{"id":26,"date":"2012-10-23T03:03:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T03:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2013-07-25T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:47:52","slug":"the-insane-voice-over-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/the-insane-voice-over-read\/","title":{"rendered":"The Insane Voice Over Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albert Einstein may have understood voice over technique himself when he defined Insanity as \u201cdoing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.\u201d\u00a0 Peter Pamela Rose of <\/span><\/span><\/span>Acting Business Boot Camp<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, however, recently reminded me of this genius quote.\u00a0 Thanks PPR.\u00a0 So \u2013 are you insane?\u00a0 If you feel like you might be in a voiceover rut and needing a new game plan, start by identifying your own insanity (mindless repetition), and then move towards a way of correcting it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Start by recording yourself reading the same script several times in a row.\u00a0 Do you notice any patterns being set up in these performances?\u00a0 Are you always pausing after a specific word?\u00a0 Are you always going up in your inflection at the start of a certain sentence?\u00a0 It\u2019s time to break that up and shake it up.\u00a0 You need to literally force yourself to read it differently each time, if only as an exercise in exploration and flexibility.\u00a0 I often refer to using the <\/span><\/span><\/span>3-in-a-row voiceover technique<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> when people are trying to find a specific exercise for getting out of that stuck-in-the-mud pattern.\u00a0 I find that when students are reading the script the exact same way over and over again, that this technique works wonders.\u00a0 They isolate single sentence, examine where the importance is, put emphasis on it, and then try putting that emphasis across in three different ways using inflection and articulation changes, and even pausing and pacing changes.\u00a0 You might find your way back to the same read you were doing in the first place and decide it\u2019s the best choice \u2013 but now you will at least KNOW it\u2019s the best choice by comparison.\u00a0 Using this technique will push you outside of your comfort zone, and that\u2019s one of the best ways to create new strategies, new styles, new ways of refreshing your game.\u00a0 If you fall into patterns too consistent, too comfortable, they can be stifling, and at their worst, can put you on robotic autopilot mode \u2013 which ultimately makes it sound like you are reading words of paper instead of speaking naturally and off the cuff.\u00a0 Give this exercise a try, and find your sanity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Albert Einstein may have understood voice over technique himself when he defined Insanity as \u201cdoing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.\u201d\u00a0 Peter Pamela Rose of Acting Business Boot Camp, however, recently reminded me of this genius quote.\u00a0 Thanks PPR.\u00a0 So \u2013 are you insane?\u00a0 If you feel like you might […]<\/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-26","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\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}