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Aspiring Historical Voice Actor here with samples.
« Thread Started on Oct 28, 2011, 7:29pm »

I'm new at this, I have no demo, so I am just getting some basic work in by doing various YouTube clips of me saying different famous quotes from figures in history.

Any advice is welcome. I love history, and would love to do voice-over work for Ken Burns types of films. Here's two of my clips. I am sure there are little things that need to be worked on, but do you think I have the voice to get work in this field?

Me as Abe Lincoln -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C82xhrH6q8

Me as King George III (doing an English accent) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmcRadvmVFk

I have other clips of me as Lincoln expressing different emotions. If anyone is interested in seeing what else I have, please let me know. Thanks.

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Re: Aspiring Historical Voice Actor here with samp
« Reply #1 on Oct 29, 2011, 2:42am »

Do you have an agent yet?....if not continue to get a wider

range of characters under your belt and go for it.....The "lincoln"

was pretty good....You should checkout a book i read on amazon

it has a lot of pretty good information...agents etc..

here's a link http://www.howtobecomeavoiceactor.com

hope that helps.

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Re: Aspiring Historical Voice Actor here with samp
« Reply #2 on Oct 29, 2011, 6:54am »

That's great, thank you very much. No agent yet. But do you think I should try different accents, or just use my regular voice when quoting different people?

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Re: Aspiring Historical Voice Actor here with samp
« Reply #3 on Oct 29, 2011, 2:36pm »

Hey zeeboe . . . I'm far from pro myself, but the samples would benefit from a little more "acting". To me, they sounded more like you were reading the lines, rather than acting them. Just my 2cents

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« Reply #4 on Oct 29, 2011, 7:08pm »

That's cool. I'm grateful for the feedback, and welcome it, and hope to read more of it. The clips are the first step, and me just warming up, and seeing if I even have the voice for it, as well as the ability to do an accent.

There are some things that make me cringe in the clips, but do you hear a talented voice actor deep down there, anywhere, in these that is screaming for help? Improving the acting is all apart of taking steps. I've done some acting before, but nothing serious, but the desire has been there for a long time.

The plan is to read some books on the topic, take some acting and speech classes, listen to the pros, and more experienced actors and actress's, and just keep at it. I figure the way to not suck at anything is to practice, practice, practice, practice.

I think I can do that by just posting a Lincoln quote once a day, and some other stuff, and see what happens. I know this will take years of work, so I'll just think of it as a fun hobby, and enjoy myself regardless of what happens.

Having typed that, would you mind listening to my other clips where I put more emotion into it? They are all very short clips.

Anger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID8zEcZVFsI&feature=related

Sadness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4FZ3Y3Z3x0

Consoling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr2Fhk6wpls

Happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20B4NWSdrgQ&feature=related

(This last one after "Happy" is long. lol. So please don't listen to it anymore then you like, but please give me 30-60 seconds. I'd like to know if I have what might be a radio voice one day.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGhqgY94wY8

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Re: Aspiring Historical Voice Actor here with samp
« Reply #5 on Oct 29, 2011, 9:36pm »

A fun hobby is where I am at with voice acting/voice over myself. It's been great

Not having any acting background myself, I don't think I'm qualified to give an in depth critique, but I will say the samples so far seem to lack some emotion. Relax, familiarize yourself with the lines and picture yourself actually talking to the person and not reading to them. I'm sure others would have better advice, but this is what I would suggest. It all comes with practice

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Re: Aspiring Historical Voice Actor here with samp
« Reply #6 on Nov 13, 2011, 2:25am »

You have a voice for this stuff, but you need to work on the 'acting' portion. Almost all your pieces are lacking inflection and emotion, and your pacing is off on a lot of them. You should go and listen to oratorical speeches give around the 1920's through 1940's to get an idea of what your pacing should be like for these types of characters.

For instance, in your King George bit, you put a pause right after "Whenever" which shouldnt be there. If you were to write out the sentence, it would read like "Whenever I have failed, it has been from the head, not the heart."

Your first Abe Lincoln bit sounded okay, but you are flat and monotone throughout. We obviously dont have any recording of how Lincoln sounded, but you need to add inflection in order to make it sound authentic.

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Re: Aspiring Historical Voice Actor here with samp
« Reply #7 on Dec 31, 2011, 1:35am »

Oct 28, 2011, 7:29pm, zeeboe wrote:

You do Lincoln?! I'm actually... well, let me say what I have in mind first, as it's probably not exactly what you have in mind. Have you tried sounding like how he might have sounded as a 15-year-old? It's for a project I'm not planning on announcing for some time, but it's for an RPG made with RPG Maker VX, and young Abe is going to have one climactic voiced line during the final battle, and I guess as long as he doesn't sound like he's being played by Yuri Lowenthall (read: Michael J. Fox), it'll work.

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Re: Aspiring Historical Voice Actor here with samp
« Reply #8 on Jun 22, 2012, 3:58pm »

Hi several months later. lol. Thanks for the feedback. I am grateful, and secretfinalboss, sorry especially to you for the late response. I'm sorry I couldn't help. I'd probably have a heck of a time sounding like I'm 15 though. Shoot, when I was 15, I didn't even sound that age. Once I hit 13, my voice got VERY deep. lol.

I have gotten back into this stuff, only this time I am hoping to find a voice actor who is willing to read two Lincoln quotes for me for free if they don't mind. They are short quotes and it's for a clip I plan to also do some voice-over work for.

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