LEADS AND READS - WEEK OF 09/24 thru 09/30

Heather Cooper · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007, 04:36 (GMT) Post subject:

I was trying to go back a remember all the great stuff from this week. Can't keep up.......

Sid, Wow on the B. G. read. I was looking for the red sea to part! Laughing

Very voice of God!

Robert, I really liked the tone of your B.G. spot. I found it very persuasive.

Maggie, I always enjoy your characters! Even though I liked both characters....I found the river chick very hypnotic. Which was awesome.

Robert Jadah · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007, 05:24 (GMT) Post subject:

Heather is a chicken, Heather is a chicken, Heather is a chicken...

Posting on a Sunday evening, when nobody's here. And the thread goes POOF! in the morning.
Too bad for them, 'cuz they'll miss a very, very strong Ruby on your second take there, Heather.
You put a good twist and accent on it; you were playful. It was solid.

You didn't, however, pull of the sad mother.
That was just a lovely little text: poignant and wistful. It needs very special treatment.
I had a similar little bit in-studio last year; a Pfeizzer corporate video where I was voicing a fella who had lost his wife to cancer.
The director wasn't thrilled with my first take.
"Sorry; I didn't feel it," he said.
I asked for half a minute, closed my eyes, and thought about my mother, who we had lost some six months previous.

I read it again, and there was a fairly long silence pounding in my head-set.

"There won't be a dry eye in the house," he finally said.

I bore you with that, Heather, only to suggest that you draw on some experience and deep feeling to bring home such a piece of pathos. It has to be real. Otherwise, it sounds pretty corny.

Voice On!

Heather Cooper · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007, 05:40 (GMT) Post subject:

OMG my feathers are showing!!! I thought I had them all nicely tucked away! Yes, I will proudly say baawk bawk bawk bawwwkkkk, sratch, sratch! Wink

Ok, but in my own defense.....Sunday is officially my first day of 'my' weekend.....so I don't always have time to jump on the forum... Sad

Robert,
Thanks for the advice and the story. I do understand completely what you are saying. I get in my own way sometimes. I struggle with reads were I am playing a parent or the like. I don't have kids, so relating to kid topics in a script can be hard for me. But, I need to remember that is doesn't matter were the emotion comes from......I don't need to be so literal! Very Happy