You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 204.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

Voiceactingmastery.com is your place to learn both the skills and the mindset you need to become a professional voice actor, even if you're just getting started.

In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks, and insider information

to help you portray characters in animation, video games, and beyond.

And now here's your host, voice actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide to the world of voice acting.

If you'd like to know more about me, feel free to check out my personal website at www.crispinfremant.com.

Since episode 128, this podcast has focused primarily on doing in-depth interviews with industry

professionals that I feel have unique insights that will be useful to my listeners.

For this episode, I'm going back to my earlier format of speaking at length on a single topic.

Since this episode is coming out in January of 2024, I thought it might be a good idea to start

out the new year with some valuable advice that I'd like to share with my listeners.

I want to talk about how important it is in today's media environment to go hunting

for the best acting and storytelling you can find. This means not only studying performances, movies, TV shows, and games

that are highly acclaimed or intensely popular, but also researching and understanding the art

and creators who influenced and inspired those projects. The reason I'm suggesting this is because

recently I have found that more and more of my students

not only lack exposure to some of the best acting performances in media, but they also lack

an understanding of how earlier art continues to influence some of the most popular media

franchises today. Without this knowledge and context, those students who are less familiar

with these things are less professionally competitive, those students who are less familiar with these things

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