{"id":28,"date":"2012-10-16T03:05:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T03:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2013-07-25T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:50:17","slug":"voiceover-technique-its-all-in-the-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/voiceover-technique-its-all-in-the-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiceover Technique: It’s all in the Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes voice over technique is not about your acting skills, as important as they are.\u00a0 It\u2019s about your grasp on timing, pacing, the sense of natural flow that comes when you speak conversationally in your own life.\u00a0 If you can stay PRESENT during your performance, you can and will notice whether your pacing is forced or natural.\u00a0 If you are super-focused on making those words nice and perfect sounding you will lose your sense of natural timing because you are now caught up in doing something <\/span><\/span>not natural<\/i><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t pay attention to making words sound perfect (whatever that means) in real life, we shouldn\u2019t do it in our voiceover reads, unless called for specifically.\u00a0 But in training, we do need to pay attention to our pacing, or you will be called out on your \u201cperforming.\u201d\u00a0 So what about \u201cpacing\u201d specifically?…..<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pacing can entail a few things here.\u00a0 It can refer to the general speed or lack thereof with which you are going at while reading copy.\u00a0 This would apply to the whole script.\u00a0 It can also refer to amount of pause you apply in-between each and every sentence.\u00a0 How little or how much can greatly affect whether you sound like you are being conversational or whether you sound like you are reading words of a piece of paper.\u00a0 So what is that \u201cright amount\u201d of pause?\u00a0 Getting it right is crucial but it often can mean getting a professional to give you feedback. \u00a0Take advantage of <\/span><\/span><\/span>Voiceover Guru\u2019s Free Consult<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> to hear where you are at with your own timing.\u00a0 You can also listen to some of the <\/span><\/span><\/span>voice over demos at Voicebank<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> to hear how the pros do it.\u00a0 It really is a \u201cshaving hairs\u201d sort of thing.\u00a0 If I had to apply some sense of application to it in words it would be this:\u00a0 The amount of pause you should have between sentences and also for drama between words inside of the sentence is very short.\u00a0 It should be just enough to convey a break in the idea, AND NOT A DROP MORE.\u00a0 In voice overs, dead air is dead air, so have a good reason to use that little bit.\u00a0 You also want to be aware that even though you might be tightening your pace a bit, you MUST give resolution to the ends of each sentence before moving on.\u00a0 Otherwise, you will sound like you are rushing.\u00a0 All of this IS a skill, and requires a lot of practice.\u00a0 If you need help, don\u2019t be afraid to coach with a <\/span><\/span><\/span>Voiceover Guru<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes voice over technique is not about your acting skills, as important as they are.\u00a0 It\u2019s about your grasp on timing, pacing, the sense of natural flow that comes when you speak conversationally in your own life.\u00a0 If you can stay PRESENT during your performance, you can and will notice whether your pacing is forced […]<\/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-28","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\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}