I attended a three hour "Investigate Voice Over" workshop in June of this year presented by Edge Studio. The following is my evaluation from that workshop:
"You have an amazing texture and a rich voice, and a terrific intuitive delivery. You are a story teller, without a doubt, with great potential. Very naturally deliberate, possibly a tad slow, but it's refreshing when so many people rush. You will need to work on implementing direction to change or modify one aspect of performance (tone, rhythm or pitch) w/o changing the other two aspects. Had a little trouble going faster but keeping the rich texture of the initial performance. But you can hear it, and I believe simply needs a good coach.
Based on your performance during the workshop, and knowing what casting professionals are looking for, you displayed many strengths and definitely possess the potential to be a working voice actor! You have a marketable voice, the ability to tackle reads with confidence, and most of the basic techniques come easily to you. We do not “green light” every single person in the class, so congratulations! Hopefully this is something you will choose to pursue, and if you do, we'll always be glad to help you any way we can. So, enjoy your training (and seriously, please take advantage of all the classes that are included so you're completely ready to get into the industry!). We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with you.
You have an incredible, one of a kind voice, Dianne, and it was a pleasure working with you. I'd love to see you continue and go as far as you want to go with this path. I believe you will really excel in storytelling and narration. Your voice has a lovely, rich tone that is simply magical! A pleasure working with you last night, and I look forward to seeing your progress."
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