ABSTRACT
Performers' demo is their best first—and often only—opportunity to present their performing skills and abilities to talent agents, producers, and talent buyers. There are three primary approaches to voiceover demos. The first approach is a character demo that demonstrates the performer’s range of versatility through a variety of examples showing different emotions, attitudes, and personalities. The second approach focuses on the performer being the most real and natural person he or she can be while demonstrating a range of emotion within the natural, conversational delivery of their own voice. The third approach focuses on a specific delivery style, often heard as an attitude or intonation in the phrasing. Character and animation demos will feature their talents primarily for animation and video game work. They also demonstrate performers ability to create marketable voices for believable, “real” characters. A promo and trailer demo focuses on television programs and films.
