Hearing versus listening and Anchoring voice over styles

Hearing versus listening.

There’s a big difference between hearing something and truly listening to it. Before you start working in voice over’s and you have never really listened to the ads on the radio they just kind of played in the background while they waited for the next song to come on. But, once you became more aware of them you will start noticing just how many opportunities there are for voice over’s. You’ve even gotten to the point where I can sometimes identify a particular person’s voice that its like you’ve heard before.

When you hear an ad that I particularly like or that sounds close to your voice and you try and mimic it. After your first voice over you just urge you to start paying more attention to the ads on the radio and TV or videos you see online how many of them use a voiceover artist. Do you notice any particular trends in the types of voices you’re hearing and most importantly where there any of those jobs that you feel like you could have done well.

Anchoring accents and voiceover styles

Anchoring styles is very important style to be consistent throughout a script on a short script is quite easy to have a voice in the head indicate that voice throughout the delivery end. For an audio book and sometimes you will have a very long one iota Charles Dickens one great expectations 19 hours please Christmas carols bad enough 3:00 hours so you got various characters throughout so if you go to a voice full of hot. So always keep a sample of the best part of your voice for audio books.

But everything else how he anchored the voice say on a character voice or particularly an accent. Well, you keep in mind a picture all who you’re trying to sound like even though you’re not an impersonator you may be a very good impersonating which case fantastic or you may be in the style of a famous character counts in character and actor from a movie or something like that you just keep that picture in your head and that’s a way of anchoring the sound.

The character will this help you to anchor a particular voice style or an accent throughout the duration of the voiceover. What we’re talking about anchoring accents and voiceover styles.

One very important style that you need to get into is yourself which kind of sound strange is very easy to slip into an announcer voice when it’s not needed and this is one of the questions you need to ask your client at the very early stage you get a script you offer the style and sometimes they say no. Because, they just want you to be the average guy next door which is absolutely fine but it’s so easy to slip into the announcer voice.

Character voices.

Character voices are generally used to get personality to animated characters. However they’re not confined to that specific genre. Character voices can also do audio only projects such as commercials are audio books. Character voices require more acting muscles than standard narration one. Character voice is a fun, creative and long running gig. The one thing that prevents most voice talent from doing authentic character voices is the fear of looking silly. As soon as you get over that you can let yourself go and really develop your characters. So have fun and be silly.