Hi,
I’m working on some “character” demos and would appreciate feedback from the group. The demos are “Cranky old lady”, supposed to be humorous, and “The Evil Queen”, hopefully not humorous.
Thanks for comments.
Elizabeth
Hello Touzet,
I love both your spots. The rich, deep tones of your voice and the “heartland” delivery make each very believable. They feel like they come straight from the heart. I can easily hear your voice narrating a Clydesdale/Budweiser commercial.
Hi Everyone! I’m brand new to this and working on homework for narration. I just recorded these on my phone for now while I’m still learning my DAW. All feedback welcome 🙂
Thanks in advance!
Runza Restaurant
Here at Runza, many people ask us why we don’t serve breakfast. Our answer is simple, because we’re busy making lunch. We’re up with the roosters each morning to start hand slicing onion rings and making Runza sandwiches. And we wouldn’t have time for that if we had to spend our mornings figuring out how to inject syrup into bread. Seriously, people actually do that, but not us, because we don’t do everything. We do our thing. Runza, the difference is real.
Very cool style. There’s something kind of strange with the recording though. Might be caused by excessive noise reduction application or some other processing.
Sounds great! I felt like I was listening to an add on the radio. I like the pacing you had, and there was just one spot that I felt like the words were maybe run together just a bit. It was at “Runza sandwiches”. That z sound into the s is probably a little tricky. Well done 🙂
I really liked the direction you took this! I could tell you were talking to a kid, but with excitement that wasn’t over the top or talking down to them. Good clear words. Well done 🙂
What a rich, personable sound you have! I thought you started strong with that nice, relatable inflection. The slightly more dramatic changes in pitch after about 0:06 secs makes it feel a little less like a “real” conversation. You could try some visual exercises to really get into where you are, exactly who you’re talking to, and what kind of response you’re trying to get from them. That helps me a LOT. You have a great sound and I hope we continue to hear more from you!
Hello again!
Here are some reads I’ve done for practice, let me know your feedback, it’s greatly appreciated.
Spotify
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Toyota
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Purina One
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Hey Daniel! Nice work throughout! I think your voice is so well suited for the Spotify ad! The only thing I would say to play with is to give the listener a different quality when you get to “right now you’re limited to 6 skips an hour” (ie: lame, right?) so that you can then let them know you’ve got the solution with Premium. With Toyota, I would say maybe watch out for annunciation throughout and pacing. It seemed just a tad rushed (might have been in editing, I’ve done that myself plenty of times.) Purina One also great, I would again focus on annunciation and also the pronunciation of canary. Awesome stuff!
Hey there! I think these are great, the three scripts you picked have a nice range. You have great tone and quality to your voice. I agree with RYoung, especially in the first clip there’s a bit of a staccato with your phrases. The instructional video is a great fit for you! In the second clip there were some sibilant s’ in the second half of your script… I’m not sure what you had the gain set as, but it might also be mic placement. The third clip was super fun! I’d say you can have even more fun/energy with your delivery on it because of the subject matter. Great work!
Technically reads are very well done. They are however slightly staccato. I would try to smooth them out slightly to connect the thoughts better, hope that helps and great work on this!