{"id":326,"date":"2014-02-20T04:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T04:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2014-02-20T04:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T04:55:46","slug":"voiceover-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/voiceover-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiceover Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two common definitions for INTEGRITY, and both play a role in your voiceover success.\u00a0 The first one is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.\u00a0 The second is the state of being whole, undivided, complete.\u00a0 Both definitions do play a critical role in the successful voiceover audition, but especially the latter.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start with the first \u2013 being honest.\u00a0 In the last blog we talked about Voiceover Authenticity<\/a> and this reinforces or rather foreshadows it\u2019s importance here in discussing the concept of being honest.\u00a0 An \u201cauthentic\u201d performance is honest, in the same way that good acting is.\u00a0 While it may not feel honest to be selling detergent or doughnuts, there is a way to be inside that reality and relate.\u00a0 This is discussed in more detail, so read that blog!\u00a0 Honesty in this universe of commercial advertising is about finding a way to be authentic to the degree you can relate to it as a human being.\u00a0 Don\u2019t see the product.\u00a0 See the writer, the style, the personality behind the script.\u00a0 If it\u2019s wry, honestly connect with the wry side of you.\u00a0 Go back in time to find a moment of wry truth in your past.\u00a0 If it\u2019s written with warmth and sincerity, connect your own life experiences to that.\u00a0 There IS a way to rise above the \u201csell\u201d, and it\u2019s by being an aspect of you that you\u2019ve experienced before that the writer is asking you to be again, now.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing dishonest about that.<\/p>\n

Connecting with the concept of a voiceover script being \u201cwhole\u201d and \u201ccomplete\u201d is a great way to understand what you need to do each and every moment that you\u2019re reading.\u00a0 Understanding the writing is the \u201chonest\u201d part, but delivering that truth \u2013 line by line \u2013 is the part where being whole and complete create integrity in the read.\u00a0 One of the most important things for a \u201ccharacter\u201d performance is to stay IN character from your first breath to your last.\u00a0 Using the term character loosely (to help us explain any personality style that the writer wants the script read in), if you\u2019re supposed to be friendly, warm, and confident in a script means you must be those things in every sentence.\u00a0 If there is one sentence that seems more confident (\u201cNo late fees EVER) then confidence will shine through there more than the warm or friendly aspects.\u00a0 The point is, each sentence is an opportunity for you to make sure this read is complete and whole.\u00a0 If you drop out of character on a sentence, or even a word, then you\u2019ve created a divide in the integrity of this script and of this character.\u00a0 It\u2019s no different from baking bread.\u00a0 If you leave out the yeast, you\u2019re missing a part of the whole.\u00a0 The bread won\u2019t rise.\u00a0 The integrity of the bread is damaged.\u00a0 Be honest, complete the circle the way the writer has drawn it, and \u201craise\u201d your performance to its highest level of integrity.\u00a0 Sorry, can\u2019t resist a good pun opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are two common definitions for INTEGRITY, and both play a role in your voiceover success.\u00a0 The first one is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.\u00a0 The second is the state of being whole, undivided, complete.\u00a0 Both definitions do play a critical role in the successful voiceover audition, but especially the […]<\/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-326","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\/326","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=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}