The best voice over techniques all cover the same ground – whether it be using your pitch over your volume, choosing a “down” inflection more often than an “up”, or most importantly…understanding the voice over script and thus the writers’ intentions on what should be done with it.  There is one technique so simple however, that it almost seems arbitrary. ...

I offer a free voiceover consult on my website for an obvious reason, to gain new potential students.  But I also believe that I can spot major problems or potential by hearing someone read one script, and this way I get to immediately encourage them or scare them away.  But another reason I offer this consult is that most people are way more comfortable...

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...