Post date: Jun 27, 2020 1:16:57 AM

Finally learned how to do the karaoke text highlighting on Adobe Premiere Pro. All the pieces of this Read Along is coming together nicely.

After this, then it's sound effects.

Annndd... it's Week 2 for CVAP now!

Your niche is where you're good at...

Types of Voice Artists

• • Voice Over - for commercials, announcer type

  • Character Voice - for animation

  • Radio and TV commercials

  • Public Service Announcement (PSA)

  • Movie trailer

  • Announcement

  • AVP

  • Educational materials

  • Telephony or IVRS

  • Interactive gadgets - games or apps

  • Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR)

  • Radio Drama

  • Animation

Open-minded ka ba?

• • As an aspiring voice artist, it is best to audition in different kinds of projects first

  • Just audition and audtion. Volunteer and volunteer

  • This is a good practice to make your presence known to producers, clients and directors.

  • After this, you can now identify your NICHE

Next Assignment

• • Find a script online that will fit your voice

Why do you need to know your niche?

• • Simply put, a NICHE is your TARGET MARKET

  • You need to know your niche because:

    • You need to focus on your MARKETING EFFORTS

    • You need to know the particular SKILL that you need to focus on as a voice artist

    • You need to need to establish your own BRAND in the voice acting industry

  • Final note on niche:

    • The voice acting industry is huge.

    • That's why you need to focus on a niche, instead of being "everything to everyone".

How do you find your niche?

To find your niche, you need to consider the following:

• • Type of project

  • Quality of your voice

  • Your specific skill & interest

  • Ask yourself the following:

    • What type of voice do you have?

    • What kind of characters can you do?

    • What types of projects have you already done?

    • What kinds of projects od you want to do?

    • Bottomline: Just FOCUS on one part of the voice acting industry where you can see yourself grow

    • I am not saying that you stay in one niche

    • You are not a convenience store to offer everything, nor an all-purpose cream that can be added to every dish

    • So FOCUS!

Recap

• • Write down your niche:

    1. Voice over

    2. PSA

    3. Educational materials

    4. AVP

    5. Announcement

    6. Animation

3 Important Tips in developing your voice

• • Formula in Creating Character Voices

  • Proper Voice Care

  • Don't be MONOTONOUS

  • Our voice is dynamic

  • It can always be changed and improved

  • "Our voice is not just a gift, it is a CHOICE." -Pochology

  • "The voice that comes out of your mouth is who you are."

A word or a sentence is divided into two parts: Speech and Voice

• • Not what you say, but HOW you say it

  • Our purpose: To give life to words

What does this have to do with voice acting

• • Believability / Authenticity

    • Technology becomes human because of the human voice.

    • Status to post on FB: "Voice acting is not real acting, but the ART of becoming."

Breakout Room #7

• 1. Name your top 2 niches

     1. Voice over

     2. PSA

  2. Appoint a leader - Edel Grace Seronay

  3. Group members

     1. Dave Tabifranca - wfh, freelancer, property researcher for UK firm, does graphics on the side. Voiceover Flowers.

     2. Harvey Gamboa - from QC, working in Makati. EA/HR assistant, freelance before. First webinar is CVAP.

     3. Madel Jaurigue - also working for the government, DAR.

     4. Edel Grace Seronay - cebu-based, working in the government. Voiceover Flowers.

     5. Rene Vincent Torralba

     6. Tedd Lorenz Alabanza - from Baguio, VO, narration, character

VoiceMaster Formula

3 Main Elements

• • Pitch - pertains to level of the voice tone (high or low). Speaking voice is natural voice

    • Yawning - best exercise to relax

    • Pitch can "heighten" emotion

    • Transform a sentence into a question or statement

    • Examples:

      • Umuulan?

      • Uwi na tayo

    • Explore your pitch range

      • "Sweep method"

  • Volume - Pertains to how loud or soft your voice

    • Also helps in conveying emotion

    • Your message is useless if it can't be heard properly

    • You need to PROJECT your voice (not shout)

  • Tempo - refers to your rate of speech

    • This is probably the most important aspect that you will ever learn about voice acting

    • If you are good in creating voices, you should be better in sustaining it

6 Elements of VoiceMaster Formula

• • Pitch - most basic element in creating a voice character (low, middle, high, falsetto)

    • What characters can you do if you change your pitch

  • Pitch Character - gravely, husky, breathy -- texture

    • This is the color or personality of your pitch (i.e. clear, crispy, etc.)

    • Experiment with 2 or 3 elements and see what kinds of characters you can come up with [Formula] | Character

  • Rhythm - this is the "vocal thumbprint"

    • You need to study the unique rhythm of the character

  • Placement - pertains to where the voice is coming from

    • Movement Orchestrates Vocal Expression

      • Head - thin

      • Chest - deep

      • Cheeks - cheerful

      • Throat - raspy

  • Mouth Work - The voice of your character could be determined by the shape & movement of your mouth or lips

  • Tempo

Proper Voice Care

• • Sir Choy lost his voice lots of times, and lost a project worth 1.5M because of this

  • That's why he created the Voice Care for Teachers book

  • Everything would be useless without your voice

  • Tip #1: Drink plenty of water

    • Voice artists need to drink at least 16 glasses of water a day

    • Dehydration is the number one enemy of your voice

    • Water should be at room temperature

  • Tip#2: Avoid food & drinks that will harmful to your voice

    • Caffeine - coffee, iced tea, softdrinks, etc. It is a diuretic

    • Sweets & Dairy - these make us produce more mucus, which affects your voice

    • Cold foods and drinks - avoid at least 2 hours

    • Spicy food - could induce acid reflux

    • Alcohol

    • Lozenges

  • Tip #3: Voice Rest

    • If our bodies need time to recharge & rest, then so does our voice

    • For every hour of voice work, have a voice rest for 15 minutes

  • Tip #4: Proper Posture

    • Our voices are strained if our bodies are not relaxed

    • Our vocal cords could then be easily strained & damaged if we do not practice proper posture

    • Do the wall exercises

  • Tip #5: Proper Breathing

    • When breathing is shallow, our voice doesn't have enough power, and strains our vocal cords

  • Tip #6: Don't shout nor whisper

  • Tip #7: Warm-up

    • Your vocal folds are also muscles that need to be warmed up before working

    • 3 sets of warm up: relaxation, breathing & vocalization

  • Tip #8: Salt water gargle

  • Tip #9: Avoid pollutants

  • Tip #10: Consult a doctor for a persistent cough, sore throat, or similar conditions, especially if it persists for two weeks

Assignment

• 1. Watch 7pm VoiceMaster show

  2. Finish last week's assignments

  3. Weekly article about what you learned on the blog.

  4. Create your own characters, 5 different characters, with backstory. Essentially, a character design. Recorded audio lang. Create the craziest thing that you haven't done before. Different files per character.

  5. 1-min video of your learnings for today

  6. Use #creativoices, #certifiedvoiceartist on materials produced -- also these #VoiceFromHome #CreativoicesProductions #CertifiedVoiceArtistProgram (for final clarification via CVAP FB Page post)

  7. Create 5x AVPs, 2-3 min.

For next week's assignment: write a letter to yourself scheduled to send 1 year from now, and cc'd to the group email