The Voice Over Actor's Handbook: How to Analyze, Interpret, and Deliver Scripts - Softcover

Burr, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1533083444 ISBN 13: 9781533083449

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

This voice over guide will teach you how to break down, understand, and read aloud scripts for expert delivery.

Prominent voice over coach John Burr developed this handbook when he recognized that his students didn’t understand the fundamentals of the English language and grammar—the first step in analyzing voice over scripts.

In this in-depth guide, you’ll discover what it takes to become a successful voice over actor. You will acquire the skills to pronounce words clearly, pace yourself through a script, take pauses at appropriate times, and incrementally express emotion.

As the chapters unfold, you will learn the importance of understanding the meaning of the script, how to compare and contrast, and how to handle dialogue and quotes.

A section on language dynamics instructs readers on deciphering sentences within a script and highlighting the right words and phrases to communicate effectively. It gets into the nuts and bolts of language so that readers can understand how sentence structure and grammar affect delivery.

You will learn how to mark a script to ensure a consistent delivery from take to take. The Voice Over Actor’s Handbook is the next best thing to having a voice over coach in your living room.

About this title

About the Author

John Burr is one of America's top voice over coaches, with over twenty-five years of one-on-one coaching experience. He works one-on-one with students from all corners of the U.S. and Canada via phone and Skype.

With a solid background in script interpretation, music performance, and theater acting and direction, as well as thirty-five years of audio and visual production experience, he brings to the table a producer/director's perspective, as well as a wealth of seasoned observations and teaching tools to his students, many of whom have won local and national awards for excellence in voice acting.

He lives and teaches in Sarasota, Florida.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1533083444
• ISBN 13: 9781533083449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266