Voice: Acting

Moneen Daley Harte – voice talent, coach and popular radio personality in the Boston area – was ‘on air’ shortly after the Boston Bomber capture last week. “To simplify and sort out my emotions, I had to dig deep into what I was feeling so that my delivery would be natural and my word choice appropriate,” she writes, and shares how she met this challenge …

You’ve got to warm up your voice – stretch those muscles! – before recording every day. And to keep your routine fresh, voice specialist Ann Utterback suggests some positively plosive phrases …

When you’re receiving voice over directions – is the client always right? Of course not. But YOU must be, in how you handle the situation. Veteran voice talent and coach Deb Munro shares pointers on how to act professionally – with a tough skin on your ego …

Script specs – “You gotta love ’em,” says leading voice talent, trainer and author Elaine Clark. But that doesn’t mean we understand them! Elaine demonstrates how to decode directions to learn what the client REALLY wants in your read …

Writer and voice actor Matt Forrest rants about a “scourge upon our advertising landscape” – INDUSTRY-SPEAK. In other words, writing or voicing copy that listeners won’t understand. Converse with your audience, not confuse them, he urges …

VOICE ACTINGIf The Script Read Is A Shot In The Dark,Ask Your Client These 10 Questions …By Lisa RiceVoice ActorIf you’ve ever painted a room, you know that prepping, detail…

Keep your communications vibrant, believable and life changing, urges popular voice actor and coach Elley-Ray Hennessy. In other words – be human in this increasingly automated world. Elley-Ray shares 20 tips …

Are you annoying your voice over clients? Edge Studio recently polled top creative teams for their pet peeves about voice actors, and reports seven categories of what to avoid …

Stop judging yourself, worrying about what others think. “Let the inner freak out,” urges voice talent / coach Deb Munro – not just on Halloween, but all year long. Here’s her recipe for creating characters with credibility and emotion (that will probably surprise you) …

Scripts with lists need to be voiced with variety, says veteran voice talent and coach Elaine Clark. Here’s her formula to “stair step each list item up, down or to zigzag the notes in the musical scale as tension is built up and released” …