Multiple personalities on a stick - that's what I call it! Being a voice over artist is all about bringing in different personalities or as others like to refer to them as - characters to each voice over job you do.
In a recent voice coaching session I went over my usual information regarding creating personalities and came to the realization that readers/voice talent may be very confused as to what type of personality or character to create. Do they mean over the top and cartoony, realistic, stylized? With all these choices how do you know what to do?
My method for creating personalities or characters is adapted through a variety of coaches, but James Alburgers' method; with his crafty character breakdown sheet is one of my favorites. This sheet is an in-depth look into a voice artist's character and can be a life-saver for many reasons; the most important, consistency and continuity.
This worksheet is incredible when creating in-depth stock characters (characters you will draw from several times in your career). Did you know that many professional voice talents only have about 10 solid characters and they manipulate those characters into several variations, making hundreds? This gives them several characters to choose from. If you haven't started creating characters to choose from. If you haven't started creating characters or personalities then this is something you can begin doing now. Learn everything about these characters inside and out so that you can read any script in their personality (notice I don't say VOICE - there is a huge difference between creating character personalities and creating character voices - that's what training is all about - learning the differences)!
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