| Voice acting is using your words, the emotion in your voice, to make fictional characters come to life. It’s reading lines off a page into a microphone for a cartoon, video game character, or anything not real. Voice actors need to learn how to control and manage their voice. They need to know how to put enough emotion in their voice to match their character that they are portraying. Voice actors can’t use their faces to show how they are feeling so they must really connect with their character and often put themselves in the head space of that character. Voice acting from on-camera acting is very different. On-camera you get to see your own face, see your movements and see everything. You can use your body to express your emotions. An example of on camera acting would be the television show “Friends”. An example of voice acting is “SpongeBob”. You never see anyone’s real face. By hearing a person’s voice, you can tell what they’re feeling. Often, when I go into an on-camera acting audition the director or producer won’t even look at me. Instead, they will lean back on their chair only to hear my voice. Your voice is your trophy, if you can be convincing with your voice then you can convince anyone anything. To sum it up, voice acting is just using your voice to make something unreal come to life! Thanks for reading! |
