COLORS OF YOUR VOICE

Director: Thom Pinto
Length: 10-hour weekend seminar
Skills Focus: Acting; Announcing; Choice-Making; Confidence-Building; Self-Direction

What color is luxury.. or trust... or excitement? The Colors method has helped thousands of actors build a richer, more vibrant voiceover foundation. Thom Pinto, creator of this technique, has developed this entry-level seminar devoted entirely to exploring your full vocal and emotional spectrum. You’ll discover a multitude of interpretations that you never before considered – or even realized you were capable of delivering. Please note that this course is a prerequisite for enrollment in any other class taught by Thom Pinto.

FANTASY CAMP

Director: Lisa Baney, Frank Coppola, Samantha Paris, Thom Pinto
Length: 28-hour four-day workshop
Skills Focus: Acting; Announcing; Believability; Character Development; Choice-Making; Confidence-Building; Critical Listening; Mic Technique; Script Analysis; Setting the Scene; Taking Direction

It’s like summer camp, but with mics! If you’ve ever fantasized about immersing yourself in voiceover—here’s your chance. For four days straight, you’ll do nothing but concentrate on perfecting your skills and thus boost your learning curve. Under the guidance of some of the most knowledgeable coaches in the voiceover business, you’ll strengthen your acting chops, hone your characters and sharpen your audio book and narration technique. (If you’d like more detailed information on the course content or schedule, please contact Voicetrax.).

FOUNDER'S WORKSHOP

Director: Samantha Paris
Length: 14-hour four-week workshop or 10-hour weekend seminar
Skills Focus: Acting; Announcing; Character Development; Confidence-Building; Dialogues; Script Analysis; Self-Direction; Taking Direction

This workshop is geared toward Intermediate-level students who are seriously committed to improving their voiceover skills, and moving up to a higher, more competitive level. During this practical-application workshop, you’ll be challenged to take everything you’ve learned from your previous classes and successfully apply these techniques consistently to a wide variety of copy – radio, TV, characters, and more.

INTERMEDIATE STYLIZED VOICE ACTOR

Director: Thom Pinto
Length: 12-hour four-week workshop
Skills Focus: Announcing; Choice-Making; Mic Technique; Script Analysis; Self-Direction

Ad agencies spend millions to achieve a specific look for their TV commercials, so the voiceover style needs to be “specific,” too, complementing the carefully crafted visual mood, rhythm and energy of the spot. This information-packed four-week workshop is designed to help you unravel the mysteries of script interpretation and style selection for TV voiceovers, so that you’ll be better prepared to meet the challenges presented when auditioning for these highly lucrative ads.

IT’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Director: Sirenetta Leoni
Length: 10-hour weekend seminar
Skills Focus: Acting; Believability; Choice-Making; Confidence-Building; Critical Listening; Dialogues; Self-Direction; Spontaneity

The focus is on “playing the scene.” Through a variety of fun and challenging individual and group exercises, you’ll discover how to make appropriate, specific, creative choices that result in more believable, engaging performances, and about the pivotal role that learning to trust both your choices and instincts plays in bringing scripts to life.

NOTHING BUT DIALOGUES

Director: Al Bedrosian
Length: 10-hour weekend seminar
Skills Focus: Acting; Believability; Character Development; Choice-
Making; Comedic Timing; Critical Listening; Dialogues; Mic Technique; Script Analysis; Setting the Scene; Spontaneity; Taking Direction

In this seminar, you’ll explore the world of commercial dialogues. Through improv and acting exercises, and use of creative mic techniques, you’ll learn to “set the scene” and render your group reads more real and believable. You’ll discover that many of the lessons learned from this class apply to other areas of voiceover, including games, animation... even monologues.

SIMPLY ACTING II

Director: Frank Coppola
Length: 10-hour weekend seminar
Skills Focus: Acting; Believability; Choice-Making; Confidence-Building; Taking Direction

You’ll continue to work on integrating the basics that you learned from Simply Acting into your skill set so that they become second nature. You’ll also explore techniques to free up your imagination, and learn how to take direction from agency producers, directors, agents and casting directors, so that you’ll be able to clearly understand what they want and adjust your performance accordingly.

THE VOICEOVER 4-1-1/WORKOUT

Director: SF Agent
Length: 10-hour weekend seminar
Skills Focus: Believability; Choice-Making; Confidence-Building;
Self-Marketing; Taking Direction; Taking Responsibility

One half of this intensive workout with one of San Francisco’s top talent agents will consist of industry insights, advice and “how to’s.” Topics such as professionalism, attitude, marketing, goals, “do’s” and “don’ts” will be discussed. The second part will be a non-stop audition lab where you’ll turn over one script after another, and get the same type of direction and feedback that you’d receive if you were actually auditioning at a talent agency.

VOICEOVER BUILDING BLOCKS

Director: Thom Pinto
Length: 12-hour four-week workshop
Skills Focus: Acting; Believability; Choice-Making; Confidence-Building; Critical Listening; Script Analysis; Self-Direction; Setting the Scene

Radio monologues. Whether straight or funny, it’s a challenge to sustain an audience’s attention for :60. The ability to do so successfully is the test that most voiceover agents use to gauge an actor’s readiness to start auditioning. Over four weeks, Thom will show you how to identify the various styles of copy, then break each script down into its critical components. You’ll learn to establish a strong opening, weave and sustain interest through the treacherous middle, and build to a powerful finish that will resonate with your listeners.

WHAT A CHARACTER!

Director: Brian Sommer
Length: 12-hour four-week workshop
Skills Focus: Acting; Character Development; Choice-Making;
Confidence-Building; Mic Technique; Setting the Scene; Spontaneity

During this workshop, you’ll explore all those characters lurking inside of you. What might your dastardly villain sound like selling soap? You’ll find out as you perform a variety of scripts in character and examine how your characters act in different situations and surroundings. You’ll also gain practical experience sustaining characters — a skill that is absolutely critical when it comes to working in video games and animation.