Everything Voiceover

This is my new creation "Everything Voiceover", with this site I plan on sharing information that I've learned to all newcomers and hopefully help people out. This is gonna take a lot of time and effort but the wheels started turning already. Here's the links.

http://everythingvoiceover.blogspot.com/

http://everythingvoiceover.wordpress.com/

Also, My very first Review

Long Long Night

This upcoming week is gonna be kind of tough for me. On the one hand I'm going to leave for vacation to Vegas with a lovely little lady. Secondly, I have auditions. If I do an audition I risk the problem of maybe having to tell someone who hires me that I can't do anything for a week......... what to do. I'm leaning toward not auditioning.......... Ick.

Anywho! Here's the big news! I got a voiceover job. After a drought of about a week and a half, I'm back in business and the pay for this one makes up for the last few week. It's a web design tutorial and I had 20 Pages to do, about 5000 words. It took me the better part of two days to finish and I fully expect a need for a redo here and there but so far it's just great to be back up and running.

I apologize for the lack of blogs but I have big feeling about these next few days, I may not audition but I will be doing great things to take steps in the right direction to becoming a better voiceover artist. Stay tuned!

2 Weeks and Nothing to Blog About

Last week was kind of bad for me because the auditions weren't lucrative at all, but I'm keeping my head up and this week is turning out slightly better. First off, getting my headshots on Wednesday which I got a haircut for which I'm kind of not enjoying but I'll deal with it and TODAY, got my business cards, I'll upload a pic. So, other than that, no real huge news, I've been looking into non-union agents and all I really needed was my business cards, now I'll work out the cover letter next and the submission time. I've found that it's really tough to take that next step, you never know whats going to happen. But, times are coming quick and I'm gonna have to make a move soon but, I'm really close. I got some promising auditions today that I may have a good chance of pulling wish me luck!!!!

Wow oh Wow

Well, I've been pretty damn lazy, a WEEK with no Blogs, well lemme catch yall up. Since that switch to Young Adult with my last post, the Auditions have been cut to almost death. So, I'm not auditioning as much as I used to. On a good note though, last week on Mon, Tuesday, and Wednesday, I received a Voiceover job PER DAY!!!! And many came from those FEW jobs. I'm still getting used to it. It started with Smokeaway Tax Relief, then the Roblar Winery and Vineyard made me the voice for their promo campaign. Lastly, I got the "Crazy On Digital" website promo, which might I add was from a 3 audition day. Not bad.

After that, I got a little lazy, the weekend after that was kinda non existent. I didn't do very much because I felt so productive. However, that HAD to change. And, it started on Saturday. I started reworking ALL of my demos and that means ALL of them. I found that the demos I had were great but were first drafts, I needed to UP the ante, so I redid them and created new ones as well. I now have over 10 demos, they are Commercial, Cartoon, Corporate, Videogame, Children's Book, Audiobook, Nerds, Snobs, Heroes, Villains, and Men In Authority.  I've reworked my website to be DEDICATED to voiceover. My theatre site will be secondary on that. It's time to get to work.

Today and yesterday (monday and Tuesday), I redid my site problems, started submitting to google, I also uploaded HD videos of my demos to Youtube, I now have a Youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/JustinDTorresVO?feature=mhee

I am in the process of getting a Justindtorres.com email address. I figured I'd use support@justindtorres.com, Justin@justindtorres.com just sounded repetitive. I'm also getting more and more happy with my logo and web page. I may take it all the way. No spending money on website design and logo design, this is pretty fun and simple. I may regret it but my wallet wont.

Lastly, I started an excel sheet of agents that I plan on sending the info to (long time from now) but I'm getting to know the marketing side of things and I'm gonna make a go of it. I may have to say that very soon, I may have to make large steps. Other than that, just waiting on more jobs, but I think I need to get a strategy to go out and get jobs to come to me, that means agents and cover letters. Whew! Back on the productive train.