Someone Out There Needs To Hear Your Voice.
Chapter 2
Wrong Assumptions About Voice Acting
- ‘My voice is nice, I can be a voice artist.’
- Life: Having a good voice is one thing, but what can you do, what DO you do with that voice? And, actually, the definition of a ‘good voice’ varies per client. It’s not just having a pleasant voice, but a voice that could adapt, emote, and bring scripts to life. It’s not just about reading scripts, it’s about breathing life into the words.
- Love: If you have a smooth voice, but if that voice engages in gossip, what help does that bring? A good voice is not because you sound good. You have a good voice if you have a good heart and if you speak good things. You attract good stuff if you speak good things.
- ‘You need to be good in copying voices.’
- Intention: Again, what do you do with the skill of copying voice? Do you use that skill for good?
- Individuality: It’s easy to copy voices, but again, it takes practice to add life to the words. And the only way to do that is to embrace your own voice.
- ‘There’s an age limit to being a voice artist.’
- Motivation: You could be 8, you could be 60. Why are you doing what you’re doing? Why are you letting young/old age stop you?
- ‘All you need to do is read a script, and you’ll be making money in no time.’
- Transparency: Clients, and people in general hear your heart. We used to say people hear you smile.
Overall, Voice Acting isn’t parroting. Like everything else that has solid rewards, you work for it… and the work starts from the heart.
Requirements For Voice Acting
- Having a good voice
- Being able to read
- Being able to follow instructions
- Willing to invest TEAM (Time, Energy, Ability and Money)
- “Availabililty is the best ability”
- Additional Stuff To Develop
- Creativity And Imagination
- Ability to ‘go crazy’
- You need to be crazy, you should be aware that you WILL look crazy when you do voice acting. Embrace your crazy self.
- Boldness
- Be firm in your mindset, and your headset. Change your perspective of growth and success. If you aren’t confident, how can your clients (or anyone you speak to) be confident in you?
- I’d rather say secure instead of confident.
- Being good at stuff is good, but being good at learning stuff is a whole lot better. Learning is the best skill to have.
- Be firm in your mindset, and your headset. Change your perspective of growth and success. If you aren’t confident, how can your clients (or anyone you speak to) be confident in you?
- Ability to work with others
- It’s not just about working with your clients, directors, etc; It’s also about working with your scripts.
- As much as you add life to the script, understand that the script adds value to you.
- It’s not just about working with your clients, directors, etc; It’s also about working with your scripts.
Never start acting to make money. Start to make a difference, promote it as an art, and create positive social change.
- If you have trouble thinking about making a difference, or taking the first step in making a difference… If you have trouble promoting things as art, and creating positive social change, you ought to understand how differences have made in your own life. Answer: How have you been promoted in the past? How have you experienced positive social change in your life?
- If you’re having trouble answering these questions… start by giving thanks. Thanksgiving unlocks the passion… and the money and all the shiny things will follow.
- Our voices do not have a price… they have value. ‘Hindi porke’t may presyo, may halaga.’
- Speaking for money is so petty. Your voice moves hearts and mountains. The shiny things follow, and even then, they matter less.
Voice Branding
- Build a voice brand – A name that makes sense, a concept.
- Create a brand name, an identity for your voice.
- Why, who, what and how?
- Why are you here, why are you doing this in the first place?
- Who are you? Who are you talking to?
- Who do you have to be to achieve that why?
- What is your name and how does it relate to you?
- How do you plan to make your goals happen?
- Why, who, what and how?
- The UberMouth, UberStimme, The Still, Small Voice
- Who inspires you? – Robin Williams as Genie, James Earl Jones as King Jaffe Joffer / Darth Vader / Mufasa, George Beverly Shea, Christopher Walken, Edward Norton, Denzel Washington, Brian Cox, John Hagee, Charles Stanley, etc.
Don’t follow your dreams. Don’t chase them. Lead them. Unahan mo.
The journey to finding your voice begins by trusting that your voice needs to be heard.
Radio Production
Radio Drama
Inspirational Stuff
The best time to believe in yourself
is when no one believes in you.
TUBE – Stands for Team, United, Bond, Ensemble
What is Radio Drama?
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre) is a dramatised, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story. “It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension.” (Prof Tim Crook, Head of Radio at Goldsmiths University (1999) in Radio Drama: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, p.8)
It’s all about the audio, no component of video. The focus is the sound, not the visuals; it’s auditory.
That’s another myth; Everyone who sounds good actually also looks good. Folks do say, do good, look good and feel good… it also means sound good.
Conceptualizing – What is the story all about? What’s (1) the theme, (2) the setting, and (3) the mood?
The theme: There’s a main theme, and subthemes.
The setting: It’s a little more difficult, or the approach is different from the flexibility of visuals.
The mood: Background music, etc.
Characters – Who are the characters involved in the story?
There are no ‘major’ or ‘minor’ roles in a story. The concept is incomplete if one character is missing, even if it may seem like the most insignificant of characters.
Folks consider the plot before the characters, while others prefer the other way around.
Blue Print – What’s the storyline? What’s the breakdown for each scene? Plot and characters and the concept come together to determine direction.
- Direction – Is it linear? Does it start from the middle? From the end to the beginning?
- Have a system, a scientific approach. Art has its own system.
Script – Writing the material with the concept, characters, blue print established and connected.
- Composition starts with a word, then a sentence, then paragraphs, then chapters…
Casting – Involves (1) auditions, (2) typecasting, and (3) short listing
Recording – Different approaches to this especially nowadays. Involves line-throwing sessions, coaching, etc.
Audio Editing – Involves ‘cleaning’, integration of sound effect and layering.
…All moving toward the Final Output.
In ‘reading’ the script, you take in the concept, the characters, and the plot.
But do you end with the Final Output? There are other factors to consider:
- Time – Schedule and availability of your personnel/studio, Duration of the project and each portion.
- Logistics naturally complement creative work.
- Feasibility – Assets/Material, Accessibility – It has to make sense. It has to be believable.
- Helps to know the story behind the story.
- Cast – Capability, Accessibility, Willingness
- Availability is the best ability
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