BEGINNING VOICEOVER WORK

Beginning voice over work is always an exciting time in someone's life, when people actually realise that their voice can make them an income – working in their own home studio - and be incredibly good fun as well.
Now many voiceover scripts fall into “types” of read, dare I say “stereotypes”, and when you’re at the beginning of your voiceover journey, it’s very useful to learn these basic voice styles and pattens that are generally accepted by audiences. You have the “commercial style” – both hard sell and soft sell, the straight documentary narration, the proud business “Image Video”. Now, a fast-track way to understand these styles so you can perform them yourself is to learn from others already doing it. When we were babies and toddlers, we learned to speak from listening to people around us and repeating what we heard. This helped us learn language as well as accent and speech style from people we heard around us or on radio or TV. That's why if you were brought up in Texas, you probably don't have a posh British accent.
Now when I was about eight years old, I desperately wanted to get onto the radio as a radio deejay. And my hero in England was Tony Blackburn, and I used to copy his style, almost imitate him. But pretty soon afterwards, I then developed my OWN radio style and many OTHER voice styles of my own for voiceover and voice acting work. And this is what this technique is really. It's listening to the best voice overs and people whose voices with a range type that you can attempt to emulate. Imitate them to start with, then once you have that voice pattern template in your head, then you can develop your OWN version that still fits the accepted voiceover template, for commercials, documentary narration, stereotype character voices in cartoons and so on.
May I suggest a technique to help you quickly learn these styles? You need to get into your head the basic “melody” of each section of speech you’re learning first. All you need is access to a musical instrument and a little bit of musical knowledge. First, don’t get overwhelmed by long reads. Take recordings you find a sentence at a time and analyse them in enormous detail, for emotion, attitude, timing, pitch, volume change and all importantly, MELODY.

[omari]

Great info, really makes me think I can give this a

[DC-szlt]

A lot of great information in less than 5 minutes, keeping it simple and to the point. Cheers

[iSpike]

Awesome 😎 👍🏻 I am getting excited about learning from you Peter. Now signed up to five of your VO courses. Cheers

[jososki]

This is some really good INFO! I'm certainly gonna be using these methods myself since I do have a piano and a pretty low vocal range myself that's shown in my channel. Thanks for the advice🙇🏽‍♂️

[Sciencified]

Thanks !! My channel's voice-overs are really bad. I have recently purchased your course on udemy to improve my speaking skill/ voice over. Hoping for the best.. Finger crossed.

[sujayanarula]

Interesting to know about the voice over biz. Thank you so much 😊🙏🏽I do not have a studio set up, but I just want to try something, if you have an assignment I can do it as a volunteer just to get some practice. Plz do let me know. I can sing jingles, play, guitar and basic keyboard. Thanks once again.

[MontyDodge]

Hello Peter, Just a quick question, which home studio mixer is the quietest? You mentioned in one of your videos for professional voice overs the db silence should be around -75! I'm thinking of purchasing a Yam MG12XUF USB mixer.. Do you or any of your subscribers know about the quietness of this mixer, trying to find out about this particular function, but not having much success! Can you help?

[gagrlntxworld]

I need your help and guidance Peter as someone who is aspiring to put my all into this. I need to get a demo made and posted up online.

[sujayanarula]

😄I can do this, I'd love to volunteer it's given as an assignment please, Thank you 😊

[ajimulislam]

I am bangladesh and can I do voiceover in american style if I work hard

[aishine]

I'm not getting your notifications of new videos why?