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So many voice over tips to go around and many of them are quite sophisticated.\u00a0 There are nuances to the voice over performance that any good coach will explain to their student and ultimately see the shock on their faces, or the confusion.\u00a0 These techniques are complex and essential, things that no one has thought about doing in their ordinary every day conversation. But this voice over tip is quite simple.\u00a0 So simple that it too manages to surprise the student by its simplicity.\u00a0 It\u2019s a <\/span><\/span>smile<\/i><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 Shocking right?\u00a0 Well, what is even more shocking is how often the beginning voice over artist forgets that most basic act.\u00a0 And most crucial.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, there is a fine line with smiling that needs to be explained.\u00a0 Too little smile and you are in danger of sounding serious, unfriendly, or worse \u2013 like you are reading words off a piece of paper.\u00a0 Too much smile and you can sound like you are \u201cselling\u201d, trying too hard to convince us of something.\u00a0 Too much smile can also irritate the ears!\u00a0 (it\u2019s an inflection thing\u2026..)\u00a0 But more often than not the beginner can use a little more.\u00a0 The reason is that the beginner takes this work very seriously, this act of reading.\u00a0 They are concentrating with all their might on those words, and saying them perfectly.\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s gonna sound phoney too isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 That\u2019s what we call \u201cannouncery.\u201d\u00a0 There is still a call for that style of performance, but more often than not these days the trend is conversational.\u00a0 Reminding yourself to smile takes some of the focus off making those words \u201cperfect\u201d and adding back the \u201cyou\u201d to the read.\u00a0 The smile, just a bit of it, humanizes the read.\u00a0 Super simple, almost like breathing, but amazing how oft forgotten.\u00a0 For an example of how the smile transforms the read to make it sound more relaxed and confident, click on the commercial voiceover demo on the website of <\/span><\/span><\/span>voice over pro Jessica Wachsman<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So many voice over tips to go around and many of them are quite sophisticated.\u00a0 There are nuances to the voice over performance that any good coach will explain to their student and ultimately see the shock on their faces, or the confusion.\u00a0 These techniques are complex and essential, things that no one has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-over-gurus-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}