In this session we will go over how to choose excerpts for your demo - what genres, how long should they be, how to edit them. We will discuss your target audience and how to tailor your demo to match their expectations. We will do some narrating. We will have fun! 

How to prep an audiobook demo that will get you noticed.

This session is designed to give participants the tools to analyze the book, short story, or project so participant can communicate the author's intent clearly and effectively. At the end of this session, participants will be able to get a book, break it down and tell the story with the clarity of someone with first-hand knowledge of the material.

• Participants will learn how to analyze the audiobook manuscript to determine the author's intent.
• Participants will learn how to organize their time and recording schedule for their project.
• Participants will learn how to determine WHAT to act in their projects.

This session will be broken up into three parts:

Discussion about what producers look for in a great performance and what are some of the frequent traps performers fall into.

Practical advice about how to build a good website with an opportunity for a live review of select attendees' websites for feedback.

Performance feedback session: opportunity for actors to perform short scenes in front of a casting director for feedback on genres and age ranges their voice may be best suited . Scenes should be no more than two pages and ideally contain at least two genders speaking.

• Learning what producers and casting directors look for in a good performance.
• Learning how to be findable to casting directors: practical advice for building an effective website.
• Access performance feedback for those that get the chance to perform a scene, and the opportunity to see the directing process if they don't.

This session will empower the narrator to get in the driver's seat of their VO/Audiobook career. We will explore long-term visioning, practical goal-setting, and mindset work, so that you are crystal clear on what IS and what is NOT in your control. We'll dive deep into how setting a structured plan on the front-end will ultimately give you more freedom and flexibility in your life and career. Elise will share some of her favorite vocal health habits for sustained success in and out of the booth, so that you have a foundation for both lean and busy times in your business.

• Narrators will map out a long-term vision for their career, so they have a clear guide for making business and personal decisions in support of their long-term career trajectory.
• Narrators will create a one-year S.M.A.R.T. goal. in support of long-term vision and based on where they currently stand in their career trajectory.
• Narrators will explore habits and relationships needed in order to achieve one-year goal with as much work/life harmony as possible.