Voice over Services

The voice over is basically a division of the performing arts. It is an art where an actor provides a voice audio in various mediums. The voice acting services, particularly the foreign language voice over services, are offered in areas such as animation films, video games, feature films, commercial advertising, and television. For example, the English comedies, dramas or films are dubbed into foreign language dramas, comedies and films by virtue of the foreign language voice over services. If you want to know about possible careers in the field of voice prompts, you have to keep some important facts in mind.

Careers in Voice Prompts
Careers in Television and Animation
Television series and animated films are excellent venues for a career in voice over. Over the last twenty years, animation has steadily enjoyed a rise in popularity. Animation involves a substantial amount of the voice prompts work. If you are a woman then you are likely to have a greater advantage in this area in comparison to men. You could even be asked to throw over voice for male characters. For example, in the popular American sitcom “The Simpson’s” the person who lends the voice of Bart Simpson is a female. Another really good venue for a career in voice prompts is the television commercials. You will stand to make a lot of money in this field if you are good at voice over. While such work is mostly performed by relatively unknown people, there are some very famous actors who have done quite a bit of commercial work in the field of voice prompts such as John Corbett from the sitcom “Northern Exposure” and Laura Prepon from the famous sitcom, “That 70’S Show”. So if you wish to lend your voice in the arena of television commercials, then you will stand to make quite a bit of profit.

Careers in Video Games and Online
Video games are a very popular career option if you are interested in voice acting as a career. The gaming industry in Europe and America is earning as much as eight billion dollars in a year. Game developers have started offering ample rewards for the services of voice actors. Union actors are earning as much as seven hundred and sixty dollars in America for four hour work sessions. Well known film personalities like Chow Yun Fat and Samuel L Jackson have voice acted for audio books and video games. Internet voice acting is another wonderful area for a career in voice acting particularly foreign language voice over. There are a large number of service related websites and commercial websites on the internet which sell or advertise information and products. Some of the jobs that you may have to do when in the sphere of internet voice acting are conducting interactive tours for university and college campuses, making flash presentations, making company presentations etc.

Thus, the choice is unlimited when it comes to choosing a career in voice acting. So if voice acting is something that appeals to you greatly, you should go ahead and pursue it as a career.