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| Lucien |
 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:17 pm |
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| Can you articulate where spec jobs come into play for voice-over? What is the difference between an audition and doing a job on spec? |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:33 pm |
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Traditionally, professional "spec" work is done for minimum scale, in order to assemble a polished demo piece - to hopefully sell the talents of cast and crew along with the proposed series or individual film/media production, to be presented to a Studio or other Industry client for consideration. Since there are no guarantees, voice actors should be wary of those who probably have no intention of hiring a "non-celebrity", or anyone except a "tried'n'true" favorite VO talent for the finished piece (when/if actually packaged and sold), and know that they will likely never see a penny beyond that "spec" session; so it's often a leap of faith anytime they submit to perform unpaid spec work "as a favor".Lucien wrote: What is the difference between an audition and doing a job on spec?
These days, not only spec, but "scratch" or "temp" recordings (pre-production tracks never intended for use in a finished production) are all too often falsely labeled as "auditions"; so editors may conveniently assemble polished professional-grade voice work into fully-produced demos for free - dangling the prospect of overscale rewards, once your efforts have helped them sell the project/campaign to a bigtime client. In "the old days", scratch VO bits were provided by a project writer or editor, before hiring pro talent to record a spec piece to present to clients. Now that development budgets have been slashed, and creative imagination in voice casting hardly exists anymore, free scratch session work is deemed "a necessary evil" to be considered at all, for potential premium payscale jobs. Seems that VO demo 'reels' and traditional audition samples aren't good enough to land a paying gig nowadays: They want us to record the entire session's worth of tracks before actual casting takes place, to present fully-produced pieces and all possible variations for paying clients to mull over - without the courtesy of realtime supervision or definitive direction to come up with a viable submission. For multi-voice talent, that's a tall order of haphazard guesswork without pay, in hopes that one take or another will make it into the final "elimination round"... |
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