{"id":178,"date":"2012-05-02T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2013-07-24T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:47:07","slug":"the-tao-of-voiceover-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/the-tao-of-voiceover-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tao of Voiceover Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"
Voiceover coaching challenges me all the time to find new and creative ways of teaching students how to access their best instincts.\u00a0 I find many books that have helped me offer my students something more than just the standard voice over strategies.\u00a0 I referred to voiceover strategy<\/a> via The Artist\u2019s Way a few weeks back but that was just one of the many goodies. \u00a0\u00a0I was looking back at my book collection and came across one i saved because i knew i would be using it again someday for reference, i just knew it.\u00a0 Validation!\u00a0 The book is called The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff.\u00a0 It’s a gem.\u00a0 It converts the writings of Pooh and his pals to something much deeper, or perhaps it already was that deep and insightful, and this book is just clarifying that for us better.\u00a0 I am constantly trying to get my students to stop being so analytical and to start just BEING instead.\u00a0 The constant criticism, especially when it comes during the actual performance, can actually hinder a performance in many ways.\u00a0 Students will start self-censoring during a read and stop in the middle!\u00a0\u00a0 What is happening here is they\u2019re thinking, \u201cI just said that word too soft,\u201d or \u201cI didn\u2019t emphasize that point enough.\u201d\u00a0 The problem with this analysis DURING the read is that the student is then attached to the read as a performance and they are \u201cbeing\u201d that person with those ideas.\u00a0 The listener wants to hear emotional attachment to the words, nothing more.\u00a0 So I look to The Tao of Pooh for guidance.\u00a0 I tell my students all the time, think first, but then just be.\u00a0 Or perhaps switch it around \u2013 Do first, think later.\u00a0 Either way, over thinking a script during the script is no good.\u00a0 It\u2019s just more fun to hear this from Pooh, though, don\u2019t you think?<\/div>\n
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\u201cRabbit\u2019s clever,\u201d\u00a0 said Pooh thoughtfully.<\/div>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d \u00a0said Piglet, \u201cRabbit\u2019s clever.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAnd he has a brain.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d\u00a0 said Piglet,\u00a0 \u201cRabbit has Brain.\u201d<\/div>\n
There was a long silence.<\/div>\n
\u201cI suppose,\u201d\u00a0 said Pooh, \u201cthat that\u2019s why he never understands anything.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voiceover coaching challenges me all the time to find new and creative ways of teaching students how to access their best instincts.\u00a0 I find many books that have helped me offer my students something more than just the standard voice over strategies.\u00a0 I referred to voiceover strategy via The Artist\u2019s Way a few weeks back […]<\/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-178","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\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}