{"id":173,"date":"2012-05-21T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2021-11-26T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:58:09","slug":"voiceover-technique-tools-for-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/voiceover-technique-tools-for-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiceover Technique: Tools for Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Voiceover technique and your ultimate success in this pursuit can depend on so many things, as it resides inside a complex and also very subjective industry.\u00a0 However, there is one universal key to master \u00a0if you are to be successful in this business that truly cannot be avoided, and that is sounding authentic.\u00a0 No one trusts a phony, in commercials, or in life for that matter.\u00a0 Authenticity can be achieved through many means, and since this is a blog and not an e-book (yet!), here are just a few important tips on how to get there:<\/div>\n<div>1. \u00a0Script analysis:\u00a0 the number one most important path to sounding authentic. Voiceover technique 101 encompasses understanding the script through understanding the writer\u2019s intentions.\u00a0 This begins by reading the script over many times until you \u201cget\u201d it, in the same way you \u201cget\u201d a story.\u00a0 Is it a romance, an adventure, etc?\u00a0 What is the mood of the script?\u00a0 Look at the word choices, the adjectives, etc\u2026..all the keys are there to unlock the mystery of what \u201ckind\u201d of script it is.\u00a0\u00a0 When you have a grasp on the script\u2019s style, you might also have a grasp on the style of delivery that you, the \u201cvoice\u201d, are expected to have.<\/div>\n<div>2. \u00a0Write down three adjectives that describe how YOU are going to sound while reading this script.\u00a0 You base this on what you garnered from your analysis.\u00a0 Examples:\u00a0 warm, strong, sarcastic, intimate, sincere, caring, wry, bubbly, confident.\u00a0 Once you ask yourself to do this you are now one step closer to reading with authenticity, and not just \u201creading words off paper.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>3. \u00a0Go through every single line in the script, and allow yourself the space to understand what the POINT is that\u2019s being made.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t do this, once again you are only going to sound like you are just reading words off a piece of paper.\u00a0 If you understand the points you are trying to make, and that every single sentence has a purpose, that\u2019s GREAT \u2013 now underline those words that demonstrate your point.\u00a0 Example \u2013 \u201cColors can really affect us.\u201d\u00a0 What can really affect you?\u00a0 Colors.\u00a0 Underline colors.\u00a0 What can colors do?\u00a0 Affect.\u00a0 Underline affect.\u00a0 Now try reading the sentence out loud and put extra emphasis on those words.\u00a0 Try the line just emphasizing one of those words.\u00a0 Then try it emphasizing just the other word.\u00a0 Try it again emphasizing both.\u00a0 Decide which way makes the most sense, which sounds like you are connected to the point you are making.\u00a0 This is your most \u201cauthentic\u201d version of the sentence.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voiceover technique and your ultimate success in this pursuit can depend on so many things, as it resides inside a complex and also very subjective industry.\u00a0 However, there is one universal key to master \u00a0if you are to be successful in this business that truly cannot be avoided, and that is sounding authentic.\u00a0 No one [&hellip;]<\/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-173","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\/173","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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}