Voice Over Sky

    Hey there!   In this post, I wanted to talk about the several thoughts and advice that I have gathered from my short time in Voice Over. You are able to get so much from so many people if you’re just willing to take the chance and listen to what they have to say.   To begin, I wanted to reference Buford Taylor’s quote on his about tab on the website Casting Call Club: “Casting Call Club is where you practice. It is a safe place to hone your skills and level yourself up. I've always dreamed that CCC becomes the place that people point to when they are asked how they got started. Some of the success stories coming out of CCC are amazing. We've had people go from 0 to 100,000 YouTube subscribers in a year. We've had people land roles in games like Mass Effect and Nier. But the best feeling isn't the big successes, it's the first.” This website is used by a plethora of voice actors daily as a starting casting website. I wanted to focus on th...

  Hey There!   I wanted to take this time to talk about my thoughts on my most recent video, my reading of “To Be or Not to Be” from Hamlet! I wanted to practice another semi-cold read with another classical piece of work. Just like my personal portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart”, I wanted to use a piece of media that uses classical English to challenge myself.   Just in case you didn’t know, “To Be or Not to Be” is from the classical play Hamlet, written by playwright William Shakespeare. I’m sure most English classes forced their middle or high school students to read or listen to someone portray the piece, but I think most people are at least familiar with the phrase ‘to be or not to be’.   To begin, I wanted to first talk about how challenging this monologue is. It comes from an emotional place where Hamlet is considering suicide over the events that happened in his life with his father and his new stepfather King Claudius. He’s at a dark...

  Hey there!   I wanted to talk about one of the biggest things that continues to help me in my voice over journey: practicing! When it comes to practicing, there’s a plethora of ways for you to improve. For me personally, I like to do a lot of reading and fan work. Whether it’s reading whatever is in front of me at the time or sitting down and reading an excerpt from a scene, I make sure to have fun with it and experiment on new methods.   To begin, I wanted to talk about the few posts I have made on my YouTube channel. To practice video game acting, I dubbed over a scene from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair where the protagonist, Hajime Hinata (played by the fantastic Johnny Yong Bosch), has a breakdown after finding out that has to choose between two heavily imposing choices: his life or the world. I wanted to reference Johnny Yong Bosch’s performance within my take, but I also wanted to really go into depths of the feeling of paranoia/madness ...

       Hey there!   I wanted to talk about my journey with acting before and during my start of voice over. One of the biggest things about voice acting is the presence of acting. Acting skills can only help you more and more through your voice over / voice acting journey.   To begin, I was acting for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, I would recreate scenes with my dad, who has an acting background. We would do these scenes for fun, but I learned a lot about performance from it. One distinct memory was when we were recreating Uncle Ben’s death from the movie “Spider-Man” (directed by Sam Raimi). We’ve done the scene countless times, but for some reason, I cried seeing my dad lie on the floor of our small apartment. When he sat up, ready to ‘parent the situation’, he asked me what was wrong. I responded with many sniffles and tears that “I’m not ready to be Spider-Man.” That memory continues to sit with me when I revisit my beginnings w...