Chris Agos has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 1 author, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is The Voice Over Startup Guide.
The Voice Over Startup Guide
Summary
The Complete Guide to Making Money from Voice Acting • Have you gone down the voice-over online video and blog rabbit hole? • Finding it hard to know just what to do first? • What if you had a simple, step-by-step guide to working in the lucrative voice over industry? There are plenty of people earning great money from home as professional voice-over artists, but if you’re not already in the business, it can seem impossible to break in. The Missing Link to Paid Voice-Over Acting In this book you’ll gain access to the exclusive world of professional voice-over in seven simple steps. Voice-over actor Chris Agos walks you through the most effective ways to earn money in today’s professional voice-over industry. You’ll gain a clearly-defined map of the industry that will open up opportunities you’d never have thought possible. What’s more, we’ve included sample scripts and audio tracks of every important voice over style, so you can hear how the professionals do it. What You’ll Learn: • The 10 ways voice actors earn money from home • The most effective ways to develop your voice-over acting skills • The two essential resources that all voice talent should never be without • How to perform the 14 essential voice-over styles that dominate the industry • How not to get a talent agent • How to create a voice over demo that converts into paying jobs • Bonus 1: A complete list of 25 free actionable steps you can take right now to advance your progress. • Bonus 2: A full glossary of VO industry terms. No matter where you live, how much time you have or what gear you use, The Voice Over Startup Guide: How To Land Your First VO Job takes you from your first steps in recording, to getting full-time paid work as a voice-over actor.
©2019 KTPR, Inc. (P)2019 KTPR, Inc.
Commercial Voice Over Strategies
Summary
The complete handbook for anyone wanting to book more commercial VO jobs. Voice actors across the globe rely on commercials as a good source of income, but success in this area of the voice over industry can be tricky. VO talent need a strong understanding of the many elements involved in delivering captivating, original commercial reads. Commercial Voice Over Strategies: Tell a Story, Land the Job is the answer. Veteran voice talent Chris Agos walks you through a step-by-step way of ensuring your reads will resonate with talent buyers. You'll learn: The eight commercial styles dominating today's advertising How an advertiser's industry, sector, or history should influence your reads How to use the psychology of each script to your advantage A way of making your auditions come alive through world-building How to know the advertiser's intent behind the spot before you read a word of it One thing ad copywriters don't want when they listen to auditions You'll get: A simple, step-by-step way of analyzing, interpreting, and delivering commercial scripts Scripts modeled after actual commercials that have aired An easy but effective copy-marking system An understanding of the many elements that must align in order for a voice actor to book a job A detailed look into the commercial casting process To be competitive in today's commercial marketplace, you need to be a commercial copy master. Give Commercial Voice Over Strategies a listen today!
©2020 Chris Agos (P)2020 Chris Agos
Acting in Chicago, Third Edition
Summary
Created by established Chicago actor and teacher Chris Agos, Acting in Chicago demystifies the question of how to earn a full-time living as an actor. Used in university acting programs and recommended by agents and acting coaches, it has become the actor's definitive guide to starting and growing a career in the Midwest's booming entertainment business.
Learn about the seven ways Chicago actors make money actually acting, how much career actors can earn, agents, casting directors, essential investments to make (and which to skip), the actors' union, and much, much more.
This edition adds new information on self-taped auditions, how Chicago actors can prepare for a move to Los Angeles, and how to get a child actor into the business.
©2018 Chris Agos (P)2018 Chris Agos