Voice Over Is REALLY Hard. Until It Isn’t.

Hey there, it’s David H Lawrence to 17th. And today I want to talk to you about something that.
He’s kind of like a big elephant in the room and people want to get into a business like ours performance voice over on
camera.
because
Everybody wants to sell you.
the
Solution the secret the ability to crack the code to make it easy.
To do what we do.
And the truth of the matter is that voice over in particular on camera any type of production any time of performance?
That somebody else has the ability to say. Yes, we want you or I’m really sorry, but we went in a different direction.
It’s hard.
It’s really really hard my friend Michael Koster off.
Has a package called audition psych 101.
And he’s right up front with it, you know of anybody tries to tell you that they can show you how to get booked.
You should run from them.
You should just like leave skid marks II say that to people that ask me, you know, people will come to me in those hate I
want to do voiceover, but I’m just wondering how long it’ll take me to make my money back on the classes.
I don’t know or how quickly will I book how quickly will this is a big one how quickly can I make a living from?
I’m not sure you can make a living from it. And if anybody tells you they can help you make a living from it absolutely
guaranteed take the guarantee and when they don’t take the money back, I mean it just
Don’t waste your time trying to figure that out because there were so many things that are beyond your control.
So having said that.
Voiceover is really hard.
On camera is really hard.
until one day
It isn’t.
It just all of a sudden starts to click.
And there are really three different things that pay attention to that that that helps you informed that.
The first one by far is great training.
and the energy to
Take that training and put it to good use, you know, it’s not just to get great training get great classes and all that
people attend my classes all the time and I see them.
kind of going through the motions and I try to help them and I say look you got to
Go to apply this stuff, right?
Some people just don’t have the energy.
And who knows why that is it could be that they start off with all the best intentions.
But somewhere down the line to go. Wow, this is really a lot more than I get off a lot more than I could chew.
So the idea of getting great training and implementing it.
You know revolves around this having the energy to do so, that’s one thing.
the other thing is
persistence
I can’t tell you how many times people have asked me.
How do you handle the rejection of hearing no?
all the time
And I do I hear no all the time people get this impression that when you’re successful you work all the time.
I hear know far more often than I hear. Yes, or I hear nothing.
Far more often than I hear. Yes, but you have to have that persistence.
And know that if you just keep your nose to the grindstone.
Things will start to break for you.
And that persistence May last for years?
weeks months
Quarters years. I mean Samuel Jackson was really famous for saying.
David Letterman said wow, you’re just like an overnight success and he goes it took me fifteen years to be an overnight
success.
And it’s true. He worked in the business for a long time before anybody noticed it.
And then the third thing that I think is really important is something that is kind of the big elephant in the room.
* 2
And that is Talent.
You can want to do this all you want but if there isn’t.
Some innate Talent there.
You can’t if you can’t develop the talent cuz some people are born with it. Some people aren’t they develop it over time?
You have to have the talent.
and you know as well as I do there people walking around thinking that they’re talented and they aren’t and it’s hard to
talk about that because
You don’t want to be the Debbie Downer or the guy that goes yeah, you know what you’re just not talented enough.
and
Usually the people that watch these videos are far enough along in their Journey that they know that they have talent.
They know they can develop more Talent.
And it’s a it’s a pain right? But if you don’t have that, well, it makes Bo and
on camera performance
Stick to being really hard.
But then what happens one day is that?
All of the things that you’ve been practicing and putting into play the energy the training the persistence the
development of the talent.
It starts to click. I mean when you think about the different categories of voice over there just really difficult to get
into Network animated shows.
high-end looping on feature films and and network television
I do you know how
On camera performance drama-comedy whatever it is.
These are difficult things to get into until one day.
they’re not so hard because
You crack one.
You know we talked about the rules being changing in the end. You said yourself while just one day I want to just just
give me a small background roll. I just want to be on camera is going to be on Saturday want to see what happened then
give me a give me a topic show guests. Give me you know, in voice-over you give me one network commercial. Give me one,
you know audiobook. That’s like a big publisher you get to the point where it happens.
You’re not quite sure how it happens, but it happens and then you realize oh, it was really hard.
Up until then.
And once you look back on how you did it, you realize all of those things were in play.
the persistence the energy
the training
and the development of that Talent
So just know.
If you’re committed to this.
And for some of you you can’t help yourselves, you’re committed. What do you want to be or not?
If you’re committed to this and you put those things into play.
voiceover on Chandler performance
They’re all going to be possible.
And they’re going to be possible for you.
Not just the person you look at in God they do that.
That’s how they did it.
That’s really how they did it.
If you’re watching this the first day it’s being released. I’m going to be training people on how to do audio books.
Give me a sex master class for this particular year.
And I’m really excited about that. So I’m going to say about I don’t want to take these videos and turn them into sales
pitches cuz they’re not.
these are just ways that I’ve done some things that
Other people would like to do.
And I want to share that with you and we’re doing one a day for the whole year. It’s been almost up to the first 30 days
crazy.
I want to know from you.
What broke the Log Jam?
If it has been broken already for you.
What was it that you realize that made this all easier a little bit more accessible a little bit more fun.
Not so frustrating and for those of you that haven’t yet that point yet.
What do you think is your biggest hurdle? Do you think is your biggest?
I can’t do this.
Cuz I’m going to talk about those things coming up.
You things that you put a name to?
That are stopping you from moving forward.
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they do around here. I’m David H Lawrence the 17th. I thank you so much for watching.
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