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Scott Pollak
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 Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 5:08 pm Post subject: Annnnnnnnd...... today's "Direction of the day"! |
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Sorry, couldn't help myself. From a V123 posting.
Feel free to add your own as you come across them.
"Looking for a conversational, yet authoritative/convincing voice."
Sort of like:
"Honey, would you like to go out and get some lunch? NOW DROP DOWN AND GIVE ME 10, DAMMIT!!" ??
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ballenberg
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Mike Harrison
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: Annnnnnnnd...... today's "Direction of the day" |
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| Scott Pollak wrote: | | "Looking for a conversational, yet authoritative/convincing voice." |
Just fer chuckles, I'd submit in my best Richard Simmons.
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Scott Pollak
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Annnnnnnnd...... today's "Direction of the day" |
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| Mike Harrison wrote: |
Just fer chuckles, I'd submit in my best Richard Simmons. |
Which I'd DEARLY love to hear, Mike! Please, don't keep us in suspense! 
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Mike Harrison
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You called my bluff, Scott! However, something pretty close to Richard Simmons is a character I based on a producer I once worked with. It opens my animation demo:
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Lee Gordon
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| Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:19 am Post subject: |
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The direction that Scott alluded to was, indeed, odd, but the copy itself was actually quite well written.
And this silly direction was just posted on Voices.com moments ago:
"Client is looking for a middle aged (20's-30's) male to voice their video."
Oh, to be middle aged again. 
By the way, that instruction was provided by one of the seemingly myriad new in-house people who post jobs at Voices.com.
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Scott Pollak
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Oh, Mike! That was priceless!!! I hope everyone on this forum gets to hear that!!! You definitely had me guffawing (and it takes a lot for me to guffaw!)
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Lance Blair
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| Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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You don't have to sound like you're proclaiming from a podium to be authoritative and convincing. Often even intimidating/threatening speech is done in very conversational tones.
I used to think that 'conversational' meant dumbed-down or anti-intellectual. Now I know it means 'You are speaking to just one person, and being emotionally honest."
Being conversational is hard.
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bransom
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| Lance Blair wrote: | | Being conversational is hard. |
Amen!
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Lee Gordon
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Being conversational isn't hard, when you're having a conversation. It's not even that hard when the copy is written conversationally. Unfortunately, it seems most people ask for "Conversational. No Announcer types," and then give you a piece of announcer copy.
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Lance Blair
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So true to all of that Lee. In Bobbin Beam's excellent new blog post she points out that usually the copy has never been read aloud.
Two things I laugh at in sessions:
1.) When I get a scratch track that is some guy just rushing through and mumbling.
2.) When I have clients on a call-in and I hear them in the background saying "What does this even really mean. It's like legal just wants to feel important and make us do stuff".
That's an real quote from a gig this week, btw. 
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Jason Huggins
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| I've also found that when a client asks for conversational, they are often asking for something similar to conversational, but not really. When I speak like I really would in a conversation it is not usually what they want. I've just learned to give them my pseudo conversational read. It's almost always what they are really looking for. |
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bransom
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Yeah, I just did some supposedly "conversational" bits for an e-learning thing for corporate managers this morning. The copy couldn't possibly have been less conversational or more filled with run of the mill management jargon, words and phrases that no one has ever spoken in conversation. I read it flat and I think the client is happy.
If they wanted my real conversational style, they'd let me mumble and curse.
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captain54
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How about "Voice of God.. with a shade of optimism, but still aggressive"
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melissa eX
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | "Client is looking for a middle aged (20's-30's) male to voice their video." |
Oh dear. Does this mean you're all dead? |
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