#TopTipTuesday
Every Tuesday, check my blog for tips and tricks that assist voice actors, vocalists, public speakers, spoken word poets and the like.
Today's #TopTipTuesday Tip: Take risks, reap rewards!
It's easy to perform "safe" or "standard" voiceover reads. Will they book you the job? Possibly. Possibly not. But when you experiment and take chances in your interpretation of copy, I promise you this: your efforts will be memorable. You still may or may not book the gig, but at least you made a decisive choice in your read that can't go unnoticed.
Plus, the upside of "going too far," is that you can always dial it back and find an interpretative sweet spot. Reminds me of an old golf maxim about putting: " Never up (to the hole), never in." So here's to giving all your audition "putts" a chance!
Recently I sunk a long putt and was selected as a semi-finalist for a voiceover competition in the bowels of the New York Times center in New York City. Wish me luck!
Talking to you live and direct,
