Post by mountainguardian on May 6, 2017 9:30:17 GMT -8
I have never done any kind of voice acting in my life, so I do not have any assurance that I will even be capable of doing such a thing. In the seventh grade 36 years ago I remember having to play 12 scales and etudes in a small sound room via a tape recorder as a test in band class. It took me four sessions in that room by myself with that tape recorder before I could even play a single note on my trumpet... lol... It was strange, I could easily play in front of the band, my family, at the family reunions, at church, later with the Portland Phil Harmonic and then the Navy drum and bugle corps, but the idea of being in that room with a tape recorder was too much for me... Thankfully I was just one of many that had this problem and I was not too embarrassed by it. I finally managed to get my nervousness and fear of that and I performed it perfectly and made the advanced band class, I had been able to play all those scales and etudes perfectly for two years at that point, it was just the getting past the fear of that dang recorder.
Now, many, years later the idea of "speaking" into a recording is also for whatever reason a little spooky to me. It is strange to me the little unreasonable, nonsensical, and unexpected fears that pop up in life.
I have a great speaking voice, I know this, most everyone that I know has said for years that I need to go into a career that utilizes my voice. As chance would have it, I was watching a great documentary on the life and works of Audubon, and it had a great deal of narration done by Sam Elliot within it. For the first time I got to hear an actual example of someone in a sound booth narrating something, it was pretty cool listening to that. It was especially nice to hear someone like Sam Elliot, because we have amazingly similar voices and a similar speaking style. I was able to talk along with him matching his voice, intonation and how he was speaking and I realized that this really isn't that hard and certainly nothing to be nervous about.
You never know in life, where that little bit of inspiration will come from that gives you the self confidence you need to move forward and follow your dreams. I don't know that this will have any meaning for most of the people on this forum, but maybe there is someone else like me that is starting out and a bit nervous about this as well.
Now, many, years later the idea of "speaking" into a recording is also for whatever reason a little spooky to me. It is strange to me the little unreasonable, nonsensical, and unexpected fears that pop up in life.
I have a great speaking voice, I know this, most everyone that I know has said for years that I need to go into a career that utilizes my voice. As chance would have it, I was watching a great documentary on the life and works of Audubon, and it had a great deal of narration done by Sam Elliot within it. For the first time I got to hear an actual example of someone in a sound booth narrating something, it was pretty cool listening to that. It was especially nice to hear someone like Sam Elliot, because we have amazingly similar voices and a similar speaking style. I was able to talk along with him matching his voice, intonation and how he was speaking and I realized that this really isn't that hard and certainly nothing to be nervous about.
You never know in life, where that little bit of inspiration will come from that gives you the self confidence you need to move forward and follow your dreams. I don't know that this will have any meaning for most of the people on this forum, but maybe there is someone else like me that is starting out and a bit nervous about this as well.