Posts by Dian Perry
Embracing the Virtual
These are strange times, indeed. The world has turned upside down and we are all faced with adapting nearly every facet of our lives. Our busy days of commuting and rushing around have been refocused in a big way and, apart from the people we share a home with, our communications have largely gone virtual.…
Read MoreThe Psychology of Narration
Setting the Dials for More Intuitive Reads You’re walking down the street and you’re thinking ‘Bend knee, move leg forward, straighten leg, set down heel, lean forward, lift the other leg…’ Of course not. You would fall over (and possibly be stopped by a beat cop and given a sobriety test). Walking, for the most…
Read MoreKind of Teaching
There seems to be a trend amongst some voiceover coaches towards ‘tough love’ and ‘brutal honesty’. Lately I’ve heard many accounts of students’ encounters with coaches which have left them feeling incapable, unconfident and sometimes downright discouraged. I have even experienced this myself recently as I was reaching out for career guidance. What is going on here?…
Read MorePuzzle Wisdom
Last December, I gave myself the gift of some much needed down time. It had been a crazy, wonderful, fraught, busy, awesome year. I was on my own, so I snuggled up on the couch with a blanket, a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and The Shawshank Redemption on the tv in the background. I was…
Read MoreMonkey Fear, Monkey Don’t
I’m a student of human nature. Luckily, there are oodles of humans around to provide a very diverse learning environment. I’m grateful for the times when I’m awake enough to learn something. This week’s class took place on the overground train to London. What I’ve observed has to do with empty seats (the brass ring on…
Read MoreSwitching Gears
We all know the old saying ‘It’s never too late’. I always used to feel a slight irritation whenever anyone said that to me, because I couldn’t really take it in. Somewhere deep down, I felt it was too late. Missed that turn. Botched that decision. Too far along in life now for that to happen.…
Read MoreEmoji Magic with Motorola, VML and Passion Pictures
Every once in a while, the perfect work day comes along. A day that just feels like the culmination of decades of graft, practise and experience. A day when you get to use every item in your bag of tricks and even invent new ones on the fly. Where it feels like you’re meeting up…
Read MoreOf all the workshops in all the towns…
The following blog was written by Lisa Rost-Welling for The VoiceOver Network after she attended ‘Character Development for Animation and Beyond’ in July. The intensive, 2 day workshop was designed especially for The VoiceOver Network and was held at Casual Films in North London. It is reproduced here with kind permission. POP! GOES THE FILTER:…
Read MoreTrain of Thought
I’ve been a voice artist (voice talent to us Yanks) for quite a while now and I have a confession to make – over the years I’ve become a bit lazy. What ever happened to that young woman with a fire in her belly – that feisty, determined wannabe who was hell-bent on breaking into…
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