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You can use your voice to make a rewarding career for yourself. Many people are blessed with amazing voice quality. If one moment, they have a tone of authenticity then immediately they can switch gears in midstream and start speaking in completely different accent. If you have been complimented on your voice modulations, known for your craft of narration and characterization then career as a voice over artist is for you. A voice over artist can draw his listeners through the quality and tone of his/her voice. These professional artists don’t just have great voice quality but they also possess the ability to deliver the voice in a captivating manner.
Voice can imply a lot about a person, place or thing. Don’t you like those animation films where funniest animals crack jokes and mesmerize you with their voice quality? Yes, these animals don’t speak but that’s the job of voice-over artists who can simply make a documentary or an animation movie or a jingle alive with their speech quality. Using your voice as a talent source can be limitless. If you think of it, words alone are just words. But they acquire a whole new dimension when spoken with depth of emotion and feeling. Similarly, a voice-over artist can entice the audience or can carry him along the journey. A voice artist is truly an artist in every sense of the word.
Voice over work can be found in different categories like commercials, imaging, narration and characterizations. Re-voicing has different modes like free commentary, lip-sync dubbing and narration or voice-over. Voice over is basically a production technique in which a disembodied voice is broadcast live or as it often happens, pre-recorded in television, radio, theatre or presentation. Dubbing is an integral part of filmmaking where voices are recorded or replaced for a motion picture. Voice artists are also known as voice actor, or narrator etc.
Some of the institutes offering courses in the field of voice-over:-
Institutes for Voice Modulation in Bangalore
AAROHA- the Center for Voice and Performance Empowerment in Mumbai, Maharashtra
R. K. Films & Media Academy, New Delhi
As such, there is no specific qualification required for these courses. Course curriculum covers subjects like sociology and market of the AV media, resonance, familiarization with sound studio facilities and recording equipment, cinematic language & dubbing history, advanced semantics or semiotics, basic acting parameters, rhythm of speech & breathing, advanced stylistics and pragmatics and advanced phonetics and phonology. Course also introduces students to voice over (VO) & dubbing for TV documentaries, radio & TV commercials/ advertisements and corporate videos etc. Curriculum includes different forms of dubbing, voice-over & free commentary e.g., for animation, film, T.V. serials, etc. Many media institutors also conduct workshops for voice over artists.
There are plenty of job opportunities for a good voice-over artist. His/her services are always required in news, multimedia, sports, video and radio programs, phone software, documentaries, jingles for advertisements and presentations. Voice-over artists are an integral part of production houses and media channels. These professionals can also work as radio jockey.
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