{"id":101,"date":"2012-08-12T04:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T04:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2013-07-25T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T14:04:38","slug":"voiceover-narration-tips-from-a-chimp-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/voiceover-narration-tips-from-a-chimp-flick\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiceover Narration Tips from a Chimp flick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I had a voiceover narration lesson today, for myself, as a coach.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I went to see the movie <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.disney.com\/chimpanzee\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Chimpanzee<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> with my daughter.\u00a0 For starters, I play a really mean game of \u201cguess the voices in an animated feature.\u201d\u00a0 This time I failed.\u00a0 Couldn\u2019t do it.\u00a0 But I was hooked.\u00a0 The delivery was at times intense (chimpanzee tribes were physically battling for food territories), at times comedic (chimpanzees putting down a \u201ctool\u201d and walking away briefly and some other chimp casually waddling over to take it), and at times warm and endearing (too many spoilers here).\u00a0 I was impressed.\u00a0 The footage was truly incredible on it\u2019s own but the narration brought us so much deeper into their \u201ctribe.\u201d\u00a0 The intimacy with which the narrator spoke was so authentic, as if we\u2019d known them for years and they were sitting in the seat right next to us relaying the story\u2019s details.\u00a0 Incredible.\u00a0 I am often used to a more formal and traditional narrator \u2013 not necessarily robotic, but we can hear the \u201cannouncing\u201d\u2026..the \u201cpolished performance.\u201d\u00a0 In commercial casting the trend for a long time now for specs has leaned toward \u201cconversational, relaxed, non-anncry.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019d hire this narrator in a heartbeat.\u00a0 Okay, have you gotten it yet, my avoidance of even telling you the sex of the narrator?\u00a0 I can\u2019t hold it in anymore, and I hope you will be as pleasantly shocked as I was \u2013 Tim Allen.\u00a0 Yes, Home Improvement guy.\u00a0 I never watched the show and I didn\u2019t have his voice memorized.\u00a0 But I do now.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a voiceover narration lesson today, for myself, as a coach. 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