Finding Your Voice
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2016
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All this time and I didn't know my whole life was a existential crisis. "if you haven't found your voice in life, there is no way you can find your voice behind a microphone" thank you. I am now going to cry in my closet.
Right!?
At least you'll have great acoustics there.
So it’s “Finding YOUR voice” much more than “Finding your VOICE”.
Thanks for that, Bill. Profound! Really drives the point home that voiceover, like music or painting, is ART at the core.
I understand what it means to "find your voice" now. I just am worried I may not be able to. I have struggled with adapting my personality to better fit in with certain people my whole life. I can't remember how I saw and felt about things myself. I've started seeing a therapist and we are working to help me "find my voice".
Thank you for this video, it's quite amazing!
How has the therapy worked? I am considering the same thing.
@@RuberSocks It wasn't much help for me personally. However, I've grown more as a person and have found my voice. I still struggle to express my voice but I have found my voice. I'm now just working on expressing it. I highly recommend therapy for finding your voice. Though it didn't help me as much as I liked I don't believe I'd have been able to get on the path to do so at all.
@@dumbbumsc5329 Thank you! I know therapy probably works because my own life situation recently just improved, which suddenly gave my voice a lot more energy. In other words, a therapist who can help improve your life situation will improve your vocal energy!
I will be looking for a good therapist though, because I know a lot are iffy and don't have much life experience.
The voice of the squishy, unsure people pleaser!
Love this. I found my "voice" by taking a deep dive into my core values. I've found my beautiful, amazing, authentic life and I'm not giving it up for anything. Thanks for your words of wisdom.
This advice is on point. Acting skills are a must in this business if you want to compete at the highest levels, but part of what the client is hiring you for is YOU. What YOU bring to the table. That's personality. Perspective. i.e., your (inner) voice.
In short, it's about whether one has had a philosophical journey. Thanks for this video, Bill. - from Mumbai, India.
This feels like someone telling me infinity is forever, I understand but can't comprehend.
Paradigm changed. Awesome teaching my friend. Thankyou.
Finding my true voice began when I stopped trying not to be an ahole... true story, I was stressing out that every one from my wife (who is my number one human) best friends and coworkers kept telling me I was a jurk or ahole or any number of things. And the harder I tryed to change the MORE people seemed to not want to be around me or work with me. So one day I was just done and was just an ahole...and *every thing changed!* My wife and I just clicked, my boss and colleagues were haveing fun being around me and strangers enjoying meeting me. It was not that I was rude or told people off, I just stopped caring how I looked or sounded or acted and was just me. I still struggle with it time to time but gone are hours wasted building personality sound stages that were just empty fronts for the scared child within me.
Thank you for reading my experience, I hope it helps finding your voice.
I would love to hear how you made the transition. In my situation, I had to come to the realization that what I thought and felt was what really mattered. I also had to come to grips with the truth that sometimes I was unbearable. Working in a business partnership with my sons as equals helped. They called me out when I went off inappropriately.
I wish I could have learned that when I was in the corporate world.
@@doylesanders I think the short story is that I just snapped, but in a good way.
That is not perfectly true as several things had lead this incident that were very positive. From successive dreams that I had that vented my fears to meeting people who had walked a similar path helped me on my journey.
I am still 20 years later learning not to let my past dictate my now but in all my life is good. Even in this crazy world we live in I know that I can't save the world with out as Jordan Peterson said "Making my own bed first."
I hope my words helped you my friend.
*Peace, if we can keep it*
@@therasheck Yes, I feel you, brother. Sometimes, others have to help us see our paths...
“The dialogue in your head” 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Mark I will see your two thumbs up and I will raise you one. One for each time Bill mentioned a therapist and 1 the standard thumbs up. As a professional therapist I can't agree with you more Bill. The sooner you find your voice the sooner your anxiety drops off and you are genuine even in front of your microphone.
Thank you for the valuable information..keep guiding us..
