There are two common definitions for INTEGRITY, and both play a role in your voiceover success.  The first one is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.  The second is the state of being whole, undivided, complete.  Both definitions do play a critical role in the successful voiceover audition, but especially the latter.  Let’s...

Voiceover acting contains the challenge of finding authenticity where there is seemingly very little. I pose to you the possibility that the way you approach a voiceover is not that different from the way you approach.  You’re projecting!! I skipped a line to let that sink in.  For those of you who skipped an English class or two (I skipped the math...

I’m your voiceover Chinese water torturer.  I’ve got a one-track mind.  I’m a broken record. . . . YOU MUST KNOW WHAT YOUR INTENTION IS.  YOU MUST GET IN THE WRITER’S HEAD VIA VERY FOCUSED SCRIPT ANALYSIS.  YOU MUST BE, NOT READ. We’ve been doing this work for the last bunch of blogs, allowing you to really SEE a script for what it is in the hopes it will...

Back to the heart of what matters – KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. I had a student a few weeks ago who read a script for me.  I asked him, after he finished, to tell me what it’s about.  He said he had no idea.  I had another student just yesterday who said he knows NOW (after a few intensive sessions together) that he just had a “read” and he just “did it”...

I recently found an article written by a voice actor regarding technique for voicing video games.  I think that some of the information there is relevant not only for games but also for many other genres of voiceover work, especially commercial.  A lot of it focuses on how to sound REAL, as it should, and has been said many times before.  The specificity...