Breaking Down the Delivery Components
Lesson 7 from: Voice-Over for Real People: Complete Freelancing GuideKeith Harris
Breaking Down the Delivery Components
Lesson 7 from: Voice-Over for Real People: Complete Freelancing GuideKeith Harris
Lessons
Welcome to the world of Voice Over
1Introduction
02:13What Is Voice Over?
2Myth Busting
03:17 3Where is all the money?
02:54 4Quiz: What Is Voice Over
The Voice Over Performance
5A Conversation With One Person
03:34Vocal Warm Up
03:43 7Breaking Down the Delivery Components
04:21 8Nailing the Feel
04:55 9Hitting or Noticing Words
03:28 10Becoming an Actor
03:26 11The Magic of Lists
04:34 12Five Key Characters
04:03 13Tongue Twisters
04:19 14Mic Technique and Studio Etiquette
01:44 15Quiz: Voice Over Performance
Case Studies
16Education in Mauritius
03:12 17The Ventsar ColorTouch
06:04 18Dodge Maps
04:16 19Quiz: case Studies
The Home Studio
20Check List
02:46 21Microphones
06:34 22Preamps
02:51 23Finishing the Check List
04:33 24Creating Your Recording Space
04:57 25Sound Proof Booths
03:34 26Quiz: Home Studio
Closing
27Practice and Review
02:58 28Quiz: Closing
Recording and Editing
29Live Recording Session
10:01 30Adding Music
06:41 31Placing Audio into a Video
06:10 32Extra Services
04:23 33Quiz: Recording & Editing
Making a Demo
34Your Demo is your Business Card
05:48 35Designing your Demo
02:30 36Recording Your Demo
03:25 37Quiz: Making a Demo
Self Employment
38Customer Service
04:37 39Expectations and Delivery
03:57 40Storage and Organization
03:31 41Gig Photo and the Fiverr Forum
03:56 42Quiz: Self Employment
Vocal Health
43Water and Sleep
04:15 44Recording When Sick
04:17 45Quiz: Vocal Health
Staying Motivated
46Setting Goals
02:52 47Daily Schedule and Fiverr Forum
04:06 48Nerves
02:52 49Bonus Vocal Exercises
03:57 50Take a Break
01:51 51Quiz: Staying Motivated
Final Quiz
52Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Breaking Down the Delivery Components
now that we've warmed up the voice and read from the heart. We're going to get a bit more technical about the components of a voiceover delivery. Knowing this information will help you stay coachable, flexible and keep your reads more interesting often in a session for example, I'll have a client say that sounded great. Give me one more take the client of course doesn't want me to deliver the exact same read again. They're asking for one more take so that they have different options to choose from. Understanding and practicing these delivery components will make giving an effective 2nd, 3rd or even fourth read enjoyable for you and your client, There are two overarching components to a voiceover delivery, your technique which is a combination of speed, pitch and volume and your emotional delivery, which is how your read makes the listener feel for this lesson. We're going to concentrate on speed, volume and pitch. Each item is exactly like it sounds speed, is how slow or fast you talk ...
volume is, how loud or soft you talk and pitch is, how high or how low you can make your voice go when you're talking. All of these concepts seem pretty simple. The tricky part when it comes to voiceover is that we have to learn to change one single item independently of the others. Think of it like having a three slider mixing box in front of you, each with its own title, speed, volume and pitch on the mixing box, you could slide one item up without moving the others and this is exactly what a really good voiceover artist learns to do and why is this important? Let's take an example where you're doing an excited read. This might mean you read fast, loud and in a high pitched voice. Maybe the client says, wow, I love your energy. Can you just slow it down a touch? So the client wants loud and high pitched? But if in slowing down your read, you also lose volume and you lower your pitch. Now the read becomes completely different and it's not what the client is asking for. So some examples might be car sales, the obvious read might be fast, loud and high. But what if the client asks for fast, soft and high? Let's take a healthcare script. You might start medium warm and neutral. Quite often when I read for healthcare scripts, the client says, oh, that's perfect. Now can you just slow it down a touch. My job is to slow it down without losing the energy they already enjoy. Or maybe you're doing a commercial for Harley Davidson or a motorcycle. So you'd speak slow, strong and low. And they might say, let's do that slightly faster, a little softer and just a touch lower in your practice material is a number of exercises to try, but let's do one together first. We're going to use a very simple sentence every day. Bill takes his dog to the park. Let's try this three different ways. Let's first try high, fast and loud everyday. Bill takes his dog to the park. Now I suggest pausing the video and you try it. Hey, great work. Now let's try one that's high, slow in medium. Our voice will be just as high, but we're going to slow it down a touch and read more like in a regular person voice every day. Bill takes his dog to the park. Now you try now we're gonna mix it up even more and try low fast in medium. Like we're telling somebody a big secret every day. Bill takes his dog to the park. Now you try it, excellent work, continue working on these skills and you'll be delivering scripts to clients like a seasoned pro in no time in the next lesson, we'll discuss the other aspect of technique, the emotional delivery, how your read makes the clients feel. See you soon.
Class Materials
Bonus Materials with Purchase
Ratings and Reviews
Joe Wiese
Keith Harris is an amazing teacher. His coarse is timeless. Thank you Keith. Please come up with another coarse.