I "liked" this video a while ago because it's so spot-on, and when it came up again in a marketing e-mail from Bill I listened again. It's still great stuff. Getting to know yourself and being comfortable with yourself can make worlds of difference in how you are seen in many areas of life. It's been a long, slow process for me, and has to be done consciously at first. Eventually you become comfortable at not thinking about how other people perceive you, just being yourself in the moment, and it becomes natural. Then, as Bill says in the video, you have found your voice. It's an exercise well worth fighting through.
Thanks for this, Bill! It is easy to get caught up in what we think others (coaches, agents, clients) want to hear, and forget about authenticity.
Thanks Bill. Being authentic is one of THE BIGGEST challenges. Timely reminder. :-)
love it man, thank you very much!
I think this is the top to videos.. In this Channel.... This is the way to be...
Hey #BillDeWees - What a great statement, "If you haven't found your true voice in life You will never find it behind a microphone" Good stuff! We can't hide, behind anything and truly become...
Cool!
Zen and the Art of the Voice Over!
To my way of thinking, the best way to find "your voice" is to read poetry. Kipling and Poe are highly recommended.
"The Roadsong of the Bandarlog" by the former and "Lenore" by the latter. Read these over and over - out loud of course - and after a week, your voice will manifest itself.
Also wonderful are Poe's other poems about dead young women:
"Ulalume"; "Eilalie"; "Annabelle Lee".
If you can pull out the emotions locked in those poems, you're home free...
Deepest comment and guidance In the sea of VO I have heard thus far. Thanks for sharing, I'm off to find my voice!
Thanks Bill, this is as good as it gets! I believe that I have found my voice, I just cannot always find it when I need it! :-)
Sometimes I truly forget so this reminder is spot on...
I like this video. I'm at the age of where I have found my singing voice, my voice at work in customer service, and confidence in myself. This is very encouraging even for more than just Voice Over's. Thank you for your videos. I'm learning.
This was deep. You really made me think about my own life and voice. Truly awesome advice.
Loved the message. There is no substitution for authenticity!
Hi Bill DeWees, thank you very much for this inspiring video. It really touched something in me. I'm currently editing my first youtube video ever with voice over and I'm extremely surprised how hard it is for me. Even despite the fact, that I'm a quite good amateur theater actor. Recording voice over is way more personal and hard for me than acting on a stage. And than, what you said about the chameleon behavior and being rejected struck me like a lightning. That's not only voice over coaching, that's way more...
Bill, I have always valued and appreciated your time in doing these UA-cam videos but I have to say this is one of the best. It is thought provoking and introspective, it makes you step away from stereotype voice descriptions and value what is a God-given gift and to learn how to use that gift each and every day. Thankyou
Having understanding of your own internal voice is so vital in life and no question to be believable in voice over. So many people ignore this part of themselves and aren’t willing to take the time to look inward. Thx for this reminder bill. Quality advice.👌
Watching this right in the middle of auditions...PERFECT timing!
Thanks, as always, Bill!
How ya do?
Thank you, Bill, for illuminating an aspect of one's character that makes us authentic...i.e. I don't want to be your friend...I want to understand you!
It was beautiful!!!!
i dont know if i misunderstood, but i am just getting interested in voice over work just for fun. never done it, but the way id go about it is... if you are playing a character for example, who is the character? why are they saying what they are saying? how are they saying it...
character : boss
line : i want those papers on my desk first thing in the morning.
in this case you would have to be demanding, a bit angry and firm.
if you are not playing a character you are the character... so you have to decide as the character you are, how would you say this line? why are you saying it?.. how does it make you feel? whats the context? but i am probably very far off what you are talking about right? like i said i have never done voice acting before and that is my outlook on it.
Thank You! The best advise I have received for a long time. You are so right.
And your authenticity flowed right through you.
Really true!!! Well explained
I loved this, Bill. To be uniquely you, expressing your thoughts, opinions, essence, seriously takes courage!
Amazing and true to the bone! Thank you Bill!
Wow! Thank you for this! Excellent advice!!! 🙌🙌🙌
Love this advice! Thank!!
