Friday, August 19, 2005
had another rather interesting experience today. went to oak3 films for a recording, and it was tough! i somehow never considered that you actually have to use effort and skill to just
speak. the other guy recording, david, was a professional voice, with discovery channel, and he had that sort of ubiquitous movie-trailer type voice which seems so familiar to us all, and somehow comes without a body. that's maybe what it is with TV and radio voices, they are so compelling in themselves that they just go right ahead of the body. so, you can imagine that it was interesting for me to see him actually making the voice. he looked like he was singing, or expending substantial effort and emotion. and it was only a dumb voice-over. it never really struck me how specific and conscious things like intonation can be-- the slightest difference in pitch or the way you end a word, can determine whether you're selling innovative tour packages, or life insurance. then it was my turn, and boy was it tiring. i could actually feel my diaphragm having a workout. toward the end, i even ended up doing what david did, closing my eyes and imagining, i suppose, "i was there", wherever "there' might be. and in the end, they still had to put alot of filters on my voice. i reckon, for normal people like you and me, our raw voice just isn't worth listening to in itself. someone should invent these filters to fit over our vocal chords, so that when we speak we can all sound like voice talents and get the attention we need/want/deserve. for people like david and all the other bodiless voices of the world, they can just go orgasmic listining to themselves.
Posted by i confound myself at 4:52 pm
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