Blumenfeld convincingly argues that the basic techniques of acting apply whether the actor is performing onstage or in a sound studio. Numerous practice exercises help the actor to speak the words of a text that can be enhanced by the varying sounds of the human voice.
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Feature: "Spotlight on Speech, Diction and Voice-overs." -- Backstage
[I]ncludes information on resumes, union affiliations, and agents...suggestions for caring for the voice, vocal technique, diction, and acting. RECOMMENDED. -- Choice, February 2005
[I]ncludes information on resumes, union affiliations, and agents...suggestions for caring for the voice, vocal technique, diction, and acting. RECOMMENDED. -- Choice, February 2005
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Robert Blumenfeld has been narrating books for 19 years and has recorded 280 fiction and nonfiction works. Please see book jacket for an expanded biography.
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Useless, Insulting, and Unreadable,
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I have read many books on the topic of Voice-Over acting. I can't think of any even close to as awful as this one. The only thing I can compare it to is perhaps if your were interested in singing and bought a book that turned out to be 100% devoted to telling you how great Opera is, and how beneath contempt all other forms of singing are. Note, I said telling you, not even teaching you, as there is no attempt to teach anything in this book. In between the totally condescending and insulting text are pages and pages of scripts to practice that are simply useless at best. The words "pulp fiction" appear countless times, and every time in a more derogatory and insulting manner. To this author, the Robert Ludlum's, Dale Brown's, and Tom Clancy's of the world are on the same level as ax-murderers and child molester, and if you don't agree you are an idiot.
After the first few pages it is practically unreadable. Since you will learn nothing if you do, don't force yourself as I did. I have always found some small redeeming value in every book I have read. This is the exception that proves the rule.
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recording nonfiction, acting with the voice, diction practice, gum ridge, voice correctly, upper pitch, vibrating vocal cords Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General American, Recording Prose Fiction, Reading Techniques, Charles Dickens, New York, Lady Macbeth, Marcel Proust, Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre, Recording Poetry, United States, Queen Victoria, Miss Havisham, Oscar Wilde, Tom Jones, Helen Potter, Edgar Allan Poe, Great Expectations, Wilkie Collins, Culverton Smith, George Eliot, March Hare, Frank Harris, Aunt Polly, Lord Tennyson Browse Sample Pages:
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recording nonfiction, acting with the voice, diction practice, gum ridge, voice correctly, upper pitch, vibrating vocal cords Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General American, Recording Prose Fiction, Reading Techniques, Charles Dickens, New York, Lady Macbeth, Marcel Proust, Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre, Recording Poetry, United States, Queen Victoria, Miss Havisham, Oscar Wilde, Tom Jones, Helen Potter, Edgar Allan Poe, Great Expectations, Wilkie Collins, Culverton Smith, George Eliot, March Hare, Frank Harris, Aunt Polly, Lord Tennyson Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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