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The craft itself: performance technique, script analysis, auditions, and vocal health. Our deepest archive, with contributions from coaches and working voice actors on how to deliver reads that book.
If you’re not connecting with the voice-over copy, your performance sounds forced, contrived, weak. Want to do better? VO pro Tom Dheere charts the process to sounding engaged, sincere, bold!
Surprised? Voice actors of all ages can appeal to millennial ears. But what they want to hear is an authentic friend, advises millennial VO pro Maria Pendolini, who shares ways to sound like that friend – and win auditions. Hint: It’s not fry and upspeak …
The elusive “Millennial voice-over read.” How many times have you been asked to do it? Yet have you figured it out? VO pro Ian Fishman knows that style well – and shares where you can find it, too …
Congratulations for landing the voice-over job! And now you learn that you’ll be recording in a directed session, with the clients listening in. Whether you’ll be in your home studio or another professional studio for that session, there are do’s and don’ts to follow – as VO pro Daree Allen Nieves explains …
“Sometimes all you need is to reconnect to your breath to create a state of calm and mindfulness in your body,” notes voice talent/coach Jean-Marc Berne – and that’s the state you want to be in for voice-over auditions. Jean-Marc shares how to achieve it …
Effectiveness is everything in your voice-over career, especially in the booth during a live session. Here’s a example from VO pro Tom Dheere’s recent live session, which became a collaboration between client and voice talent …
The voice-over e-learning process can be difficult at times. Re-takes for your mistakes, re-takes for script updates, delays for client team review …. But through it all, keep smiling, advises voice actor and e-learning expert Rick Gordon: Roll with the punches and you’ll be the client’s go-to VO talent ….
Amid all the emergencies and drama of today’s world, the reporting and voicing of it in constant high energy can actually tune the listener out. Speech specialist Dr. Ann Utterback advises looking for peaks and valleys in the copy to keep emphasis where it belongs …
A professional athlete or dancer wouldn’t enter the stadium or stage without warming up the muscles to enhance their performance. As a voice actor, your voice needs to warm up, too. Ready to roll, trill and make funny sounds with Rick Lance?
Feeling draggy in these hot summer months? Exercise could be the spark for more energy – and along the way, increase your voice-over breathing capacity … and even your ability to cope with deadlines. Speech specialist Dr. Ann Utterback gets us moving …