{"id":82,"date":"2013-05-20T04:21:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T04:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-07-22T04:22:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T04:22:35","slug":"voiceover-analysis-means-filling-in-the-blanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/voiceover-analysis-means-filling-in-the-blanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiceover Analysis means filling in the blanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you book a voiceover audition?\u00a0 The answer to this comes way before you read the script out loud.\u00a0 It seems safe to say that a whopping 75% of your chances of booking that voiceover job comes from truly understanding what is happening in the script.\u00a0 This has been said many times before, and we will be focusing a lot on this in the coming months here.\u00a0 Let\u2019s dive right in and take a look at a script:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You have the chance to power your own city.\u00a0 How will you do it?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Energyville from Chevron is an online game that lets you choose<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

from a wide range of energy sources to meet the demands of your<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

own city.\u00a0 Alternatives.\u00a0 Renewables.\u00a0 Oil.\u00a0 Gas.\u00a0 Energyville is a<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

chance to better understand the energy challenges we face, then<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

find the inspiration and know-how to solve them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Put your ideas to work at \u2018will you join us. com\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ok.\u00a0 First things first.\u00a0 You\u2019re first sentence is the make or break.\u00a0 That writer will skip right over your whole take if he doesn\u2019t approve of the foot you lead off on.\u00a0 So what\u2019s going on here?\u00a0 What\u2019s important?\u00a0 Is this about YOU?\u00a0 That might go without saying.\u00a0 There\u2019s a \u201cyou\u201d listening that already assumes that when they hear it.\u00a0 So move on.\u00a0 POWER.\u00a0 CITY.\u00a0 Power a city.\u00a0 Seems to be the point.\u00a0 Again, \u201cyour\u201d is not needed to be punched.\u00a0 It\u2019s assumed.\u00a0 Don\u2019t waste your attention on it.\u00a0 Maybe a little bit on OWN?\u00a0 There are no right answers here.\u00a0 You will never have the writer, or even me, whispering in your ear.\u00a0 You make a choice, any choice, and it\u2019s infinitely better and more human than no choice.\u00a0 These are the questions you start asking yourself of each sentence.\u00a0 Notice words like CHANCE, UNDERSTAND, CHALLENGES, INSPIRATION, KNOW-HOW, SOLVE, IDEAS . . . Most of your answers are here already.\u00a0 These words are not casual.\u00a0 They are words that express importance.\u00a0 They help clue you in to the overall tone of the script and also give you focal points in the sentences for where to punch up your points.\u00a0 They direct your focus emotionally.\u00a0 Now you have something more to DO with this script.\u00a0 Look deeper now.\u00a0 Find some of your own answers and interpretations.\u00a0 This is what will set you apart from the pack.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you book a voiceover audition?\u00a0 The answer to this comes way before you read the script out loud.\u00a0 It seems safe to say that a whopping 75% of your chances of booking that voiceover job comes from truly understanding what is happening in the script.\u00a0 This has been said many times before, and […]<\/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-82","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\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}