A few days ago my boyfr---I mean fiance (!!!!!!) B asked me to help with with an assignment for his writing class, so last night I went over to work on it. The project consists of a game featuring a choose-your-own adventure storyline that he created. He wanted to record my voice reading the introduction part of the game. I recorded the intro in my normal voice and then again in a "British" accent. Pleased with the results he showered me with comliments and kept saying to his roommates, "She has such a good narrator voice huh!" His roommate said, "Yeah! You should go into voice acting!" Hmmmm....
Funny thing is, it's not the first time I've been complimented on my voice. People claim it's soft, soothing and pleasant to listen to. Ok, I'll take that! I can't remember what I was reading aloud to my friend on a roadtrip once and she emphatically said I ought to consider record audio books. I don't understand it sometimes because I don't think it's all that great! Actually, back when I used to call people on the phone (haha, now I'm often too lazy to call so I'll just send a text instead), I would record and then RE-record (no less than ten times) the message because I thought I sounded to nasally or I mumbled or I sounded too monotone or overly enthusiastic.....
Honestly, voice acting sounds really fun to me! I often break out in different accents in normal conversation too. Oh and there was that one time that B and I went on a group date with his roomies. The other two couples were blind dates and we decided to pretend to be on a blind date too and made up this whole story about how I was from Russia and I was now a nanny but had previously been a nude model for art classes....The story was a bit crazy so to make it slightly more believeable I had to talk with a Russian accent--well, my version of it. In reality it probably wan't authentic but I succeeded in sounding foreign nonetheless. It was really fun! The guys knew and had struggled to keep a straight face, and the girls fell for it (we told them after dinner).
Anyway, back to the voice acting, I like talking in different accents and reading stories to kids using a variety of voices for the characters. Maybe that's a talent worth developing! I think I'll start looking into it.
Thoughts?
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Voice acting would be fun! Especially if you get to work with the people at Pixar! Whatever you do, you'll be a great Mom! Kids LOVE it when you make their toys talk with a different voice for each one. I've discovered that sometimes they won't want to do something if Mommy asks them to but if their stuffed dog asks them to do it in his gruff doggy voice, no problem!
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