One thing I've always wanted to do since I was a kid was to get into acting. It's a silly dream of course, it's unconventional, rather quite childish but there are the select few who keep this dream and bloom into something amazing. Over the years I've only gotten more interested in the way movie making works, I got into drawing, but only in the way to get an essential idea out for a movie, I started to watch movies and look for the scripts, and I know just about ABSOLUTELY nothing when it comes to really doing something like film making in ANYWAY - animated or not.
But here's something I wrote in a Skype chat about what it probably takes to being hired as a voice actor.
(Warning, what continues below may be insanely stupid)
I remember when I went to Shadocon at Vic's panel.
One of the guys asked him a question about him auditioning for Funimation and he's like, "I emailed the voice director a couple times and I haven't gotten a response." I forgot most of what Vic says, but the simple reason why is that - at most, you probably need to have more on your resume.
He says he was in High School drama for a number a years, and had a few classes but other than that he didn't really have a good resume on hand.
Now look at AJ Locasio, a break-out voice actor who's history contains of that and being in a HUGE number of roles for some college films which will work on a resume. And he also played an excellent Captain Jack.
But he got his job a little differently, he specifically auditioned for Marty Mcfly in the game and all he did was send in a soundclip. Which, I guess in terms, is a little different than working OFFICIALLY for a VA company.
Which is essentially what Funimation does, they have their own voice actors for their properties.
So, maybe the guy at Shadocon was missing a voice reel or acting reel which by the way, everybody who wants to go into voice acting should have - or something else. And I know I'm sort of talking out of my ass with this, but the most important thing that every voice actor, even the internet voice actors say - it's still acting and its not failed acting, it's an entirely different performance.
You have to be able to emote REALLY well with your voice rather than your face.
More talking out of my ass: When I was watching the Social Network, I LOVED the acting - it was mainly facial expressions though - you had the way Jessie Eisenburg acted. Most people didn't like his method, sounding like a robot. I thought that was the point, it made him look more like he was trying to build a fort around him by sounding like an asshhole. But his facial expressions, very subtle at heart, were key to each of the performance
It wasn't just that, the way he moved, the body language - all excellently acted.
Then we have Andrew Garfield, who played Edguardo was really one of my favorites in the movie. Same deal, except the Andrew got to be a LOT more emotional with his role and handled it REALLY WELL.
But I'm not mentioning something too by the way, all of that, is due to GREAT direction but my main praise goes to the script, I read the script and it explains the scenes so perfectly, describes them - how the characters should look, what the music should sound like - a combination of all that makes something great.
... I got really far away from voice acting sorry.
Thing is, animation works on a different level and if Jessie Eisenburg was a VA and he acted like that, it wouldn't be that good. I know probably most of that made no sense.
Say what you will about Vic and other VA's, but the difference is that they know what it's like to be in the booth. I'm not talking about are they nice or not, but there's a significant difference between acting and voice acting in my opinion.
One important thing if you want to get into voice acting - learn to annunciate INSANELY well.
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