Voice: Acting

Voice Actor It’s been told that some decades ago, Jerry Lewis “performed” the following exercise while filling in for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. It was called The Announcer’s Test,…

Cashman Commercials © 2008 Cashman Commercials Q: I’m a working voice actor who’s read hundreds of scripts, and I’ve noticed that copywriters are very inconsistent and confusing with punctuation. Some…

Voice Actor We’ve all had to go back days, weeks, or months later to make revisions to previous voice-over work to accommodate client changes or tweaks. What does it take…

Voice Actor I’d like to offer some thoughts about what I call the “power of the pause,” and how it’s importance in effective communication needs to be kept in mind…

Cashman Commercials ©2008 Cashman Commercials Q: I’m a working voice actor who auditions a lot of different scripts, and I’m not always sure how to deliver the script when direction…

Voice Talent / Trainer / Producer VoicesVoices Have you been asked to impersonate a celebrity voice? Do so only with great caution! Celebrities and their estates quite understandably want to…

Cashman Commercials © 2007 Cashman Commercials Q: Sometimes when voice-over clients ask me to articulate certain words they say I’m not speaking clearly. They seem to contradict the direction they…

Actress & Author ©2008 Jean Ann Wright As a voice actor, you need the ability to develop original characters from scratch. These characters may be used in animation, in a commercial…

Voice Actor: Know The Triggers To Really Communicate / Part 1 By Ron Knight “Doctor, I don’t think I can stand it any more. My wife thinks she’s a chicken.” “Hmm. Okay.…

When you voice copy in a way that opens a Pandora’s Box of emotional triggers in your session’s director, producer or client, it can indeed slow things down (Part 1).  This is why a…