You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery episode number 91.

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In this episode, I'd like to discuss the vital importance of incorporating one's physicality into a voice-acting performance.

This is a challenge that comes up often when I'm teaching my students, both in my group classes, and during individual private coaching sessions.

Often, I will be working with a student who is quite capable,

knows how to listen and take direction, and may even have wonderful natural acting instincts.

But, their performances consistently fall flat because they do not engage their body when acting.

Their mind and even their emotions may be fully engaged, but something

is still missing, and it affects the believability of their reeds. What is this mysterious missing

something, and why is it so important to put your physicality into your performance when voice

acting? After all, you're in a small padded room with a mic in front

of you. How physical can you really be anyway? Because voice acting does happen in a booth,

and not on a stage or in front of a camera, with sets, props, and costumes, it can sometimes

seem less like a physical performing art art and more like a mental exercise.

There is a common misconception that if you speak the words correctly and understand the emotions in a scene,

your acting should be believable regardless of what your body is doing.

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