Voice: Acting

Your listeners can choose to stay with you or tune out. What grabs and keeps their attention? It’s “sound and connection,” advises top voice actor/coach/sound engineer Dan Friedman, in this excerpt from his new book, “Zen And The Art Of Voiceover” …

“Poetry allowed me to understand the complexities of human emotions,” says voice actor and poet Kabir Singh. And “Voice acting is all about human emotions.” We all have poetry in us, he notes, and in this article shares how to find it in yourself to “dance the line of imagination and performance …

Want to be more competitive in voice over? VO coach Kathleen Puls Andrade says “Hold up your hand. Assign each finger a performance discipline like theater, on-camera, improv, voice over and movement” – and keep exercising all those muscles …

If you don’t believe in YOU … i.e, your voiceover script character … neither will your listeners. Your auditions will fall flat. Top voice actor/coach Anne Ganguzza has 6 tips to get you in character – and book the job(s) …

Do your voice over characters sometimes sound too one-dimensional or stereotyped? Top voice actor/trainer Pat Fraley tells how to elevate your performance by giving your characters conditions and agendas …

Quick: Make your multiple audiobook characters interact with expressions of fear, anger, sadness, tenderness – and maintain your narrator neutrality – all in the same scene. It’s a challenge that voice talent / instructor Monique Sacay-Bagwell met with a technique that lets her create and move between emotional states quickly and naturally. It’s called the Emotional Body Method – a valuable tool for many types of VO copy, which Monique details here …

Your voice over clients “need you tell the story. If you don’t know the story, you’re of no use,” says top voice over talent and trainer Pat Fraley. Here’s how to find the story and describe it in the briefest of terms – in a Log Line …

What if you could listen to a voice over casting team while they were reviewing your audition? You’d learn a lot! David Goldberg, CEO (Chief Edge Officer) at Edge Studio, a major voice over training company and recording studios based in New York City, details a free way to learn how to predict how VO casting teams and directors will react to your auditions …

You catch a mistake in the voice over script – maybe a grammatical error, something that doesn’t sound right in English. Or you’re challenged by multiple ways to pronounce something. What to do? Top voice talent/coach Tom Dheere explains ‘coverage’ …

Should you jump right into a voice over script when you grasp the first few words, or take some time to study the words for a road map to emotionally connect with your listeners? VO pro/coach Dan Friedman advises to “think before you speak.” Here’s why and how …