Naturally there are many differences in doing Voice Over work in comparison to Scene Study, however, I was surprised to find how many similarities there were as well. In voice over you have to do a lot of the same Character work as you do in Scene Study. In our first weeks we were doing 8 tones of selling for Commercial Voice Over, which was a lot of fun. Now we’ve moved on to narration where I’m finding I have to apply lots of the same methods that I use in Scene Study.
The sound of a lie resonates different in someone’s voice then the truth, so as a voice over actor I have to make the audience hear truth in what I say without seeing my face. We were given Joker monologues as an assignment and had to personalize them, this was very difficult to do because you need to come across as unique, and for me I couldn’t get out of that joker voice, that heath ledger so wonderfully created. After 3 classes we had written bios and the Who, What, Where, When, Want of our unique jokeresque characters. We did our homework and created a separate life. But it was when we used a sense memory exercise and applied the breathing and microphone techniques we were taught that we able to extract an extremely personal and unique voice. Every one of my classmates came out of the booth that day with a proud smile. Including myself.
I love going into the recording booth because I am encouraged to use my voice both in strength and in heart. In life we don’t always get the opportunity to be as loud, as passionate and as fiery as we want to be. In the booth we can reach for our highest levels and then learn to adapt them. It is very freeing.
written by: Dylan Padgett
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