Watch That Word Count!
Ok, you’re signed up with voices.com or voice123.com and a new audition is posted with a budget of $1000.00. Looks good to me… until you open the project description. This is someone’s autobiography...
View ArticleYour Voice Over Demo — Think “I Can’t Afford It”? Think Again!
I was talking to one of my students. He had invested in taking my commercial class and showed good potential. He had also purchased the bare equipment needed to record at home. He sent me a MP3 of a...
View Article6 “Musts” for a Pro Voice Over Demo
Your demo is your calling card in the voice over world. It is used by you, casting services, agents and clients to evaluate and market your skills. With the availability of high quality recording...
View ArticleDoes Singing Help with Voiceover?
People come to voice over from a variety of different backgrounds. Some come from the broadcasting world. They bring clear enunciation and solid reading skills. Others come out of on-camera or stage...
View ArticleFluent Reading For Better Voice Over
I’ve been teaching voice overs for twenty years and every student begins with the same declaration: “I can talk and I can read, so I can do this”. One of the first things we discover is that half of...
View ArticleCreate Winning Voice Overs with Your “Non-Verbal Toolkit”
There’s a myth about speech that has been around since the Egyptians invented hieroglyphics. And that myth is that somehow you can take all of speech and condense it down to written words on a piece of...
View ArticleConversational vs Announcer Voice Over Styles
You only need to read through a handful of audition descriptions before you run into the word “conversational”. Or you may find the direction more negative such as “no disc jockey or announcer”. As...
View ArticlePickups Hints for Voice Over Editing
You’ve just finished a 4000 word e-learning voice over project and you send it to the client. They love the interpretation but they tell you that the name that you read is not pronounced Smith but...
View ArticleReading in Voiceover: Improve Your Speed and Accuracy
If you want to turn in faster and better voiceover auditions and jobs then you need to improve your reading skills. If you find yourself halting, stumbling on words, or mis-reading the copy here’s why...
View ArticleAdd Negative Emotions to Your Voice Over Performance
Here’s a quick voice over acting tip. When you’re performing a voice over project you are often instructed to be enthusiastic, or upbeat, or friendly, or, my favorite: have a smile in your voice. Well,...
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