We’re now going to get even more serious with our voiceover script analysis.  Last week I showed you original copy, followed by that copy featuring underlined points on each line, highlighting where the emphasis should be and thus making you sound more connected to your message.  Nothing sounds more disconnected than a flat read.  Underlining helps...

Happy September Voiceover Students!  We now begin the application of all this talk I’ve been talking…understanding voice over scripts on a deeper level and using actual examples so you can apply the concepts specifically to their base point and truly “get it.”  This is the crux of getting any job.  You can’t get a voice over job until you “get” the...

In voiceovers, script analysis is your number one guarantee of being competitive.  I’ve said it before but it bears repeating over and over again, if you don’t truly understand every single sentence of what you’re saying then you’re not “saying” it, you’re reading it.  It’s why at least a third of the blogs I’ve written focus on the different ways to...

I’m constantly being asked about voiceover recording equipment and how best to set up a home studio.  I don’t know!  I’m a casting director and a coach, not an engineer, sorry!  But – I know people.  And I know how to google stuff.  So, what follows is a link to a guy named Crispin Freeman, a voice actor, who has done countless voiceovers in animation,...

There is danger in going over a cliff, right?  The lump in your stomache tells you so as a genius biological warning to save you from danger.  Going over a cliff is an ABRUPT way to end life, wouldn’t you say?  It’s also an abrupt way to finish a sentence in a voiceover script.  Or any sentence in life, period.  When you throw a sentence off a cliff, it’s...