Their voice is their core instrument and all they have to depend on. However, as I stated before, voice actors only have their voice. As someone who likes stage acting, I am used to depending on things other than just my voice, like my body movements, body emotions, and facial expressions-all those things can save me in the moment of acting on stage or screen.
In my opinion, although I do prefer screen and stage acting, voice acting seems to be more challenging. If you’re doing live acting, you need to make sure you aren’t messing up at all, basically being perfect. In stage acting, since you don’t always have something you’re reading off of, you’re more likely to need to spend more time memorizing.
Overall, voice acting and stage acting both have their challenges. Therefore, your voice needs to have a range of talent and ability that a stage actor may not need to have. In voice acting, especially now during COVID, a lot of voice actors have to self-direct, and that makes the process harder. There are a lot of times where the character has to sound goofy, kid friendly, and more, and you aren’t directed all the time like in live acting. But in voice acting, your voice needs to be able to change-it needs to be able to create different tones, different pitches, etc., especially for animated cartoon voice acting. Obviously you need your voice for saying your lines and projecting. Within stage acting, you don’t commonly need to develop your voice as intensely. There could also be times where there’s more film time that a voice actor needs to do than a stage actor: Sometimes when voice acting or speaking audio books, I’ve learned that you can spend up to twenty hours doing so. It has to be precise and if you change anything, it’ll be noticed, which can also be difficult if you’re tired. In stage acting, some believe that the script is just an outline for the actor, but I’ve personally learned that in voice acting, there are many people who go through the voice script to make sure you said every single word correctly. Although you’re most likely going to be reading off the paper, your time for preparation and rehearsal may not be the same, ultimately making it more challenging for the actor. However, in voice acting you may not get it until just a few minutes before. In stage or film acting, you get your script way before showtime. In voice acting, you don’t always get as much preparation as other performers. You need to sell a whole character with only your voice. However, it’s your only instrument, so you need it to be perfect. Some people think this makes it easier since you don’t need to use your whole body. With voice acting, your voice is your instrument. Some may argue that stage acting is harder, but voice acting seems to be the more difficult kind. You need to express emotion, beauty, clarity-you need to have all the qualities of a stage actor-but only with your voice. Voice acting is a form of acting that requires you to do so much with so little. However, voice acting isn’t always what comes up to mind. You may hear “actors” and first think of stages and lights and movies. “All the world’s a stage,” but not all acting is the same. Marcelle wrote about his findings (and created this graphic) in a culmination of his time here at JMM. While working from the New York office, Marcelle got to learn about the differences between one of his passions: stage acting and voice acting. For the past week, JMM has had the pleasure to host high school student Mark Marcelle for a Spring Break Internship Program.
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