Heads up. This is a long one.
And before we get started, I’d like to ask: Has someone ever asked you about a voice over class?
These are the details about mine.
VO4TA: The Long One
VO4TA: An actor thanked me today
An actor thanked me today. They sent me an email and expressed graciously and sincerely their appreciation of my belief in them and their talent.
VO4TA: Short Form
Commercials are a very short form.
This is one of a list of reasons why I admire commercial copy. After years of working with actors to make it alive - I can still look down and go: "Such an economy of means!" without an iota of artifice.
VO4TA: Understand and then...
In a class tonight one actor leapt on this thought...
HPK: I want you to make it slower. But I don't want you to try to make it slower. I want you to understand: This time - everything (the commercial script) will come out slower. Now: see what happens.
VO4TA: Body and Soul
“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”
Dorothy Parker - New Yorker (4 February 1928)
Gentle reader, if you’ve not yet read the wit and wisdom of Mrs. Parker, run to your local library and let yourself be struck as soundly as a novice after confession.
