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Depthpersuasion

Via a well known voice over talent, I was offered to audition for this commercial and since I have received my best critiques here, I would be very open to hear your voices again. As always thank you for your time and energy vested into my inquiries.

Best,

Daniel Pierce

To note, it does require you to download the 1 Megabyte file. Apologies for any inconvenience. Cheers.

https://files.me.com/depthpersuasion/plee7n.mp3
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asnively · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:47 pm Post subject:

Hi Daniel-- I'd record it again without trying to 'hit' words. Just talk like a regular person and it'll be a lot better!
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Depthpersuasion · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Amy. That is a large habit of mine, and I do cringe at the "off" I over sell.

You're just what I needed for the iron.
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Mikenj3 · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:24 pm Post subject:

Hi, Daniel...

Amy said it best...make it more conversational. You can tell you were reading.
Also... this may be nit-picky...but your pronunciation of the word "imagine" bothered me.. it came out "eemagine." Maybe nothing, but it stood out to me.

You've been blessed with awesome pipes. Just relax and imagine yourself speaking to one other person. Be careful of where you take your breaths, also.

Best of luck. Keep working on it!! That voice is loaded with potential.

All the best...

Mike Forbes
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Depthpersuasion · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:42 pm Post subject:

Thank you Mike for the kind words. This in my humble opinion has been the most conversational read of my this far. Acting as a Character VO come much easier to me since I can commit to another personality.

Commercial VO tends to present the challenge of the perfect storm: conversational yet original, normal yet interesting. My natural conversational voice is normally not excited about much and when it does so, it's tempo is too fast for my voice type to market what I'm sharing. So it does seem to be a fighting current; but nothing I shouldn't be able to soon accomplish.
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