The Ways of Documentary Voiceover. Voiceover is a fundamental part of many documentaries. It usually provides context information to allow us to understand what the images show. Therefore, its goal is generally more functional than artistic, which can cause many of them to sound boringly similar. So… do all documentary voiceover sound alike? Not quite. […]
Spanish accent in voiceover. With 400 million speakers, Spanish is the second most used language in the world, only behind Chinese. It’s an official language in 20 countries: 18 in America, 1 in Europe and 1 in Africa. What countries are those? Spain, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, […]
Interview with Nadine Shenton, an UK’s award winning female voiceover artist. Former Royal Shakespeare Company actress she is now well known for voicing recognized television and radio commercials, web animation, corporate, narration, e-learning, IVR or apps. We couldn’t miss the opportunity to talk about our industry with such a talented and experienced voice over artist. Listen […]
It is time to learn some basis from Audacity. Welcome to Audacity Tutorial Guide for Beginners: How to Control the Level at which a recording is registered. Related Article: Audacity Tutorial Guide. The Basics Audacity Tutorial Guide for Beginners: How to Control the Level There are two basic tools for this: amplification and normalization. Lets […]
Dubbing. Speech Patterns and Tempos in Different Languages. When you are planning to have something dubbed in different languages, you need to take this into consideration: while you may be saying the exact same thing in different languages, each language is different – not only in the obvious ways, such words, sentence structure and even […]
Who better than Luis Ignacio González to talk about voiceover: since 1985, when he started his career as professional voice talent, he’s provided his voice to the most popular brands for TV and radio spots, as well as the Internet. In addition, he’s been equally fruitful in documentaries and even as humourist in several media. […]
Interview with our Dutch Voice Actor, Marcel. In this new edition of our interviews with professional voice actors, in addition to offering voiceover tips, advices about how to prepare a professional demo reel or discussing audiobooks, we present you “Take it as it comes”, the last stage play penned by our Dutch voice actor Marcel. […]
In this interview with Bev we will not only learn some voiceover tips from a voice arts awards winner, but also we will also discover how the World Voices Conference went and learn some guidelines to know how much you should charge for a voiceover project. Listen to the whole interview here. Bev, a Canadian […]
If your project needs a professional voiceover, the pronunciation guide is essential to facilitate the work of the voice-over actor. It’s the perfect complement to the script to be sure that the recording will come out right. You know that Benjamin Franklin axiom, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”? Well, Franklin […]
