If you want to book voice over jobs, you need more than just a pretty voice. Way more. Acting chops. Good timing. Articulation (but not too much). And an understanding of the voiceover script. This tells the writer or producer that you GET IT. How exactly will they “hear” that you “get” the script? You tell them in each and every sentence by...
Voiceover ACTING Part 2
It’s called Voice Acting for a reason, so to continue writing about the best voiceover techniques, I’ll continue writing about the craft of acting. I’m still so chock full of Uta Hagen brilliance, so it’s gonna be Uta Uta Uta for at least this blog article and maybe a few more. I promise you won’t bore of her and her insight into acting. Insight into...
Voiceover Keyword Strategy – Finding the “Payoff”
I will gladly repeat this Voiceover Strategy concept till blue in the face – if you don’t understand what you’re saying on the deepest level (as deep as commercial copy can or will go!) then you are just READING. Remember when you wrote essays in school? Every time you put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard you had a point to make. You never wrote a...
A Powerful Voice for Voiceover
I recently had the pleasure of watching the talented voiceover actress (among other things) Annie Meisels at work in her next venture . . .public speaking. Annie has been a talented actress for decades and during my busiest times as a casting director for voice over auditions she was on my call sheet for many projects. Her broad range and spot on...