So you want to be a voiceover professional? Me too! Hi I'm Jason. I'm a client of Lesley's, and I'm going to be filling in for a while writing this blog. I'm here to tell you all about my experience working with Lesley, and what it's like to get into the voice over industry from day one. Since I was a kid, I've always done funny voices. Usually when...
Rules for natural voice over performances
The tools we use for voiceover success all come from what we ALREADY DO. That’s right; you already have what it takes to book more voice over jobs! This is because getting voice over work mostly comes from being BELIEVABLE. There are of course many nuances that also win you jobs on top of this, such as sounding confident, engaged, empathetic, personal,...
More strategy for understanding Voice Over Scripts
There is no hard formula for gleaning keywords from voiceover copy. There are too many writers in the world with too many creative ideas (hallelujah!) about how to present the information and so the presentation style will always be varied. This leaves us scratching our heads each time we get to a script to try and understand what is being said, what is...
Voiceover success from ANALYSIS
It’s time for another round of voice over script analysis. To book voiceover jobs, you MUST know what you are talking about, and more importantly, HOW they want you to talk about it. As usual, we will cover both these areas….the BIG picture being the tone they want you to evoke, and the LITTLE picture being all the keywords on each line that support the...
More Mastery of Keywords for Voiceover Success
If you want to book voice over jobs, you need more than just a pretty voice. Way more. Acting chops. Good timing. Articulation (but not too much). And an understanding of the voiceover script. This tells the writer or producer that you GET IT. How exactly will they “hear” that you “get” the script? You tell them in each and every sentence by...