Creative Brilliance with Improv

Long before you lay eyes on your next script, you should be thinking about how your improv skills can help you stand out. Anne & Lau share their practical advice for integrating improv into your voice over work + act out some improved scenes for the Bosses! Improv is about being in the moment and responding to what is happening around you. Rehearsed speech sounds unnatural and stilted because it doesn’t reflect the way people actually speak. If a script is written the way you’d like it to be written, great! But if it isn’t written that way, then it is still your responsibility to make it believable. Improv requires imagination & creativity, which are both important elements of succeeding as a voice actor. Bosses, your voices are vehicles for storytelling, emotion, and world building.

 
Transcript

 

It’s time to take your business to the next level, the BOSS level! These are the premiere Business Owner Strategies and Successes being utilized by the industry’s top talent today. Rock your business like a BOSS, a VO BOSS! Now let’s welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.

 

Anne: Hey, hey everyone. Welcome to the VO BOSS podcast and the BOSS Superpower series. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza, and I have with me my very special guest co-host Lau Lapides. 

 

Lau: Hey Anne. 

 

Anne: Hey Lau. How are you? 

 

Lau: I'm awesome. Great to be back. 

 

Anne: Ah, it's good to have you back Lau. 

 

Lau: Okay, here's the situation. Ready? Here we go. You just bought a car, and you're picking it up for the first time. They even sprayed that new car smell. And it's shining and gorgeous. Had a little bow on top. Give me a moment of pre-life. Like what's the exclamation you make before you speak? 

 

Anne: (screams) Oh my God, I'm so excited! I can't wait to get my car today! 

 

Lau: Oh, and I would do this. I would go, ooooh, I'm so excited. I can't wait to get my car today. 

 

Anne: I think it was important. I had some good physicality back there behind my mic here. 

 

Lau: We both did. We both were like exploding. 

 

Anne: So what is that, BOSSes? What are we talking about? Mmm?

 

Lau: Mmm, I think