{"id":32,"date":"2012-10-01T03:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T03:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2013-07-25T13:54:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:54:51","slug":"great-voice-over-resource-your-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/great-voice-over-resource-your-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Voice Over Resource: Your Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great voice over resource is right there in your house already.\u00a0 Your mirror.\u00a0 Look into the mirror while you are reading voiceover copy and see a universe of reaction and emotion.\u00a0 You want to make sure that you are conveying your intentions with purpose, clarity, and conviction, and this is where the mirror comes in handy.\u00a0 In the beginning, voice over students can have a big disconnect with the intention of the script.\u00a0 They are so focused on reading those words on that paper professionally, and clearly, that they turn into robots.\u00a0 The mirror will take you to a deeper human level with your delivery.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First you need scripts.\u00a0 If you <\/span><\/span><\/span>click here for voiceover scripts<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>,<\/a> you will find an underlined link in the middle of the page on the left side that will provide you with a download for some short scripts that are perfect for memorizing.\u00a0 Take a close look at one of the scripts first.\u00a0 Look at the words the writer chose to use.\u00a0 Try and understand the style he is asking you to read in based on how it was written.\u00a0 Is it a sarcastic tone, a sincere one, an upbeat and energetic tone?\u00a0 When you are clear on the style and mood of the voiceover script, use your wonderful new voice over resource to confirm that you are delivering the copy in this way.\u00a0 Read it once.\u00a0 Pay attention to what your face was doing.\u00a0 Was your face telling the same story that the script was?\u00a0 Read it again and make sure it is.\u00a0 Then again.\u00a0 If the script calls for friendly there should be a twinkle in your eye, a smile on your mouth, raised cheekbones\u2026.If that voice over script seems intelligent and sophisticated perhaps a bit more serious of an expression is called for, but even then so make sure your muscles are relaxed.\u00a0 You still want to come across relaxed and natural, and confident.\u00a0 There\u2019s a face for every emotion, so use them, and see the difference.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A great voice over resource is right there in your house already.\u00a0 Your mirror.\u00a0 Look into the mirror while you are reading voiceover copy and see a universe of reaction and emotion.\u00a0 You want to make sure that you are conveying your intentions with purpose, clarity, and conviction, and this is where the mirror comes […]<\/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-32","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\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}