{"id":56,"date":"2013-01-07T03:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2013-07-24T22:24:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T22:24:30","slug":"voiceover-exercises-from-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/voiceover-exercises-from-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiceover Exercises from the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s be honest, there probably weren\u2019t many voiceover auditions these past few weeks.\u00a0 At least I hope not.\u00a0 I hope that priorities were in order here and people are at least for one week of the year focusing on their families and celebrating, finding their zen, having fun\u2026..right?\u00a0 But you can\u2019t help it, you\u2019re back reading this, which means you\u2019re already thinking about voiceovers again.\u00a0 Oh, wait, I\u2019m busted.\u00a0 So am i.\u00a0 First of all, I don\u2019t do much reading of other blogs, I don\u2019t even do much writing of my own blog! \u2013 but I discovered a guy who organizes them all for you so you don\u2019t have to work too hard.\u00a0 You can come here every week and find blogs written by all sorts of different professionals \u2013 casting directors, voice actors, etc\u2026 Check it out when you\u2019re finding yourself without any auditions this week!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/thevoiceofyourbusiness.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/10-top-voiceover-blog-posts-this-week-2\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Now, the next thing you can do is have some really secretive fun behind everyone\u2019s back.\u00a0 No, this is not in a mean-spirited way, so much as a project you don\u2019t really need to announce to everyone that you are working on.\u00a0 Voiceovers and acting in general demand a greater understanding of ourselves and others.\u00a0 Of human nature and behavior.\u00a0 When you sat down to holiday dinners \u00a0this year, did you take a few moments to study everyone?\u00a0 Observe their speech patterns, their volume and projection, any sounds they make in between words, how fast or slow they speak, how sarcastic or sincere they are and the methods they use to convey those moods?\u00a0 Really listen.\u00a0 Watch.\u00a0 Process.\u00a0 People in your life are most likely a varied cast of characters as diverse as in any play or film, yes?!\u00a0 I know I can instantly drum up half a dozen people in my family that entire books could be written on!\u00a0 Every person is a universe.\u00a0 This is the well upon which you need to replenish your performance thirst on.\u00a0 Voiceover is an art form which more often than not asks you to be not only authentic and believable but also interesting.\u00a0 What better place to do your research than within the convenience of your own home?\u00a0 Or Aunt Edna\u2019s? Hope you all had happy holidays and enjoyed YOUR universes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s be honest, there probably weren\u2019t many voiceover auditions these past few weeks.\u00a0 At least I hope not.\u00a0 I hope that priorities were in order here and people are at least for one week of the year focusing on their families and celebrating, finding their zen, having fun\u2026..right?\u00a0 But you can\u2019t help it, you\u2019re back […]<\/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-56","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\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}