Tim Allen’s amazing performance as the narrator in Disney’s wonderful and compelling documentary Chimpanzee got me thinking about narration technique even more.  The amazing balance he gave to the role of narrator deserves to be examined even further.  It is the example to set for more narrators to come, broadening the scope of what was once traditionally...

I had a voiceover narration lesson today, for myself, as a coach. I went to see the movie Chimpanzee with my daughter.  For starters, I play a really mean game of “guess the voices in an animated feature.”  This time I failed.  Couldn’t do it.  But I was hooked.  The delivery was at times intense (chimpanzee tribes were physically battling for food...

An NYC voiceover student of mine that I coached via Skype and phone for several years now has about a half dozen National Network accounts.  This is the stuff voiceover dreams are made of!  He has the luxury of walking into a voiceover audition and thinking, “If I don’t get it, all the bills are still paid for the rest of the year…..and then some.”  He...

I was recently in NYC visiting friends and family and doing some voiceover demo production work, and because I have friends in the industry there I also spent some time in the waiting areas of places like www.actorsconnection.com and www.oneononenyc.com.  I found a new appreciation for the actor.  The waiting, sitting, shifting, waiting actor.  As someone...

I spend a lot of time having voiceover students focus on finding their own inner “magic.” The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron is a great resource for tapping into your own inner "magic."  Everyone has it, and I can see it in every single person I meet.  The problem is that for some reason it all disappears (like magic!) once they start “reading.”  Yes,...