>Your voice dropping pitch after plasma donation is certainly an odd phenomenon, but the more I think about it the more it makes total physiological sense. Higher pitches are produced by faster moving air, and after donating your blood glucose may have dropped leading to a slight reduction in available energy for your diaphragm and other air moving muscles. A decrease in plasma will also lead to a decrease in blood pressure, and correspondingly a decrease in the 'swollen-ness' (to use a technical term) of the throat spaces. This might open things up and allow for a slightly larger resonant chamber and perhaps even slightly less high tension vocal cords dropping the pitch of produced sound. >A closet probably makes for a pretty darn good VO studio. The hanging clothes are probably very effective sound dampeners, leading to a similar effect as the foam wedges and the like in professional studios. >Continuing to pursue auditions is good advice. Probability applied to the real world helps us understand why determination, grit, or 'never giving up' are such useful traits; the greater the number of events the greater the likelihood that outcomes - even those with low probability - will be seen. I first heard this applied to starting a business - take for instance starting a restaurant. If it's true (which it's not) that 90% of restaurants fail in the first year, then starting 10 restaurants means you have a 75% chance that one of those will succeed (use the geometric distribution). >Your VO demo reel is very good. Since you're worried about differentiation I'd say Cymbalta is pretty different, but the other three are very similar. Ferrero Rocher & Brilliant Brunette make sense being a little similar, since both are selling a sort of indulgent, luxurious style. Temper-pedic in particular I might look at giving it a more lighter, airy tone to differentiate it from the others. You could also try to do a take of Brilliant Brunette that runs a little more high pitched and 'we're just girls having fun' rather than 'sultry babes on the prowl' if you're really trying to spread out the range.
That was such a blast to do with you!!
You do awesome.
>Your voice dropping pitch after plasma donation is certainly an odd phenomenon, but the more I think about it the more it makes total physiological sense. Higher pitches are produced by faster moving air, and after donating your blood glucose may have dropped leading to a slight reduction in available energy for your diaphragm and other air moving muscles. A decrease in plasma will also lead to a decrease in blood pressure, and correspondingly a decrease in the 'swollen-ness' (to use a technical term) of the throat spaces. This might open things up and allow for a slightly larger resonant chamber and perhaps even slightly less high tension vocal cords dropping the pitch of produced sound.
>A closet probably makes for a pretty darn good VO studio. The hanging clothes are probably very effective sound dampeners, leading to a similar effect as the foam wedges and the like in professional studios.
>Continuing to pursue auditions is good advice. Probability applied to the real world helps us understand why determination, grit, or 'never giving up' are such useful traits; the greater the number of events the greater the likelihood that outcomes - even those with low probability - will be seen. I first heard this applied to starting a business - take for instance starting a restaurant. If it's true (which it's not) that 90% of restaurants fail in the first year, then starting 10 restaurants means you have a 75% chance that one of those will succeed (use the geometric distribution).
>Your VO demo reel is very good. Since you're worried about differentiation I'd say Cymbalta is pretty different, but the other three are very similar. Ferrero Rocher & Brilliant Brunette make sense being a little similar, since both are selling a sort of indulgent, luxurious style. Temper-pedic in particular I might look at giving it a more lighter, airy tone to differentiate it from the others. You could also try to do a take of Brilliant Brunette that runs a little more high pitched and 'we're just girls having fun' rather than 'sultry babes on the prowl' if you're really trying to spread out the range.
Wow! Such insight! Thanks so much for all the thoughts! The physiology of it all is so interesting!!