Lilting–or lifting up the voice–is a vocal affectation predominantly associated with, like, Valley Girls, but it seems to have taken on a life of its own amongst twenty- and thirty-somethings, you know? I do it, too. But I was unaware of the tendency until my voice-over coaches called me out […]
Voice Over
Ira Glass of “This American Life” talks about the building blocks of a great story “[One thing] nobody tells people who are beginners–and I really wish somebody had told this to me–is that, if you’re watching this video you’re somebody who wants to make videos, right? And all of us […]
Ira Glass on Storytelling (Video)
1 I wrote too soon about the cheat sheet mentioned in my last post. Last night during my private voice over session with Elaine Clark at Voice One, I realized I’ve hardly been using my cheat sheet to the extent that I should. Who cares if you can markup a script? […]
Session Lessons
3 Today on its Facebook page, Voices.com re-published voice over instructor and actor Marc Cashman‘s April 2010 podcast about the 12 skills you should hone as a voiceover talent, specifically detailing what he believes is necessary for the survival of VO’s fittest: Clarity Cleanliness Consistency Connected Conversational Cold Reading Chop-chop Coordination […]
The 12 C’s of Voice Over…And Then Some
Originally published by Peter O’Connell on his blog audio’connell’s voxmarketising. Click here for the complete post. You know how new products come out with a new version and say “It’s Better Than Ever!”? Well, with this year’s unofficial announcer’s audition (faux-dition), it’s true because we have one doozy of a […]