You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 228.

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 through 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.

In the previous episodes of this podcast, I've stressed how important it is for my listeners to become familiar with some of the best acting performances out there.

In episode 204, I encouraged you all to go hunting for the best acting and storytelling you can find,

especially in genres and forms of media that you might otherwise not have considered before.

Way back in episode 105 of the podcast entitled Know Your Genra, Better Voice Acting Through Immersion,

I explained how crucial it was for an actor to familiarize themselves with the most popular and influential stories in media. And in my most recent interview

with Alejandra Reynoso, she shared how she had the opportunity to experience some of the

best films in existence because her father worked as a projectionist at movie theaters in Los Angeles.

She spent much of her youth watching and enjoying a variety of films with her father.

I've also suggested that my listeners do their best to consume quality entertainment, because it is

far too easy to allow the algorithms of social media and platforms like YouTube, TikTok,

Twitch, and even Netflix, to decide for us what we

should watch next. The algorithm chooses media based on what it thinks we want. It gives us more

of what we've chosen to consume in the past, but it has no conception of what we might need

to experience as artists in order to grow, nor does it care.

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