Last time we discussed developing your character voice we focused on analyzing voice over scripts and helping to possibly flesh out a background story for your character.  These things form the base work for your character, but they’re not the end story.  A character should be like any real person you know – full of life and personality.  There are two...

When you get a voiceover script for a character voice, there could be several things going through your head about that character.  That’s great.  The more you try and understand this character, picture it, imagine its likes and dislikes, its appearance, its quirks, the more it comes to “life.”                                          ·          You get a...

I have a voice over tip for you that will turn the most ordinary voice into something else:  try something new.  That’s right, it is that simple.  How else will you find a new angle on your very human sound unless you try to do something different with it?  There are many ways to develop your “character” of course, and we are going to focus on a technical...

Voice technique, in the end, does all boil down to your “acting” performance and whether it was believable or not.  There is absolutely a fine line between the techniques you can execute to “sound” more believable and basic intuitive acting itself, but again, in the end – were you authentic?  That is the bottom line.  There has long been a debate as to...

Albert Einstein may have understood voice over technique himself when he defined Insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”  Peter Pamela Rose of Acting Business Boot Camp, however, recently reminded me of this genius quote.  Thanks PPR.  So – are you insane?  If you feel like you might be in a voiceover rut and...