VO Pro Tip: Review your winning/liked auditions

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Voice-Over Pro Tip

Review your Auditions

Hey Reader,

If you audition for something and book it, that's obviously a great feeling, and then you'll go on and record the job and maybe take a look/listen to the final project when it is released.

But do you ever go back and listen to that original audition you submitted?

Probably not, (I'm guilty of this often too).

But I think it is a good idea to do so. You obviously did something right on that audition, and I think you can glean a lot from going back and listening critically to auditions that you booked, and even A/Bing them with auditions that you thought were great, but didn't book.

This might provide some insight into things you did right and areas to focus on for future auditions.

But something important I also want to note is - don't read too heavily into this if you are A/Bing with other auditions you didn't book. It doesn't necessarily mean you did something wrong on those non-winning auditions, sometimes it's a great performance and all the tech-aspects are great as well, but the client just preferred another voice.

-Michael

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-Michael

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