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VOICE-OVER SKILLS TRAINING
Key elements covered in this course:
• Finding your voice and style.
• Finding the balance between natural speech and enunciation so that you can be larger than life.
• An understanding of what is required to be a professional voice over artist
• Knowing your material: textual analysis
• Posture techniques when delivering voice overs which allows you to be more animated.
• Voice health: your voice is your instrument.
• Writing and Simplifying a script makes it clearer and easier to understand too.
• Eliminating hesitation in the form of umm, ahh and uhh.
• Using modulation in Radio and TV Commercials regarding soft, medium and hard sell
• Commercials: hard sell, soft sell, deep sell.
• Commentaries: financial, investigative, wildlife, educational, medical, travel, sport, the arts, technical, modern documentary (computer games);
• Other: on hold messages, website video’s, podcast intros and outros, sponsorship messages and DJ drops, audio books.
• Breathing: practice taking silent breaths, working the microphone to hide the breaths and pacing sentence delivery to conceal them.
The job of a voice-over artist is to make the voices jump off the page. This course introduces you to various voice-over scripts which present different demands. It is important that you identify the various voice-over scripts in order to approach them in a creative and intelligent manner, which satisfies the needs of the client.