What goals should I set with my coach?
After you and your coach have determined your range and style, your coaching goal should be producing your first demo for you to distribute to prospective agents and clients, so you can start on your way to becoming a professional voice talent.
As a rule, you should prepare a different demo for each type of voiceover work you want to do - Commercial, Character, Narration and so on. Therefore, your coaching sessions should reflect the goals you have set for your demo. If you feel that doing Characters are not your forte, then your coaching sessions should focus on Commercials and Narrations.
I recommend working on all types of voice overs. After all, the more kinds of reads you can do, the more marketable you become. Most of my students have a hard time with the narrative portion of coaching because it's so boring. In reality, narrative reads make up a large portion of the business I bring in each year - because a ton of professional voice work is in the narrative format.
In the end, you should be able to walk into any studio and read any kind of copy "cold." Which leads us to our next question.....
