"You can also make money by sound, 1,000 yuan / 1 hour, 5,000 yuan / 3 hours, 8,000 yuan / 5 hours ..." Such advertising slogans believe that many people have seen it on the Internet. Many institutions that focus on online education and training claim that through the training of just a few courses, people with zero foundation can become professional voice actors, and advertisements, film and television dramas, and audiobooks can be matched.
Recently, a training institution in Hunan has attracted attention, and some professional voice actors said that the agency has made its dubbing works into student voices for advertising; a number of other students have reported that these courses induce students to make training loans. Is dubbing really "low threshold and high income", as these training institutions call it?
99 yuan of fine dubbing class is now priced at 1 yuan
Is it really that cheap?
Many dubbing training institutions have placed advertisements on Weibo, WeChat, B station, Douyin and other platforms, attracting netizens who love animation and game dubbing. These advertisements say that the 99 yuan fine broadcast dubbing class, the current price is 1 yuan, and people without any foundation can make money by dubbing a mobile phone after learning, with a low threshold and high income. Dingdong speculated that the reason why he could see the relevant advertisements was because big data monitored that he often came into contact with content related to broadcast dubbing on the Internet.
With the idea of giving it a try, Jingle Bell bought the lesson. The trainer told Ding Dong that dubbing broadcasts are very profitable and the threshold is low, but if you want to make money, you must train with him. The trainers first taught Ding-Dong a few so-called tricks to make the sound better.
In the second half of the course, the trainers began to induce the trainees to take out loans. According to the trainers, the course is divided into three phases: beginner, intermediate and advanced, with a tuition fee of 8,000 yuan per file, and if all are completed, the fee is less than 20,000 yuan. If they don't have much money in hand, they can provide a loan, and they can pay it back quickly after they finish their studies, which is also an investment.
Induce student loans
Several voice actors denounced the so-called crash course
Dingdang's encounter is not a case, the reporter searched on a complaint platform, there are more than 350 complaints about dubbing express agencies, many of which are about "inducing loans and refunding difficulties". Some students reported that they were successively induced by a training institution in Hunan to handle "installment loans" on platforms such as Jingdong Baitiao, Credit Commune, and Installment Music, and some pictures released by complainants showed that they had to repay more than 500 yuan of training loans every month.
In addition to inducing student loans with low thresholds and high incomes, a number of voice actors have recently denounced such dubbing network crash courses on the Internet. Voice actor Feng Junhua reflected that the agency found someone to lip-sync and said that the work he voiced for the skin of the Purple Xia Fairy in the Glory of the King was the voice of the student.
In this regard, the agency replied that it was caused by the weak awareness of the copywriters about the copyright of the broadcast. The agency avoided answering the induced loans mentioned by the participants.
Tip: Choose training providers carefully
Improve yourself within the scope of your ability
In recent years, online courses have become more and more popular with learners, and they can be learned anytime, anywhere, using fragmented time, and the price is much lower than that offline courses. However, there are also many problems, such as the quality of courses cannot be guaranteed, it is difficult to supervise fees, and false advertising is not regulated.
Peng Yao, a voice actor who has assigned film and television drama works to a number of well-known male actors, said that dubbing is by no means an industry that can quickly earn high salaries. "The price list of part-time dubbing income is definitely not something that an ordinary person can get after months of training with zero foundation." Peng Yao introduced that in terms of film and television drama dubbing, first of all, there must be a chance to become a reserve dubbing staff of the company, and then at least half a year with the studio. From offline learning to internship, from dubbing small characters to dubbing important characters, it takes a long process.
Radio host Yao Di, who has dubbed a number of advertisements and documentary works, introduced that the national broadcast hosting art college graduates at least 1,000 people every year, but the current active voice actors add up to only 100 people. "The dubbing market is not big enough to support such a large number of voice actors."
For many dubbing enthusiasts, studying in their spare time can not only increase some income, but also realize their dreams, which seems to be a good thing to kill two birds with one stone. But it is precisely this kind of thinking that can easily make inexperienced students fall into the advertising trap.
Remind everyone that when choosing online courses, first choose a formal training institution; in addition, check more evaluations of institutions and students, do not believe in false propaganda such as fast, low threshold, high income, etc.; most importantly, carefully choose training loans to improve yourself within the scope of your ability.
(General Taiwan Central Broadcasting reporter 丨 Zhou Yifan)