{"id":38,"date":"2012-11-16T03:12:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T03:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2013-07-25T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:33:12","slug":"tips-for-creating-a-character-voice-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/tips-for-creating-a-character-voice-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Creating a Character Voice (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time we discussed developing your character voice we focused on analyzing voice over scripts and helping to possibly flesh out a background story for your character.\u00a0 These things form the base work for your character, but they\u2019re not the end story.\u00a0 A character should be like any real person you know \u2013 full of life and personality.\u00a0 There are two more voice over tips for highlighting the character\u2019s essence for yourself so that your audience can really visualize and connect with it \u2013 and that\u2019s it right there: visualize and connect.\u00a0 If you can visualize, really really picture this character in your head, so can they.\u00a0 If you can connect with this character, really understand what they\u2019re \u201clike\u201d, so can your audience.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First let\u2019s visualize.\u00a0 How could you possibly connect with a character that has no face?\u00a0 No eyes to look into to find the soul?\u00a0 No clothes or perhaps purple skin or metal arms?\u00a0 If your character holds no image for you then how can it contain depth?\u00a0 So get out your pen and paper.\u00a0 Or crayons.\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 After you have read the script, re-read the character\u2019s lines and gotten a sense of\u00a0 style and personality based on the writer\u2019s set-up of this character, sketch the character on paper.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re not Matisse.\u00a0 All that matters is that you\u2019ve given this image some thought based on what you read first.\u00a0 If you portray a character you can\u2019t visualize, it won\u2019t really be portrayed at all.\u00a0 If you portray a character you visualized and sketched, even poorly, you have LIFE now.\u00a0 Something.\u00a0 Anything.\u00a0 Something REAL.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next comes the connection.\u00a0 You can see this character now!\u00a0 Maybe you gave him wide, large eyes to convey innocence.\u00a0 Maybe you gave your character crazy hair that sticks straight up to convey a sense of adventure and a careless, carefree attitude.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope you got these images based on what you inferred from the text you analyzed first.\u00a0 So keep going with that.\u00a0 If you got a sense of what the character looks like from understanding the copy, you should also be able to apply descriptive words to this character.\u00a0 We want to use \u201cactionable adjectives\u201d when listing the character personality: words that can be directly applied to your performance:\u00a0 shy, manic, cheery, sarcastic, ethereal, etc\u2026\u00a0 This is really important, and I will elaborate on this next time (actionable words versus\u2026..all other ideas about how to \u201cdo\u201d the script.)\u00a0 For now, you\u2019ve got your homework.\u00a0 Visualize, connect, and bring something off a piece of paper to life.\u00a0 You can also try and get in the heads of artists that already have it mastered, like none other than the <\/span><\/span><\/span>voice of Disney characters \u201cGoofy\u201d and \u201cPluto.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 All that\u2019s left is <\/span><\/span><\/span>committing to YOUR animation voice<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last time we discussed developing your character voice we focused on analyzing voice over scripts and helping to possibly flesh out a background story for your character.\u00a0 These things form the base work for your character, but they\u2019re not the end story.\u00a0 A character should be like any real person you know \u2013 full of […]<\/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-38","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\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}