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The Inside VoiceOver Newsletter
September 2004
By Susan Berkley
A Note From Susan:
Click to hear Susan's message of the
month. And by the way, if you can't open or read the HTML links
to the articles, past issues are archived on our website, www.great
voice.com/insidevoiceover.html
Susan’s New Book Is Here!
The revised edition of my book Speak
To Influence is now available. I've added chapters on vocal warm
ups and how to avoid the most commonly mispronounced words, making
this book a MUST HAVE for every voice-over artist. You'll find 7
ways to play your voice like a finely tuned instrument, how to be
a more confident, stress free speaker, and much, much more. Speak
to Influence is available now from your favorite bookseller or to
order your autographed copy, call my office at 800-333-8108. And
by the way, if you like the book, I'd really appreciate a review
on amazon.com.
Read more at www.greatvoice.com/products/speak.html
We Are Expanding Our Voice
Talent Library
The Great Voice Company is expanding
our talent pool. We are now auditioning experienced NON-US ENGLISH
voice talent to record voice messages for phone systems and corporate
narrations in all languages.
If you are a native speaker of a language
other than English and would like to join our team, click the link
below.
Read more here.
You Talkin' to Me?
by Susan Berkley
Voice-over can be one of the oddest
forms of acting. You stand (or sit) alone in a sound proof booth
for hours at a time connected to a director via headphones and microphone.
Sometimes the director can be thousands of miles away. With today’s
remote ISDN technology, you can sit in a studio in New York while
your voice is recorded in California. But one of the oddest things
of all is standing in a sound proof voice booth while the director,
copywriter and engineer talk to each other on the other side of
the sound proof glass. You can see their mouths moving but you can’t
hear a word they say. You start to wonder: are they talking about
ME? They seem to be talking a long time. What could they be saying?
As time passes, your thoughts turn ugly. Maybe they didn’t
like me. Maybe they think I stink. As the minutes tick by, you become
convinced they are talking about how they’re going to get
rid of you and hire someone else. You shift uneasily in your seat.
The voice booth is feeling unbearably hot. All of a sudden the director
presses the talk back button and says "Good job! That’s
a wrap!" You breathe a sigh of relief and step out of the booth.
Everyone is smiling now. You take a
seat behind the engineer and wait while they listen to the playback.
They seem pleased. Several more minutes pass as the engineer edits
the pieces of your various takes together and they call the client
in another city to listen to the finished spot. The client likes
it too.
Then a guy walks into the studio carrying
a paper bag.
That secret conversation that was making
you so nervous? They weren’t talking about you. They were
ordering lunch.
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Are Voice-over Artists Better
Lovers?
by Susan Berkley
Forget all that stuff about having
a face for radio. People with good voices are actually better looking
and have better sex lives than those who don't. So says a new study
conducted by Dr Gordon G Gallup Jr., a psychologist at the State
University of New York at Albany and by Dr Susan Hughes, a professor
at Vassar.
In the study, 149 college students
were asked to record their voices. The recordings were then played
for other students who had never seen them before and the voices
were rated on a scale of 1 (very unattractive) to 5 (very unattractive).
Half the students also completed an anonymous questionnaire about
their sexual history.
The students with the top rated voices were found to be more physically
attractive by conventional standards. The men had broad shoulders
and narrow hips and the women had hourglass figures. They also reported
having more active sex lives. Scientists say that the voice "seems
to be a medium for the transmission of biologically relevant information."
This certainly isn't news to DJ's and voice talent who know all
about the aphrodisiac power of the voice. If you haven't invested
in that voice training program yet.
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