The Mic Guy: Adventures in Voiceover

After four weeks of toiling in my dialects and accents workshop, here’s what I’ve discovered:

• My British accent isn’t too shabby. I did a credible Claude Rains riff for the final exercise. And in Prototypes class last evening, my Hugh Grant takeoff favorably impressed some of my fellow actors, who didn’t even realize that it was me.
• Two years of high school German 30 years ago? I got nothing now.
• Two years of living in Greece 35 years ago? Ditto.
• Never attempt an Italian accent in front of a bona fide Italian.
• I can do a pretty effective Southern dialect. But I’d rather not.

Accents are definitely not my strong suit, which is exactly the reason I enrolled in this course. But I now have some tools to work with, and some resources to utilize when the situation demands.

More than anything, I need to listen more.

That’s probably good advice for my life outside of voiceover, too.

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