Bill thank you so much. Absolutely connects.
Thanks for sharing this incredible wisdom!!
That's a very interesting way of looking at finding your voice. A signature voice is how you sound and what attitude or feelings you carry across to others. But in the examples you give its more finding your inner voice and what are your truths and passions. As actors we can pretend to like the precepts of a spot we are voicing, but if our moral compass or internal voice doesn't align with it, it may be tougher to be believable to others for that audition or job.
This is why many creative people drink. Sometimes, between glasses of wine, or whiskey, or rum, the true voice springs forth unafraid to be heard! LOL
Awesome Love~! Thank You!
Great video, thanx for the great advice... I 'found' my voice years ago, as a retired professional drummer, who would also sing lead and back up, I have been told I have a good voice, but the trouble is, I don't like my voice, singing or talking. Now, I have 16 'Strange and Scary Stories' on Rakuten Kobo, Booksie, Wattpad, Facebook and other places and am getting ready to make them into audio books, hence the reason I am watching this video and others like them.
Absolutely brilliant, thank you Bill.
Thank you, Bill! I really needed to hear this.
Well stated and positioned, Bill!
Outstanding and a little sobering - thank you for your generosity in sharing all this knowledge. Sure puts "choosing the best mic" in perspective -:)
Exactly, thanks for saying it!
Here's what I'm hearing you say, Bill. To find your true, authentic voice as a VO artist is to find your true, authentic self or personality, the one that is or should be projected behind the microphone, as opposed to finding your true, authentic niche, which I would define as finding the genre of VO work that fits you best, which is within your comfort zone, and knowing what is not. In that sense, finding your voice and finding your niche are two separate issues. Does any of that make any sense at all? Hope so!
Steve Krumlauf
Yeah
Thanks Bill. That was revealing.
Thank you so much for this video.
Really needed to hear this!
Your videos are so good, so well-presented. Thank you.
WOW!!! Powerful video!!!
Thank you so much for creating this video and your other videos. I do hope I can meet you in person someday.
Surprising but sound advice. Thank you.
Great video. Thank you Bill. Always appreciate your honesty and guidance in this business.
thank you.
you really helped me
Very thoughtful advice. Thank you
Amazing thanks. You're a great teacher really appreciate your videos
On point advice and insights!
Finding your voice in life, damn! That is the best advice I've heard about voice overs hitherto
Brilliant video.
This video is EVERYTHING! Thank you, Bill.
Thanks Lauren!
Amen! Truth!
Fantastic video. Once again massive ahas and surprisingly deep outcome from what I 1st thought was going a very different direction with this topic. THANK YOU. Super helpful.
Thanks bill
Awesome insight!!
Great, as always!
Bill, Thanks so much for your transparency and the "real deal" information. I am a self-actualizer and it is a daily task to make sure I bring "the real me" to the table. I then apply this to my voiceover career to insure I bring the "real me" to that script. I can tell when I don't ....Bill, I appreciate you..
I still sound like a shy loser.
Wow, Bill, this could be the most important message of all that you have for us in your audience. It's far more important than the right gear and more important than developing talent. My only question is that I'm still searching for my voice and I enjoy reading fiction, but when I listen to myself reading a variety of things, the emotion and depth isn't there. Is it just a matter of continuing to find my voice and choosing the _right kind_ of fiction for me to read? There's a temptation to believe that I can just do an audiobook for whatever genre and book that I'm interested in reading.
Incredible.
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Very interesting video, insightful, thanks!
