Hitting or Noticing Words
Lesson 9 from: Voice-Over for Real People: Complete Freelancing GuideKeith Harris
Hitting or Noticing Words
Lesson 9 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
Hitting or Noticing Words
we've already discussed speed and the impact changing the talking speed can have on your performance. A great subset of speed is elongation. This can also be called hitting or I prefer noticing a word in the script. It is common in the voiceover industry to use the word hit. Can you hit that word a little more? The issue I have with hit is that it's easy to over strike the word instead. I prefer the word notice or even elongate if we simply notice a word, we can bring it out and still sound natural in our read. Elongation is also a great idea because you might actually be changing speed on that one word to bring it out. For example, if you are reading at a medium pace, you might elongate a word by slowing down on just that one word. I have a fun exercise you can use with any sentence to practice elongation. This exercise is also great for keeping fresh and changing up your reads. Sometimes a client will ask for three different options for example, and this exercise will make sure that ...
those three options all sound slightly different. Let's go back to our basic practice sentence every day. Bill takes his dog to the park. Your job is to read the sentence monotone. Try that first. No special words stick out and the speed is totally neutral. This is basically a non emotional read. Don't worry, I'll show you why in a moment. Try this. Now, every day Bill takes his dog to the park. Very good. Now we're going to elongate one word in the sentence while keeping the rest of the sentence monotone. One word gets elongated or noticed or has special emotion and the rest of the sentence stays the same. We'll start with the first word, then the second word, then the third word and so on until every word in the sentence gets its turn at being elongated. I think you'll be surprised at how different this sentence sounds based on which word is noticed. I'll do one and then you repeat and then pause the video and finish the sentence. Every day. Bill takes his dog to the park. Every day Bill takes his dog to the park. Every day. Bill takes his dog to the park every day. Bill takes his dog to the park if you haven't done so yet. I recommend stopping the video here and practicing the rest of this sentence as well as any others from your practice material separating these skills as we're doing in this course is like exercise at the gym. You might work on a specific muscle at the gym, but you don't worry about that muscle when you're walking around town you let that work sink in on its own. So practicing these voiceover scales separately is very much the same, spend time becoming fluent with these exercises and then when you go to read for a client, you'll be surprised how you practice time will automatically influence your reads in the next lesson. We're going to discuss what it means to be an actor.
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