Another Newbie.... Another Demo!

Lynda Seminara · Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 5

Would love any feedback whatsoever on the attached demo. Feel free to give me the bad and the ugly. Evil or Very Mad

Thanks a bunch! Very Happy

P.S. Additional demos (Spanish, Medical, and more) can be found at http://voice123.com/lyndaseminara

Melba Sibrel · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008, 01:59 (GMT) Post subject:

I fed your back at your original post in the Newbie section.

So I'll leave you alone here. Wink

Lee Kanne · **Voice Talent** Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 129

the last :80 or so narration, you really need to take off of this demo and move it over to a whole other demo...I don't really think the medical narration is your forte...there's lots of other kinds of things you can put in an industrial/narration demo....I would steer away from the medical stuff, you sound too young..

the problem with the first spot for me is you didn't really sound like you were engaging in real dialogue...I think you could have gone more over the top with it ... with your dialogue being responses to his dialogue....it sounds kind of flat now...

the editing needs to be sharper too..

overall though, you have a cool, kind of hip, in demand vocal quality...a little fine tuning of this demo and you should be on
your way!!

Lynda Seminara · Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 5

Lee, Thanks so much for your feedback. Great suggestions!

On that first spot (soup), my demo producer added his dialogue after my recording session -- so I guess it's no surprise that the spot doesn't work well or sound genuine.

I've asked that the medical narrative be removed.

Both you and Melba feel I sound too young for medical narratives/ads. Funny....I had been thinking it might be a niche for me 'cause I've been writing and editing medical materials for 20 years -- which also tells ya I really ain't so young after all. Smile

Thank you again -- very much!

Lynda

Melba Sibrel · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008, 17:54 (GMT) Post subject:

Voice age doesn't always have anything to do with chronology, though the voice tends to "settle" as we age. Your voice sounds "young" to us because it has little texture, is dynamically thin and relatively flat. Those aren't insults, by the way. Just a way of describing how your voice sounds. That sound does not lend itself to serious, authoritative, ugent or comforting, which are all common directives in the medical VO field. One of the keys to viability in VO is being able to hear, identify and accept your voice strengths and limitations.

Lynda Seminara · Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 5

Melba, Thank you again! I hope you saw my reply to you in the "Newbie" section. BTW, you are awesome and then some! So versatile! A VO Idol for sure!

Lee Kanne · **Voice Talent** Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 129