Acting with the Voice: The Art of Recording Books (Limelight) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have read many books on the topic of Voice-Over acting. I can't think of any even close to as awful as this one. The only thing I can compare it to is perhaps if your were interested in singing and bought a book that turned out to be 100% devoted to telling you how great Opera is, and how beneath contempt all other forms of singing are. Note, I said telling you, not even teaching you, as there is no attempt to teach anything in this book. In between the totally condescending and insulting text are pages and pages of scripts to practice that are simply useless at best. The words "pulp fiction" appear countless times, and every time in a more derogatory and insulting manner. To this author, the Robert Ludlum's, Dale Brown's, and Tom Clancy's of the world are on the same level as ax-murderers and child molester, and if you don't agree you are an idiot.

After the first few pages it is practically unreadable. Since you will learn nothing if you do,don't force yourself as I did. I have always found some small redeeming value in every book I have read. This is the exception that proves the rule.

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Robert Blumenfeld on recording books:"Knowledge of literature, and a passion for telling stories, are essential.""Recording books is a skill, a craft and an art. You are playing characters, but you can't project too much. You have to bring it all the way down. It's a very intimate art form. The microphone picks up every rustle and nuance, not unlike a camera doing a close-up.""You don't even have to look the part. You will have the pleasure of playing roles for which you may be the wrong physical type, and in which as a consequence you would never be cast in a film or stage adaptation."
Acting with the Voice offers hard practical advice on getting started in and pursuing the craft of recording books, and excellent literary samples to nourish the reader's practice. The "Notes, Comments and Hints" sections in each chapter are filled with historical tidbits that are informative, in context, and aptly illustrate the meaning and perspective behind the excerpts chosen.
Acting with the Voice includes this and more:Getting Started in the Book Recording Business (Getting an Agent, The Casting Process, The Recording Session: What a Director Expects, Publishers of Recorded Books in the US, Book Recording in the UK and Canada )The Voice (Finding Your Voice, Paralinguistics: How to Do Different Voices, Vocal Exercises)Diction and Pronunciation (Phonetics, Positions of Vocal Apparatus, Practice Exercises for Good Diction)Microphone and General Recording TechniqueActing Methods and TechniquesReading Techniques (Preparing the Text for Recording, Charles Dickens: His Public Readings, Helen Potter's Impersonations)Recording Prose Fiction (Understanding Style and Period, Reading Different Kinds of Scenes, The Character's Voice: Creating a Character Vocally, Using Accents)Recording Plays Recording PoetryRecording Nonfiction: Making the Text Come Alive (Essays and Philosophy, Autobiography and Memoirs, Illustrative Texts: Biography)
And excerpted works by these writers and others: Susan B. Anthony, Jane Austen, Honore de Balzac, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Clemens, Anton Chekhov, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, James Weldon Johnson, Michel de Montaigne, Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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