You can analyze a voiceover script in a number of ways, but the way that gives your read the most authenticity is to notice how the script makes YOU FEEL.  What you ultimately bring to the read is that you’re not reading a script or making some announcement, but sharing how you feel about something.  This is emoting.  The only way we can truly emote is to...

I am currently on page 134 of The Actor’s Art and Craft, and my mind is being blown apart – in a good way.  The book follows one of the classes taught by William Esper, who is conveying the lessons of his own great master, Sanford Meisner.  You can read a short synopsis on the Meisner Technique as well as on all the other great teachers and techniques in...

Back to our script analysis work again.  I recently tweeted (yes I begrudgingly and very infrequently….ech….”tweet”) this comment on mastering script analysis and bringing it to the performance, “Voiceovers are a lot like the most successful relationships.  Sometimes you have to do what your partner wants, and you BOTH win.”  Believe it people.  Your...

I find blogging to be exhausting.  It’s work.  Absolutely grueling work.  I love to cook.  I’m actually pretty good at it.  I will never make money as a food blogger.  Why?  Because I like to COOK.  Not write.  The same goes for voice over coaching.  I love to coach.  I love to work with students and see them start with head scratching and cluelessness and...

We continue with the ever-critical work of understanding the script.  I have switched it up this time to work with a corporate narration voice over, as many of you know that corporate narration is a fruitful niche in the voiceover market.  Understanding corporate narration scripts is often times even more important that the work of analyzing commercial...