Career Essay:

  Voiceover

Voiceover is a job to make voices for TV that aren’t real people like animated cartoons or animated movies or even on a commercial where you just talk and nobody sees you. Voiceover is an entertainment job for kids and adult! I also want to say in about 10-20 years humans will still be doing voiceover because a robot can’t change their voices and we have vocal cords which help us change our voices!

The duties for a Voiceover is to change your voice to make it sound like however the director wants it to sound like or the director may want you to use your regular voice. You need to read the lines and say them while you make that specific voice. Also you to make it sound as real as possible like if the line says that you’re yelling then you have to yell, if the line says you sound happy then you have to sound happy. And a robot cannot do that.

The salary (money you make) is around $20 to a couple hundred dollars for an hour of work per job so you can get maybe $50 dollars when you finish doing your job and when you come back the next day to do a different scene or even a different episode or commercial you can make more money or less money.

The equipment for Voiceover is mostly a mic and computer because you need a mic to talk into so people can hear them and a computer to add some music or for editing purposes because the editors who actually make the characters need a computer to make it and first they need to draw the character and robots can’t draw or makeup characters, they need an actual picture from the internet.

Now you can see all the things you can do for as a Voiceover and that in about 10-20 years robots cannot take this job because they can’t change their voices.