Huh?  Well, we voice over casting directors and coaches often get a bit tired of our direction after a while, of our voiceover tip vocabulary toolbox, so we like to shake things up.  “Throwing it off a cliff” simply means to make certain words or phrases less important by the way you deliver them.  What this does, more importantly, is give the power over...

We have taken it as gospel since it’s been used – voiceover: a voice speaking over a set of moving pictures that narrates or accompanies the scene(s) playing out.  But why?  Why have we decided this voice is over the picture?  Is it more important than the picture?  Is it less?  Is it serving the actor to think of the voice as being “above” and “over” all...

A lovely, new voiceover student of mine brought to the surface for me something that’s been brewing in my subconscious for a while now: How we talk about the script we are looking at.  There is much power in our words.  Our words connect to feelings, our feelings come through as intentions, and our intentions direct the way we emote the heart of the...

Many voiceover students are quite attracted to the idea of doing audiobooks.  There are many genres of voiceover out there, including: commercial, narration, corporate, promos, trailers, video games . . . and the list goes on.  But books – we all read them, or have at least in the past (tsk tsk), so it only seems natural to feel less intimidated by reading...

  Voiceover tips from the perspective of a voice actor who’s also a sound engineer are a true gem.  Following are the thoughts on what makes a great voice over performance, as told by Marc Rose of MJR Sound Design, one of Portland, Oregons’ premier voiceover demo production facilities (among other services):   To me, there are several factors...