D Pardes
@GivingVoiceĀ Ā·Ā 1:05
Session One: You, The Great Narrator - 5 Tips
And I want to give you tips that I apply to myself when I do voiceovers, and I think that they'll be helpful for you, regardless of whether or not this is like a temp track. Maybe you're doing a voiceover and then you're going to give it to a voiceover artist, but it's a really great way to lay down some good vocal work and feel like you've done justice to the topic of the content that you're covering
D Pardes
@GivingVoiceĀ Ā·Ā 1:16
Don't eat peanut butter before you speak. Just a thought. So mouth prep. Make sure your actual instrument is feeling great. And try not to do voiceovers early in the morning because there's lots of stuff going on with your body. You're not woken up yet. You're not flowing your voice gently sometimes is deeper than it normally is. That goes also for late, late and late night
D Pardes
@GivingVoiceĀ Ā·Ā 1:28
If I put my mouth right in front of this microphone and I say, P, you're going to hear the P because the wind comes out right into the screen, and it just sounds like a P, and it's very distracting. Same thing goes with S's, and that sometimes distracts people. So sometimes you could put a little paper towel in between you and the microphone. That might be a little thick
Swell Team
@SwellĀ Ā·Ā 0:15
D Pardes
@GivingVoiceĀ Ā·Ā 1:37
Stay intimate. And what I mean by that is think about who you're saying this to and what they care about what they care about in terms of are they being spoken with as opposed to spoken to to you're not alone. You have to imagine that someone across the universe in some parallel world is actually with you, right as you are speaking, so that you can imagine them receiving what you're saying. And the intimacy that that kind of engenders in you is this sense of place
D Pardes
@GivingVoiceĀ Ā·Ā 2:04
I go up like this and then I go down like this the expression of your voice, no matter how serious or funny your topic is, how you approach it has a lot to do with how people are going to feel it something to lay, like a lead balloon, even if it was funny if you don't deliver it. Well, similarly, if you sound too jovial with a really important and serious thing that you just said, people are going to kind of have a misconnection
D Pardes
@GivingVoiceĀ Ā·Ā 2:01
I think that it doesn't matter about the breath sound, because what comes after the breath is a great sound, which is your voice or at a word. So when you breathe, you are breathing because you are bringing energy into the word. You're about to speak of the words of the sentence you're about to speak, and it feels way more genuine