Starting today, we will give you a tip about the art of Voice Over acting every Monday morning!
This is our first VO Tip!
This is a simple way to determine the difference between a simple “voice-over” and a “voice-acting” performance
A Voice-over performance meet one or more of the following:
1) It sounds like you a reading a script.
2) The objective is to “sell” something.
3) The content tends to be loaded with information and no emotional content.
4) The effect of the message is to create “listener tune-out”.
A Voice-Acting performance has ALL of the following characteristics:
1) A character is created and the performer created the feeling of a conversation.
2) The objective is to “tell a story” so the listener relates in an emotional level and to keep the listeners attention.
3) The message is emotional and has a focus.
We are pleased to have HGTV Design Star David Bromstad, recording promos and Vo’s for the new season of the TV series Urban Oasis. He is known for his endless energy and out-of-the-box thinking. David creates awe-inspiring works on many platforms he combines this approach with a love of color and practical advice that shows viewers how to transform tired rooms into unique, vibrant spaces in his weekly series Color Splash.
Check him out: http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv74/
It is well known that voice-overs for film previews have been almost exclusively performed by men. Don LaFontaine, American voice actor famous for recording more than 5,000 film trailers, and hundred of thousands of TV advertisements, video game trailers, became known for his “In a world….” phrase, he poked fun of his cliche phrase at various events, including the Geico commercial.
In A World, three words genetically, male oriented, and not uttered by a woman in a movie trailer. Until now, where Lake Bell makes her writing-directing debut, as well as leads the cast in…. “In A World” the winner of Best Screenplay at Sundance.
This upcoming movie is all about an actress trying to make it in the voiceover business. Motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star with all of the trials and tribulations that come with her career. She sets out to change the voice of a generation.
The title somewhat refers to the intro that begins so many trailers for movies set in the future. The man who has undoubtedly uttered these words more than anyone else was Don LaFontaine, who over the past 25 years cemented his position as the “King of Voice-overs.” Aside from his continuing work in the trailer industry, he has also been the voice of NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and UPN, in addition to TNT, TBS and the Cartoon Network. Based on contracts signed, he has the distinction of being perhaps the single busiest actor in the history of SAG. In September 1st, 2008, La Fontaine died at the age of 68 following complications from a collapsed lung.
Offering an amusing peek into a seldom-visited corner of showbiz, this movie could kick up some theatrical returns with judicious handling and the help of smartly nurtured word-of-mouth.
In a World opens in limited release on August 9.
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