{"id":78,"date":"2013-04-17T04:17:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2013-07-24T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:57:36","slug":"voiceover-for-those-coveted-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/voiceover-for-those-coveted-audiobooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiceover for those coveted Audiobooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many voiceover students are quite attracted to the idea of doing audiobooks.\u00a0 There are many genres of voiceover out there, including: commercial, narration, corporate, promos, trailers, video games . . . and the list goes on.\u00a0 But books \u2013 we all read them, or have at least in the past (tsk tsk), so it only seems natural to feel less intimidated by reading one out loud.\u00a0 Well, not so fast.\u00a0 First, hear what <\/span><\/span><\/span>award-winning voiceover actress Tara Sands<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> has to say about what it entails:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s really more of an acting job than a voice over job\u00a0 and the amount if time it takes really depends on how you are recording (straight record vs punch and roll), how many mistakes you make, and how much research you have to do on the book (pronunciations of names, towns, scientific or medical words, etc).\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And she\u2019s right, with a few small exceptions like perhaps non-fiction.\u00a0 Classic novels are going to require the dynamic actor to easily and seamlessly transition from a neutral voice to a character, and back and forth as such for the entire book.\u00a0 The acting chops as well as the endurance level of the performer are crucial here.\u00a0 Breathing technique needs to be mastered as well.\u00a0 (Try counting the beats on your inhalation, and doubling that when you exhale.\u00a0 The \u201ctechnique\u201d part comes with controlling those seconds you exhale and release your storage of oxygen.\u00a0 In through the nose, out through the mouth.\u00a0 Do 5 minutes every day)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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And to further underscore the level of emotion and acting involved in doing many audio books, this review on one of Tara\u2019s many works:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe excels at portraying the world-weariness and suspicion, not to mention the heartache and longing, that is Victoria.\u00a0 She was able to capture the contradictions in Victoria\u2019s character, the fragility under her crusty veneer. . .\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That takes chops.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For those of you attracted to this type of voiceover work, I encourage you to find a local acting class in your area as your first level of training.\u00a0 Really quiz those instructors before committing to see if they put some of their attention towards understanding the text, as opposed to just focusing on all the \u201cmethod\u201d work and emoting\u00a0 You need all parts to make it whole.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And keep reading.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many voiceover students are quite attracted to the idea of doing audiobooks.\u00a0 There are many genres of voiceover out there, including: commercial, narration, corporate, promos, trailers, video games . . . and the list goes on.\u00a0 But books \u2013 we all read them, or have at least in the past (tsk tsk), so it only […]<\/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-78","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\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}