Have Fun or You're Fired
Two blogs ago, I promised to talk more about the element of fun in producing commercials. Then I got distracted by something shiny and wrote something on customer service. Hey, you'll be my age someday. But let's talk a little about having fun. I think it's important, heck I think it's vital to producing the best possible product. After all, we don't produce in a vacuum. We're producing a product that ultimately people will listen to. So, do we want to bore them to tears, or hope to connect and have a little fun? As I said in the previous blog...."DUH!"
In that blog I talked about fun in the script. Now, let's talk about fun in the voice. (For those of you aspiring to be voice talents, this is the most important thing you'll ever read.) FOR GOD'S SAKE, SMILE! When you're reading a script, depending on the subject matter of course, you should be just short of sounding like you've just seen your absolute best friend from college with whom you hooted and hollered and haven't seen in fifteen years. Sound extreme? Try it.
Every producer I've ever worked with (and that's a few since 1969) has told me they'd rather tone a voice actor down than try to boost them up. Oh sure, there are times when Ben Stein's delivery is absolutely right on, but for the vast majority of voice work we have to be having fun and the listener has to be able to tell it.
How many movies have you watched and commented, "Oh I'll bet that was fun to do."? Wouldn't it be wonderful if everything in life could be that much fun? Well, it can't. But producing voice talent should be. That's Radio Garage's stand. Are you in good hands?
Oh, sorry....thanks for reading and we'll leave the mic on for ya.
In that blog I talked about fun in the script. Now, let's talk about fun in the voice. (For those of you aspiring to be voice talents, this is the most important thing you'll ever read.) FOR GOD'S SAKE, SMILE! When you're reading a script, depending on the subject matter of course, you should be just short of sounding like you've just seen your absolute best friend from college with whom you hooted and hollered and haven't seen in fifteen years. Sound extreme? Try it.
Every producer I've ever worked with (and that's a few since 1969) has told me they'd rather tone a voice actor down than try to boost them up. Oh sure, there are times when Ben Stein's delivery is absolutely right on, but for the vast majority of voice work we have to be having fun and the listener has to be able to tell it.
How many movies have you watched and commented, "Oh I'll bet that was fun to do."? Wouldn't it be wonderful if everything in life could be that much fun? Well, it can't. But producing voice talent should be. That's Radio Garage's stand. Are you in good hands?
Oh, sorry....thanks for reading and we'll leave the mic on for ya.
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