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VOICE ACTING Your Homework Assignment For Tonight: How Would YOU Voice That TV Commercial? October 4, 2016  By Dave CourvoisierVoice Actor / TV News Anchor Does anybody watch TV without the DVR running in the background any more? Either way, your homework assignment for tonight is to play back pay a prime-time or prime-time access program, and pay special attention to the commercials. Right. The thing that we all typically fast-forward THROUGH is the very thing I want you to examine with intense scrutiny. Oh! You've heard of this exercise? You've DONE it? Well, when was the last time you tried it? 'Cause if you aren't doing this at least once a month, you might be falling behind trends. CHOOSE YOUR LESSON PLAN Here are a couple of suggestions for your homework: 1. Listen to each ad at least 2-3 times
Why do all this? The spot you see on TV (this works for radio, too), is the audition that won the gig! She/he did SOMETHING right. That talent offered the client or producer something different from the other 99 auditions that came in - OR - that talent had the sound that the client was especially looking for. That talent booked it! When you start to hear that sound on enough spots, then you know it's a sound that may be gaining momentum in the culture THAT WEEK. CAN YOU DO IT, TOO? Can you do that sound? Do you want to do that sound? Should you get some coaching to get that sound? Well, don't get too married to it, 'cause in a couple of months something else will come down the pike. --------------------- ABOUT DAVE
Dave Courvoisier is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, writer, producer, voice actor, and the main weeknight news anchor on KLAS-TV, Channel 8, the Las Vegas CBS affiliate. He also writes Voice-Acting in Vegas, a daily blog of voice over adventures, observations and technology, and is author and publisher of the book, More Than Just A Voice: The Real Secret To VoiceOver Success. And to add wonder to when he might sleep, Dave is also current president of the World-Voices Organization (WoVO), the voice over industry trade association. Email: CourVO@CourVO.com Web: http://www.courvo.com Blog: http://www.courvo.biz More Than Just A Voice: http://courvo.com/more-than-just-a-voice |
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Bobbi Owens
10/5/2016 at 7:21 PM
EXCELLENT article, Dave! I often do this - to the point of course of driving me insane (that's another story!) - especially the Northern Quilted ads - which I auditioned for like 3 times - (still don't get why they picked that VO!) Anyway thanks for the article!
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