VO Weekly Workflow: New Year, New Name

In the midst of regrouping and goal setting for the new year, I began to consider that there’s been an inaccuracy with the name of this particular endeavor. When I started publishing these weekly resources, “Tuesday Tech Tip” seemed nicely alliterative and captured the initial intent and likely direction of future posts.

Flash forward to current times, and after more than 200 weekly posts over the last 4 years, a slightly different pattern has emerged, and I feel it’s time the title should reflect that.

After all, specific technical recording tips don’t appear every week. It feels that the overarching theme in these posts and emails trends towards “workflow.”Workflow can certainly contain specific tech tips, and it is by nature a more holistic approach to solving the challenge of delivering high quality work to our clients. 

Voiceover challenges us to find flow, understand timing, use the subtle aspects of our voice, and see scenes playing out in our head. That would be challenge enough. But on top of that, we must capture the performance with our equipment, wrangle files, and hit delivery specs for clients. It’s easy to lose track of how important our mindset is throughout the process. 

Beyond specifics of any given software or system, our recording workflow is about using the tools at hand to enhance what we create. It asks that we show up each day ready to engage. It allows for ebbs and flow of what we produce, establishing confidence and comfort in our process so that we can be focused and creative. The challenges vary widely: the bursts of wild dynamic range in animation and video games, the precision of timed commercial reads, and the narrative flow of audiobook work all challenge us in different ways.

You deserve a holistic workflow that provides a solid foundation for that effort. This is more of a name change than anything else. I look forward to continuing to share my thoughts and technical tips with you. As always, I look forward to your questions and comments to help guide these topics.

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