ROWELL GORMON
Presenting:
VOICE ACTING – Character Voices: For People Who Don’t Think They Can Do Character Voices
“Character” used to mean those wild and wacky voices you heard on classic animated cartoons. But that’s not necessarily what it means any more. With audiobooks, eLearning, and more natural styles of acting for audio and video, a “character” voice can now mean literally any voice you do which isn’t your regular voice.
In this session, you’ll learn:
* How to pick up on characters that surround you every day
* How to create a complete character from a one-note performance
* How verbal and visual cues help decide your character’s sound
* How one of my animated commercial characters was crafted from script to storyboard to final spot
* Simple tricks to stretch each new-found voice into multiple characters
* How to adapt my methods and discoveries to your own vocal range for fun and profit!
Career training level: all
About Rowell Gormon:
People who know Rowell (conveniently rhymes with “role”) Gormon know he’s a master of character styles, both straight and comic. Over the past 30 years as a voice actor, he has developed an additional persona which producers find equally appealing: “Mr. Warm & Friendly Voice.”
Rowell’s voice can be heard in projects for banks, medical training, neighborly dialogues, and heartfelt first-person storytelling. Yet, he’s always ready to voice a germ, a Freudian shrink, a nerdy robot, or a set of toes. Happy clients include Disney World, GlaxoSmithKline, Carquest, New Balance, Citibank, Meijer, The Hartford, PGA Tour, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and NASA.
Rowell has recently begun recording audiobooks, and has done free reading for the blind via the Internet. He is also an on-camera actor and a regular in corporate training projects. His experience as a local TV kiddie show puppeteer helped him snag a job as a “hired hand” in two motion pictures with Jim Henson’s Muppets (though, alas, they provided their own voices).
He’s a full time voice actor and audio production pro, working from his own ISDN-equipped Imaginator Studio.
RG is now into his 6th childhood. “Most poor suckers,” he notes, “are lucky to have even one.”
