Six Fundamental Voice Over Skills
📌 Voice over talent must master six fundamental skills before becoming professional: articulation, intonation, power, enthusiasm/emphasis, smiling voice, and emotion.
🗣️ Articulation means speaking clearly without mumbling, ensuring every word is distinct and easily understood by the listener.
🚫 Monotonous delivery is forbidden; intonation must be varied with rising, falling, and flat tones to engage the audience.

Core Voice Techniques
💪 Power in the voice is necessary to project energy and dynamism, differentiating a professional VO from casual speaking; this is *not* yelling.
✂️ Enthusiasm/Emphasis (Inflection) requires proper word segmentation (jeda/pauses) based on script comprehension to avoid changing the intended meaning, and applying *emphasis* to key words to add vitality.
😊 A Smiling Voice conveys friendliness, warmth, and cheerfulness, crucial for scripts like commercials for beauty products or energy drinks, depending on the script's need.

Emotional Delivery
🎭 Emotion (Rasa) is paramount, requiring the talent to understand the "theater of mind" or the scene's context (sad, energetic, casual, elegant) to deliver the script authentically.
📚 Before recording, talents must thoroughly read the script to determine correct pausing, emphasis, and the overall emotional tone required.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Mastering articulation is the baseline requirement; if one mumbles while speaking casually, it must be trained for professional VO work.
➡️ Intonation must be dynamic (up, down, flat) and never monotonous to maintain listener engagement.
➡️ Voice power must be added without resorting to yelling; it should sound energetic and dynamic.
➡️ Always read the script first to correctly identify word segmentation (pauses) and determine where to apply emphasis (inflection) to convey the right meaning.

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