Master the Art of the Change-up in Voiceover Technique
Enhance your voiceover skills with this tutorial on mastering the change-up technique. Learn how to captivate your audience with engaging voice modulation and delivery. Improve your performance and stand out in the competitive world of voiceover.
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Hello and welcome back. I'm Devon back with another tutorial video to help you improve at voiceover.
It's been a while since my last video. I appreciate your patience.
Some stuff came up. I won't bore you with the details.
As a reward, stick around at the end of this video for a clip from my trip to Japan.
So let's talk about voiceover.
Recently we've been discussing audiobook editing techniques, scheduling tips, that sort of thing.
It's been a while since we've discussed voiceover technique specifically, so I figured let's
change that.
Because we don't want to neglect our technique.
It's the thing that makes us interesting to listen to in the first place.
All the editing, marketing, and networking in the world won't amount to much if the technique
isn't there.
It makes a performance good.
Or not so good.
In previous videos we've discussed the elements of a good voiceover performance.
stuff like really thinking through the context of who you are as the speaker, who
you're speaking to, where and why, what type of energy to use, articulation, pacing,
tone. In a previous video we've also discussed
changeups specifically and check the low for the link to that. And we're going to
be discussing changeups again in this video but I wanted to go a bit more in-depth
on how to implement them effectively. Let's start by reviewing the basics. What
What is a change up and why does it matter?
Great questions.
A change up is any significant shift in your manner of speaking that changes the nature
of how you sound.
Since there are many elements that go into how you sound like tone of voice, volume and
pacing, there are many things that you can change that will add variety to your performance.
The reason changeups are so important has to do with that word I just used, variety.
simply put, if your performance lacks variety, it comes off as dull. If you read
everything the same, you're just going to lose your audience's attention. Now,
when it comes to how we deliver a script or copy, one of the mean objectives
should be to sound natural, meaning you don't want to sound rehearsed. You want to
sound as if you're thinking of what you want to say as you say it. And if you've
pay attention to how we speak in any given conversation, you might have noticed, that we tend to
phrase things according to how we think. By which I mean, when we have a new thought, we tend to
alter how we say it. That's what changeups are. So when should you use a changeup? Anytime during
your voiceover performance that you have a new thought, let's go to my booth for some examples.
Welcome back to the booth. I'm going to read a couple of commercial scripts that I wrote to demonstrate the types of changeups that you can utilize.
Here's the first one. Hey, do you hear that? That's adventure calling. It's saying time to shake things up. Get out there, explore. We hear it, too, which is why with travel, it's never been easier to find the best hotel room for the lowest price. So, wherever adventure takes you, we'll be there.
Did you detect the different changeups in how I performed that copy?
There's nothing in the script that tells me where to put a changeup.
It's all on how you interpret the copy, the choices that you make.
This is actually a really good example because it contains a number of different types of
changeups all within a pretty short read, the first of which is a change in tone.
Between the first and second sentences, do you hear that?
That's adventure calling.
And again, between, get out there, explore, we hear it too.
My delivery shifts from whispery confidential to excited, and then from excited triumphant
to more friendly and natural.
Lots of things contribute to a change in tone, but mainly it's an emotional shift.
