secrets revealed:

- identifying non-traditional marketing areas for voicework
- how your passions can be turned into voice projects
- working in specialty narration even if you’re not a trained expert in the field
- pricing and client management in specialty narration
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and specialty narration VO copy. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Bring out the Betty Rubble and Maximus Prime in you.
One of the most difficult categories of VO to crack, it all starts with world-class techniques for voicing videogames, animation and anime production online and broadcast on TV and cable.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, the secrets behind bringing to life characters for cartoons, video games, animated online series and more. Secrets revealed:

- the hidden opportunities in the tightest community of voice actors
- avoiding cliches and voicing memorable characters
- working in an ensemble, and creating your own family of characters
- using your heritage to create your archetypes
- and more

Copy provided? You bet.
In this class, all students, Auditors and Participants alike, will be provided with lecture notes and animation VO copy. Participants will be directed and recorded; Auditors will observe that process. The recordings will be given to each Participant to use as mini-starter demos (in advance of completed professional demos), showing their mastery of the particular category of voicework performed.

This class will open for registration soon.
Classes open up for registration the week prior to class. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, join VO2GoGo’s SOVO (Secrets of VoiceOver) mailing list. If you’d like to attend this class for free on first-come, first-served basis, become a VO2GoGo Pro member.

Why?
There will be no classes on holiday weekends, including national holidays and major conventions in the world of acting and voiceover.

Hire your inner voice…and entrepeneur.
Why wait for someone else to hire you? You’ve got a voice, and you’re already in charge of You, Inc, so put yourself to work, and collect all the profits. Create your own content, piggy back on events in the news, big movie releases and wake up every morning with money in the bank – from people buying your audio products.

What skills you’ll get:
In this Secrets of VO class, David H. Lawrence XVII teaches you, step-by-step, the secrets behind identifying, creating, marketing, selling and fulfilling audio content on the web. Secrets revealed:

- watching production calendars for potential tie-ins
- the quickest way to create audio products
- identifying and marketing to potential buyers over the web
- how to build a library of long-tail product that sells forever
- and more