Liz Drury Voiceovers' Blog

When would-be voiceover artists contact me to ask for advice on how to get into the industry, I always tell them the same thing - start with some training. It wasn't quite the way I started - I had actually done some work before I looked for training, but I was lucky - it's not the norm to get work without at least having a decent demo reel, and I quickly realised that I was going to need this if I was going to get more work. I was living in America when I started my career, and the training company I went to was Edge Studio . I did lots of research before settling on Edge, and what I really liked about them was the fact that they won't just train anybody. They assess everyone who comes to them, and they tell them whether it's worth their time and money to go through the training programme. There are plenty of companies out there who will gladly take your money from you and leave with a voiceover demo that sounds terrible. I was confident that this wouldn't be the

Happy New Year! It's that time of year when everyone swears they're going to get fit and healthy, and the gyms and fitness classes are packed full of people trying to work off all the cheese and chocolate they ate over the holidays. (I've still got a fridge full of cheese so no point trying to work it off yet ;-) ). It's also the high season for bugs and illness. We've all been cooped up in warm houses with our relatives for days on end, and there's no wonder the bugs get passed around. I came back from Christmas with a sore throat, my kids were sneezing, my husband was sniffling - the dog was the only healthy one (actually judging by the smells he's been producing, I'm not even sure about that...). As a voiceover artist this is the time of year I dread. A sore throat I can just about cope with if I have a short script to record - but a blocked nose is no good at all. Sometimes it's possible to keep working if a client sends me a one off projec