There’s a creative side and an informational side to all voiceover scripts. Starting with the informational side, you have the hard facts about the product: zero calories, 100% organic, all natural, 4 out of 5 dentists recommend…..You can’t argue with the facts. They are what they are. They can be selling points for sure, but they’re still just facts. On...
I love when my students make mistakes, because I learn so much from them. When they go high instead of low inflection wise, I can hear exactly why it happened. Sometimes it's because they went up on the word before it, and that made it unnatural for them to go down on the word after it that required a down inflection. Sometimes it is because they paused...
Smart inflection choices in voiceover should and can come directly from real life, but it doesn't always come easy when you're suddenly faced with a script, aka with words that are not your own. Inflections are a huge part of how we communicate. We raise our voices higher when we are excited. We lower our voices when we are serious. There are...
Every so often I like to take a moment to recognize how vast the voiceover universe is. So many articles, ideas, and tips on how to succeed in voiceover….I have come to realize that we all have a niche within this niche here. For voice actors, your niche might be the professional conversational guy nailing down those corporate narration auditions,...
What’s the most important voiceover tip in the history of voiceover techniques? It’s actually not a technique at all, and that’s why you will love it. It requires no skill, no practice, no research, no training. That’s right coaches; it seems I’m selling us all short here. But don’t get me wrong, you need all those other layers of understanding. You...