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Tips for Toy Voices
Last month Cristina Ulloa of Creativity taught a Voices for Toys class. Her top five tips for voicing toys:
1.) MAKE IT FUN - Making it Positive & Appealing to Kids. Make it fun no matter what!
2.) DICTION & CLARITY - Educational Content & Sound Processing Concerns. Remember that YOU, Your Voice, is setting an example & teaching children. Not only that, but you have to do it in 8k!
3.) KEEP IT UP! STAMINA - Maintaining Your Energy & Character. Okay, so you've got the energy but can you keep it going for 4 hours of letters and numbers?
4.) GO FOR IT! - Don't be Afraid to go Over the Top.
Let it go. Don't be afraid to do some really wacky stuff. It's rarely too much in toy recording. Most of the time, the wackier the better!
5.) VOICES / SKILLS TO PRACTICE & DEVELOP
· Sound-alikes & characters
· Singing & singing in character
· Educational product voice types
· Child voices (if applicable)
· Concatenated speech
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Look Who's Talking
 · Congratulations to Rosemary Medeiros & Markus Hayes who signed with JE Talent and to Nicole Kirkes who signed with Stars.
· John Prudhont has had a busy few weeks - he played Kathy Griffin's Plastic Surgeon for the 2009 Bravo A-List Awards show, a Detective in "Mad City," and he recorded a VO for a mock PSA that will air during the Spike TV 2009 "Guys Choice" show.
· Annette Oliveira played a neurotic astronaut in "Love in Space" for Shoestring Radio.
· Mark Nelson recorded a VO for an online software instruction video. He also recorded character voices for a series of management training programs and
has an ongoing job for an eLearning company recording creative writing lessons. In addition, he just published his fifteenth audiobook at audible.com/iTunes.
· Jenny Debevec starred in an Indie short, The Exquisite Pain.
· Steven Thomas did a teleprompter job for ELT.
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