Ego and Voiceover - Learning something every day
Posted 15-03-2009 at 02:07 PM by voicy1stef
Tags career, confidence, lettinggo, self-improvement, voiceover
The other day I was working on a project. A colleague offered to help.
My first thought was ‘that’s ok’ I can handle this. Then — perhaps as a result of all the positive reading that I’ve done and podcasts that I’ve listened to — another thought came to mind, and the actual words that came out of my mouth were in the vein of…’this is what I’ve done — what do you think? How can I improve it?’.
In another instance a respected colleague said to me, ‘move this to the beginning of your demo, and dump this other demo, it doesn’t work for me’.
I thought about it and said, ok…I respect this person’s opinion & experience…I’m going to follow his advice.
I’ve spent much time in the past ‘protecting myself’ and forging ahead. I’ve discovered it’s liberating to work as part of a team and ask for help and feedback.
The voiceover world is no place for those of a delicate disposition of one kind or another. In the studio, it’s good and necessary, to be open to client feedback and different interpretations. We might think we did a stellar read — but if the client wants it done a totally different way — we must open up to being “schooled” and do the revised version with enthusiasm and love for the craft. Humility is a good thing sometimes. There’s strength in letting go and flowing.
My first thought was ‘that’s ok’ I can handle this. Then — perhaps as a result of all the positive reading that I’ve done and podcasts that I’ve listened to — another thought came to mind, and the actual words that came out of my mouth were in the vein of…’this is what I’ve done — what do you think? How can I improve it?’.
In another instance a respected colleague said to me, ‘move this to the beginning of your demo, and dump this other demo, it doesn’t work for me’.
I thought about it and said, ok…I respect this person’s opinion & experience…I’m going to follow his advice.
I’ve spent much time in the past ‘protecting myself’ and forging ahead. I’ve discovered it’s liberating to work as part of a team and ask for help and feedback.
The voiceover world is no place for those of a delicate disposition of one kind or another. In the studio, it’s good and necessary, to be open to client feedback and different interpretations. We might think we did a stellar read — but if the client wants it done a totally different way — we must open up to being “schooled” and do the revised version with enthusiasm and love for the craft. Humility is a good thing sometimes. There’s strength in letting go and flowing.
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