{"id":62,"date":"2013-02-13T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-07-24T22:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T22:13:23","slug":"the-importance-of-not-being-earnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/the-importance-of-not-being-earnest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance Of (not) Being Earnest"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are deft at analyzing voiceover scripts\u00a0 you will notice how many of them really seem to be written with these specs in mind:\u00a0 sarcastic, witty, wry, ironic, with a “wink”, tongue in cheek…..\u2028I think i finally figured out the reason – writers choose this career because to write is to think about things and then convey them to the world.\u00a0 Writers are thinkers.\u00a0 Now granted this is advertising and not Foucault, but a writer is a writer is a writer.\u00a0 They consider themselves “thinkers”, “observers”, and keen ones at that.\u00a0 No judgment here at all.\u00a0 Just noticing this.\u00a0 So if a writer is writing in his own voice, and i believe all writers\u2019 do, then we can assume there is a level of pride coming through.\u00a0 They believe in their ideas enough to write them down and share them with anyone who will listen.\u00a0 To write is to be CLEVER.\u00a0 Cleverness can take its form in sarcasm, wit, irony, and so on and so forth.\u00a0 So this could perhaps be the reason so many scripts are written in this vein.\u00a0 Let’s walk through some options for actually executing that and booking that voiceover audition.\u2028There are subtle hints of wit in voice actor <\/span><\/span><\/span>Anthony Arkin\u2019s voiceover demo<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Just for fun I will tell you that Anthony is one of the sons of award-winning actor Alan Arkin, but lives by no means in his shadow.\u00a0 So to hear his demo first and spot some of those hints of \u201cwinking\u201d could help.\u00a0 Now to do this yourself:\u00a0 try intention first.\u00a0 Your intention when reading a line will be to say it in a way that you don\u2019t mean to be sincere.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if you are saying one thing but your intention is to convey the exact opposite message.\u00a0 Intention can do a lot for a read and is just as much a technique as any other.\u00a0 It might even be the strongest.\u00a0 Next try these other angles:\u00a0 reading the line \u201cout of the side of your mouth\u201d as if you realize you are saying something less than savory, reading the line with a slight snicker (a mischievous laugh), or reading the line and rolling your eyes while you do so.\u00a0 Also, try homing in on the specific word or two that might really dirve home your point or convey that moment of insincerity the best.\u00a0 Connect to your message, above all, and you will be led to the right way of delivering it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are deft at analyzing voiceover scripts\u00a0 you will notice how many of them really seem to be written with these specs in mind:\u00a0 sarcastic, witty, wry, ironic, with a “wink”, tongue in cheek…..\u2028I think i finally figured out the reason – writers choose this career because to write is to think about things […]<\/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-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-over-gurus-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t