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Deirdre · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject: On WBZ Friday Night

With Morgan White.

Talking about VO.

I'm such a spaz— we're only on for 10 more minutes and It just occurred to me to put something up here.

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Moe Egan · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 5:01 am Post subject:

As Herman Munster would have said "Darn, darn, darn" I missed yous.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 5:19 am Post subject:

Did you mention making animal noises in Simon Rushton's left ear?

Deirdre · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 7:00 am Post subject:

No— but I should have.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 7:48 am Post subject:

I believe that it would've been the sizzle that sold the sausage. Did either you or your fellow guest manage to be even remotely interesting? Or was it a case of "it was only 10 minutes it just seemed longer"?

Deirdre · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:18 am Post subject:

It was the hour that seemed like 10 minutes.

And I am always riveting.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 10:10 am Post subject:

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Gregory Best · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject:

is it recorded? Can we hear it?
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Deirdre · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject:

Nah. It was just a little talk about VO.
I think my chief contribution was letting people know that their native speech is their baseline and anything else is a deviation. Your natural speech is the "right way"— the "standard American Dialect" is an accent you can learn.

I also warned people about the "demo mill" snake oil salesmen. "You have great potential— come to a master class" kind of thing that snags several thousand dollars from you and leaves you with an unusable demo.

Me and Harlan Hogan on the warpath.
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Bailey · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject:

Hmmmmm... must have missed it. Unless that's you taking about property values.
Probably not.
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I only caught the last five minutes but a grand five minutes it was.

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Deirdre · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 9:25 am Post subject:

Don't misconstrue what I'm saying— if you grew up in Kentucky, your "normal" mode of speech won't get you work in most cases.

However, I don't ever want someone to tell you you need to eradicate your "accent". The way you grew up speaking is YOUR right way. Anything else is a deviation, as much as my learning a Texas accent is a deviation for me.
The way you grow up speaking is your baseline.
It's your "normal".

If you must learn Standard American (not for god's sake "flat Midwestern"— that's a completely different accent), you should approach it as an accent, not a replacement.
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Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

Thanks for that clarification!

Or in KYese---"thaynk yew fer thet claruhfukayshin!"