Tag: Training
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Sexy, Party of One?
When I voice a character, when I get on a stage, when I write dialog, my choices are informed by the intention I choose to put behind them. If I forget to choose, the output is bad.
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Notes From The Studio Audience: Conflicting Direction
I took a short break from recording The Death in the Drink to do some industrial recording; Updates to training videos I voiced last year. After book chapters that take between 10 – 40 minutes to record, often with three to ten voices per chapter, the “micro-clips” of content seemed SO EASY. I just had to “make them…
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Trust the Process. Follow the Process. Do NOT skip any step in the process.
In my work-life, I continue to learn the difference between an amateur voice actor and a professional one. Amateurs may “know” what to do, but haven’t repeated the process enough times (or recently enough) to do a task without a checklist, cheat sheet, or laborious pre-work. Professionals have gone through the process so frequently and fastidiously that…