Once I went down to Madison Avenue to audition for a candy bar voice over. <\/p>\n
There were several women auditioning but there was no script and no mic. <\/p>\n
The casting director stood us in a line and asked us to say “Oooo!” “Ahhh ” –separately and in unison<\/p>\n
Then they shuffled the line and had us do it again. This wackiness went on for quite some time.<\/p>\n
I didn’t get the job. <\/p>\n
And although I was a failure at expressions of delight, I managed to build a successful voice over career anyway.<\/p>\n
As you grow your voice over business, one thing you can count on is that you will rarely, if ever work without a script (also known as copy).<\/p>\n
But scripts can be frustrating little buggers.<\/p>\n
Sometimes they are formatted weirdly or the punctuation doesn’t make sense. <\/p>\n
Other times the English is just plain bad. But before you re-write a single word (I’ll explain why you should NEVER do this in the video)…<\/p>\n
Watch this week’s short training video Here Now<\/p>\n