Wish I could somehow give this two thumbs up! You mention that marketing people tend to do the chameleon thing, and I imagine that's true but I'm not from that world so I wouldn't be able to speak first hand. However I have some first hand experience with this in another context. I have begun to think that a conservative Christian background may actually be something of a hindrance in this matter of knowing ourselves, making it hard to discover our true inner voice. So often that environment (often inadvertently) rewards conformity so much that those of us in "the group" don't even realize how our real self gets buried, or we're so afraid we'll be discovered as to not "measure up" or be perfect in whatever image the leader of the group projects, that we just hide. That's the essence of in-authenticity, that we put our real self behind a mask. This makes it very hard to be authentic in any area. I'm not talking about blatant hypocrisy here either, just the kind of conformity that seems to pervade many such groups, both in fundamentalism and to a somewhat lesser extent in evangelicalism. It's been a VERY long process for me to get to the point where I think I'm close to really knowing who I am, relating to each aspect of my life authentically. Nice to finally get here, given that I'm turning 55 in a few months. Really good stuff in this video. Thanks!
Mark...I completely resonate with you words. That was my background as well. At age 57 I'm work very hard at finding my REAL self and bringing that to my work. The deeper I dig and the further the mask comes off, the better my vo career gets! Hang in there!
Go to a Christian addiction recovery group... I mean it! I found that my brothers in Christ were human and imperfect like myself. As a convert and a bit of a non conformist I struggled with how "clean and boring " everyone was. I discovered that I was being very judgmental in thinking that I was being judged. Christ is perfect, he doesn't need you to be, he wants you to be yourself, just better!
Love you and pray that every day rocks for you and is a blessing!
Bill DeWees
You are looking good at 59 brother! Just hit the 50 myself, that is why I am watching your videos. I am ready to do what I love and want to do! Why not, my Mom and Dad always said I loved the sound of my own voice!
Beautiful !
superb sir, Thank you very much
Nice thanks!
I think that was therapy...
You just earned yourself a sub, good sir 😊
Thanx ! really useful
Brautiful... heartfelt..
Oh man, I need this explanation. I was strugling here in front of the microphone for a couple of days trying to find something in the sound of my voice .. but I was never sure what I was searching for.
Thanks for that🤍
Very intriguing words.
Great Advice. 😁
Hi Bill. I can see how you use the reference to the chameleon and you make greta points. In my branding I use a chameleon icon because their ability to change colors is more likened to the emotional draw that we rely on as voiceover artists. The range of emotions that allows one to color the words. Great stuff from you as always!
Nice wisdom 👏🏿 ✌🏾👍🏾
Bill, I've been watching your videos and think they are really helpful. I've done voice work for years...and I know my voice, but still struggle at times to let it be heard. The common struggles of life creep in sometimes to create that self-doubt. It really DOES make a difference to do voice work from the place of "the real you". Works on my radio show too.
Keep up the great work!
Bill, Thanks for this. You are dealing with very deep waters here and its very courageous of you. It raises the discussion for a follow up video. How do I decide on which jobs do I audition for based on "my voice"? Can I be authentic based on how I really feel about products like this, or this particular client, etc. I always get great value from every one of your videos. Thanks so much! - Stephen
Wow! This is a great video :)
Very nice video.
Very deep concept
Hey bill it's just awesome.. The video seems more philosophical Bryson towards voice over. ... :) thank u so much
Thx
that's so true
I had a pretty consistent voice on-air but radio is totally different from voice overs and voice acting.
Hey Bill I'm Gunther, I just heard your 2016 audition tape and you sound all kinds of good. My question has to do with your processing; on a couple of your spots you had this really slick filtered exciter sound to your voice. How did you achieve that sound, Is that done by have a great mic or great setting on your DAW.
me literally just trying to get better at narration and the first thing you tell me is to go the therapy, that's cold man
I would say that your 'voice' is your musical instrument - and you are putting this out for hire to fulfill different objectives, and of course you want to be able to give the customer exactly what they need-hence the chameleon approach. But just like a musician you need to have a distinctive quality, and an authentic delivery - you can tell a solo is being played by Eric Clapton because he has trademark qualities, I see a lot of parallels between musicians and voice artists.
Thanks! Interesting. I wanna know if you ve been told to reach the children, will it be hard or easy for , as long as you know they are more authentic and true to themselves?
How does one go about finding someone like you to sit down with and get things done. Because bad Google results and getting ripped off are getting kind of frustrating at this point.