My voiceover journey started 282 days ago
The 2nd full week after my return from my research trip to Madagascar but also the first week of my new 90-day-challenge called #90daysoflaserfocus Because I struggle to find focus (I have so many interests) I figured why not challenge myself to focus on voiceover client work (and what's related to it) for 90 days and let the public eye do its magic and keep me accountable. I only started on Monday, so day no. 5 has only passed but I can already feel that I'm pushing myself slightly harder if there was no public documentation. That’s a good thing!
Though my standard routine is and will be valid, in these last days I didn’t really „respect“ it, mainly because my new #90daysoflaserfocus kept me working a bit more - because more documentation = more work, and my inner artist was fighting against the routine-maintainer Mr. Rigid.
Here’s what I, Frank, Hank and Jimmy want to say about this week.
1/4 Worker: Frank
Completed
- Produced + published daily on IGTV
- Worked on my day job daily (min. 2h)
- Produced + published daily #90daysoflaserfocus
- Published another piece that’s important too me: The Trifecta of Productivity
- Visuals for stolenvoice marketing
- Wrote 1,700 % more drafts for stolenvoiceIGTV episodes -that’s insane and super productive!
- Published this stolenvoice tv ep. 19
Worked on (but incomplete)
- A new voiceover service with 24-turnaround: https://quickvoiceover.delivery (QVoD) - not yet online, I worked on the copy and contact form this week
- script 4 (demo reel)
- though there was a lot of internal discussion how much script 4 should be part of the commercial demo reel
- 1 light AVV for German client
- 1 AVR for English-speaking potential client
- Worked on soycubano book (day 19 to 22, I wanted to reach 23 this week)
Didn’t work on
- stolenvoice newsletter
- stolenvoice lead magnet for newsletter
- salesmanship.io landing page
Struggling
Though I enjoy being in the free-thinking mindset of an artist I don’t want to enter to deep into the intensity because sticking to my ideal routine and schedule promises long-terms success and achievement. So, I’ll handle my artist in the next week better, I hope.
Voiceover weaknesses
New discoveries this week:
nope
Weaknesses I discovered before:
- My tendency to apply particular voiceover delivery to script although they don’t fit (so my weakness here is to not see when a particular style for a script is appropriate - I want to learn to see while still having room the experiment different deliveries in experimental mode)
- Ending all the phrases on the same delivery of notes
- My struggle: when conversational I’m losing energy and sounding too flat/boring
- Embracing my foreign accent but not sounding stilted - a challenging contradiction for me
- Sometimes not being able to reproduce particular way or style of delivery. So, I want to be able to consistently reproduce a style of delivery
- impatience while performing - tendency is to be too fast - „let’s get it over with quickly“
- I tend to get stiff when things take too much - so I disrelax
- Speaking well-pronounced while speaking natural
- I don’t know how to speak anymore - it seems I never knew how to speak, read out loud in the first place
- „You’re not embracing your own accent" - Penny Rawlins
- I think you have a bright and friendly natural quality to your voice, you just don’t know quite how to use it just yet:) - Tanya Rich
- Sounding conversational while not sounding like I’m reading and still sounding energetic
- Forgetting to imagine who I’m to and what scenario I’m in
- „Bouncing voice“ (German: knallen) when starting a new sentence, I want to smoothen the start of a sentence more
- My non-native accent when speaking English (it doesn’t sound super German but it’s clear that I’m neither a native US nor a native British speaker
- Sounding less robotic when speaking
- Clear diction of words (no mumbling)
- Speak clear while speaking fast
- Sound like a native US-American speaker
- Sound like a native British speaker
- Sound like an English speaker with a German accent
Weakness I worked on this week:
nope
Weakness I fixed this week:
nope
Done next time
- find a solution for script 4 and the continuation of the production of the commercial demo reel, at the moment there’s a lot of uncertainty what should be part of the reel
- 1 light AVV for German client
- 1 AVR for English-speaking potential client
- daily stolenvoiceIGTV show
- daily day job work
- daily #90daysoflaserfocus publications
- soycubano work on day 22 to 26
- publish stolenvoice tv ep. 20
- finished quickvoiceover.delivery landing page
- stolenvoice newsletter
- stolenvoice draft of lead magnet for newsletter
- salesmanship.io draft of copy for landing page
- work a bit on my bro’s + wife’s wedding material
2/4 CEO: Hank
How did business go?
Not much to say about the biz. It was a busy week and especially the marketing actions on Instagram have been intense and will become even more intense.
Review of worker Frank’s performance (according to the productivity planner):
- 11 tasks this week
- 2 completed
- 5 worked on (but incomplete)
- 3 not worked on at all
Productivity scores:
- Mo: 10/10
- Di: 6/10
- Mi: 10/10
- Do: 10/10
- Fr: 6/10 (a the moment, 23:34, but the work day hasn’t finished yet, and the day job was 4 hours today instead of the usual 2h)
Frank did well. He worked a lot and diligent. There’s nothing I can blame him for, only his lack of discipline with regard to going to bed early/earlier. But that’s something he’ll figure out, I believe in him.
3/4 Head of Sales: Jimmy
How did sales go?
no sales
4/4 Last words of the observer: Alex (me)
What did you (as the gray eminence) get out of this week? What was remarkable?
Me = Documentation monster :P
Links I mentioned in the video
- stolenvoice tv episode 19 blog post - it’s what you’re reading :P
- #90daysoflaserfocus - my public accountability challenge of 90 days focussing on voiceover client work only
- Quick Voiceover Delivery - 24-hour turnaround voiceover - only next week
- my Instagram channel
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