A line of dialogue has two lives: the one a reader imagines and the one a performer speaks. Let’s Hear Josh follows the work between them. Character, narrative and spoken delivery meet here, with room for the practical business of getting a voice into a recording.
Start on the page if you are shaping a story. The Script & Story articles examine motivation, point of view, openings, dialogue and narrative structure. An explanation of character can help a writer think about a scene; the same question can help a performer decide what the words are doing.
From written words to recorded sound
Performance Craft covers acting practice, audition pieces, stage language, speeches and delivery. Voice Acting turns to practice scripts and narration. Recording Basics deals with microphones, simple setups and the path from a spoken performance to an audio file. These subjects connect, but they do not have to be read in order: a recording question may be your starting point, while someone else arrives with a difficult monologue.
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