{"id":95,"date":"2012-07-15T04:32:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T04:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2013-07-25T14:07:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T14:07:01","slug":"voiceover-magic-the-3-in-a-row-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/voiceover-magic-the-3-in-a-row-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Voiceover Magic: The “3-in-a-row” Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spend a lot of time having voiceover students focus on finding their own inner \u201cmagic.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> is a great resource for tapping into your own inner “magic.”\u00a0 Everyone has it, and I can see it in every single person I meet.\u00a0 The problem is that for some reason it all disappears (like magic!) once they start \u201creading.\u201d\u00a0 Yes, reading copy can be a dry and sterile affair if you let it.\u00a0 Students can get caught up in the idea that they\u2019re reading, and try to do it perfectly.\u00a0 This sounds \u201cread.\u201d\u00a0 They can also get caught up in the fact that they\u2019re trying to make it interesting, and this usually winds up sounding \u201cover the top\u201d when done the wrong way.\u00a0 There is a way to sound both natural and interesting\u00a0 and I am going to show you in 3 easy steps.\u00a0\u00a0 Or one, depending on how you look at it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There might be about 60 seconds of copy that you are dealing with, and trying to make it all sound authentic and intriguing all at once can be overwhelming.\u00a0 I advise students to minimize that overwhelm by reducing the script to one sentence.\u00a0 Or two.\u00a0 In general, the first and last sentences are the most important.\u00a0 The first sentence can be the make or break moment where the writer\/producer chooses to keep listening to your audition or not.\u00a0 The last sentence will be what they remember you by.\u00a0 The best way to find your best read for these sentences it to do the sentence a few times in a row out loud.\u00a0 Then and only then will you find, by isolating the sentence, that you can vary your takes on it and find the best one.\u00a0 When done with the rest of the spot you don\u2019t experiment with it and it can sound bland and just lumped in with the rest of the read.\u00a0 Isolating and playing with a line lets you explore different inflection choices, different places to pause, etc.\u00a0 Try it with any sentence you like from any script and notice how you instantly have a better read than you did when you it was read with the rest of the script.\u00a0\u00a0 An instantly better read.\u00a0 Or three reads, for that matter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spend a lot of time having voiceover students focus on finding their own inner \u201cmagic.\u201d\u00a0The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is a great resource for tapping into your own inner “magic.”\u00a0 Everyone has it, and I can see it in every single person I meet.\u00a0 The problem is that for some reason it all […]<\/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-95","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\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}