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| Preface | |
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| Acting Comes First | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Rules of the Game | |
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| Pre-Game | |
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| The Clock Is Running | |
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| The Starting Line | |
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| Getting a Feel for the Playing Field | |
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| Get Ready for Workouts and Work | |
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| Train to Reach Your Fighting Weight | |
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| Preempt Problems | |
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| Finding Your Balance | |
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| Gear and Play Things | |
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| The Gold Standard | |
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| Coming Up for Air | |
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| Exercise Your Imagination, Not Your Voice | |
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| Strengthen Emotional-Choices | |
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| Defining the Boundaries-Approaching Copy | |
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| Play the Game | |
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| Key Suggestions | |
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| Warm Ups | |
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| Turn Up Your Imagination | |
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| Getting Ready to Compete | |
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| Use Your Hands to Free Your Voice | |
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| Learning the Rules of Radio and TV | |
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| Play Book | |
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| The Tryouts-Auditions and Casting | |
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| Finding Your Game | |
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| The One-Two Punch of Promos | |
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| Going for the Gold with Commercials | |
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| The 1,500-Meter Race: Long-Form Scripts | |
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| The Marathon-Audio Books | |
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| Relay Races-Multiple Character Radio Scripts | |
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| Lost in Play-Crazy Animation | |
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| The Record Book-Your Demo and Marketing Plan | |
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| The Dos and Don'ts of Demos | |
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| Production Value | |
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| Defining Style and Finding Copy | |
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| Distributing Your Demo | |
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| Showing Off Your Trophies-Marketing | |
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| Resources and Referrals | |
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| Be Persistent | |
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| Creativity Pays | |
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| Draw on All Your Talents | |
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| Playing Your Game | |
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| Game Time-Auditions | |
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| Technical High Hurdles | |
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| Animation-Acting on the Spot | |
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| Game Time-Thinking Outside the Booth | |
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| Finding Work | |
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| Coaches' Corner | |
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| What Makes a Successful Voice-over Talent? | |
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| What Makes a Good | |
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| Voice-over Demo? | |
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| What Are Your Pet Peeves? | |
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| What Are the Biggest | |
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| Mistakes Actors Make? | |
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| What Skills Do VO Actors Need? | |
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| What's It Like to Be on Your Side of the Desk? | |
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| Are Celebrities Monopolizing the Field? | |
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| What Are Your Thoughts about the Agent/Client Relationship? | |
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| What about the Actor's Relationship to the Casting Director? | |
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| How Do Actors Gain Success in Animation? | |
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| What's Unique about Promos? | |
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| How Have New Technologies Changed the VO Field? | |
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| What Can an Actor Do to hnprove His Odds of Success? | |
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| How Much Follow-up Should an Actor Do with Agents? | |
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| Do VO Accors Have to Live in Los Angeles? | |
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| Some Tips from Producer Michael Maxwell | |
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| Welcome to the Games-Agents and Going Pro | |
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| What Does an Agent Do for You? | |
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| How Do You Get an Agent? | |
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| Sell Yourself | |
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| Slam Dunk | |
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| Promo Scripts; Study Points | |
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| Script Formats | |
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| Commercial Scripts | |
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| Industrial and Marketing Copy | |
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| Study Points | |
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| Multiple Character Study Points for Radio Spots | |
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| Books and Character Copy | |
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| A Boy Named Blue | |
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| Fifi of Fifth Avenue | |
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| Fifi of Fifth Avenue-Excerpts | |
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| Animation Copy: Study Points | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| About the CD | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Index | |