What do you do when you first approach a script? What’s going through your head? Are you thinking, “How should I say this?” Or maybe it’s, “I have no idea what they want from me. I wish I had some direction.”
Do you find yourself ramping up into your performance and trying to accommodate direction you never got in the first place, then settling on a delivery that only pleases your comfort zone? If so, you’re not alone.
Regardless of your experience level, most talent settle for “close enough” when trying to turnaround five or more auditions a day from their home recording setups as voice talent, and as many as three or four a week as on-camera talent.
Add to this the fact that it’s very likely, out of habit, you’re attacking every audition with the same cadence, tempo, volume, and inflection whether it’s appropriate to the piece or not. The problem with this approach is that it’s no approach at all.
No wonder the failure rate is said to be so steep for actors!
Proper technique training develops performance agility, expression, and, among other things, challenges your imagination. Much like circuit training fine-tunes your physical
What do you do when you first approach a script? What’s going through your head? Are you thinking, “How should I say this?” Or maybe it’s, “I have no idea what they want from me. I wish I had some direction.”
Do you find yourself ramping up into your performance and trying to accommodate direction you never got in the first place, then settling on a delivery that only pleases your comfort zone? If so, you’re not alone.
Regardless of your experience level, most talent settle for “close enough” when trying to turnaround five or more auditions a day from their home recording setups as voice talent, and as many as three or four a week as on-camera talent.
Add to this the fact that it’s very likely, out of habit, you’re attacking every audition with the same cadence, tempo, volume, and inflection whether it’s appropriate to the piece or not. The problem with this approach is that it’s no approach at all.
No wonder the failure rate is said to be so steep for actors!
Proper technique training develops performance agility, expression, and, among other things, challenges your imagination. Much like circuit training fine-tunes your physical
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