![]() ![]() "I'm using the acting skills I've learned over the years to make me feel genuine about what I'm saying, whereas if you're just reading it, it might come across a little different, a little more flat." "I kind of looked away when I was doing the KAY because I'm thinking about: 'Who am I talking to? What does this mean to me?'" she said. One pro tip to help you really sell your duet if you record one, though-Young says don't simply read the script. Kirschner and Young both acknowledge that the "Commercial VO Challenge" is hard, but they say it's very different from the average voiceover experience, which usually involves more takes and more direction about characters. "So I saw the challenge, but then I got tagged like seven more times and I was like, 'Alright, I guess they want me to do this. ![]() "My followers were tagging me in it, which is why I started it by being like, 'I'm being summoned,' and if I had known that it was gonna be seen as much, I wouldn't have said that, I feel like I sound so do**he-y," she said, laughing. At the time of this article's publication, her duet had pulled in 7.7 million views. She told Newsweek in a phone call that friends and followers encouraged her to try the challenge. Young regularly shows off her voice-acting talents on TikTok, performing well-known ads (like the Spotify ad buffer) and the voices of animated characters (including Harley Quinn from Batman: The Animated Series). In addition to everyday TikTokers who haven't ever stepped into a recording booth before, a few professional voice actors have also hopped on the trend, including the Los Angeles-based Shelby Young, 28, who has done voice work for TV series like Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, in which she voiced Princess with I really wanna hear do this challenge! #fyp #voiceover #voiceacting ♬ original sound - Noble Son "I figured since I have the equipment and I have the skill from the editing and production side, that I'd throw it together and I did it in just a couple hours." There was so much interest in it, but I didn't see much content that was professionally produced that gave other people the opportunity to try voiceover," he said. "I felt like there was a lot of people that wanted to try voiceover. Kirschner, who also makes music under the name Noble Son, only started his TikTok about a month ago and learned quickly, from a video of him doing outtakes for a local ad, that people are interested in voice-work. "I wanted to give people the sampler of what it's like to be a voice actor in 40 seconds so having to go from each extreme of what you might be asked to do." "I wanted to have variation," Kirschner said, when discussing how he settled on the brands and styles to include in the exercise. (Kirschner also performed the challenge in his own duet with □ #voiceover #voiceactor #challenges_tiktok #actingchallenge #commercial ♬ original sound - Noble Son When you get to the text for a made-up medical brand, be sure to sound "Upbeat." Adopt an "Intimate" tone for the Kay copy, and try to convey "Quirky/Fun" energy when plugging the Planet Fitness bit. ![]() For instance, for the Nike ad script, Kirschner suggests you take a "Cool" approach. In a Zoom call with Newsweek, Kirschner called it "voiceover auditioning on steroids."Īside from the scripts, Kirschner-who has done voiceover work for brands like Kleenex, as well as TV series such as My Little Pony-also offers some guidance to those taking the "Commercial VO Challenge," by offering some directions on how to perform the material. Kirschner encourages people to duet his video, which has been viewed 2.4 million times so far, and read the copy that pops up onscreen. In his initial video, he calls on TikTokers to try their hand (or, rather, their vocal cords) at performing four different commercial voiceovers in under a minute. Vancouver-based musician and voice actor Adam Kirschner, 32, started the "Commercial Voiceover Challenge" on Sunday. Lately, a ton of TikTokers have been testing their chops to see if they could make it as commercial voice actors, as part of a new trend that's been spreading all over the app. Being a voiceover actor might sound like a dream job to many: performing without having to show your face or memorize lines, but still managing to captivate people with just the sound of your voice.
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