Voice Arts Award<\/a>\u00a0Vanguard Award for Education sponsored by Backstage Magazine, Fraley chats about his career thus far, and what it means to be able to teach his craft to others.<\/p>\nOn making his teaching available to everyone.
<\/strong>Though Fraley teaches weekend events around the country, he says wanted to make his lessons more easily available for aspiring voice actors. \u201cI wanted to create home course studies and I have 10 of them now available\u2014five-week course studies. [Students] record, they send the recording to me, I comment and get back to them, and sometimes they re-record,\u201d Fraley says, noting he\u2019s been doing this since January.<\/p>\n\u201cMy events on the weekends are rather expensive, and I don\u2019t wanna go to Heaven saying, \u2018I only taught people who had money.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
On his encouraging teaching method.
<\/strong>Fraley says that even though he\u2019s known as a fairly technical teacher, teaching hard skills, tricks and techniques, the underpinnings of what he shows his students is \u201chow to work without fear.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cFear is the greatest enemy of all performers. If you get fearful everything locks down,\u201d explains Fraley. \u201cSo it really is the combination overcoming fear and hard technique [that] leads one to confidence, and that\u2019s the juice.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I could teach confidence, I would not teach anything else my entire career. It just turns out that the gateway to confidence is knowledge and also the lack or lessening of fear.\u201d<\/p>\n
On what he wish he knew before he started voice acting.
<\/strong>\u201cAll performance in almost all mediums will use the term \u2018raise the stakes,\u2019 meaning make things more important. And really, what that means is passion,\u201d explains Fraley. \u201cAudiences are drawn to characters that are passionate and one of the things that I linked with passion was exaggeration. And that gave me a career in cartoons, but later on I realized that passionate people don\u2019t necessarily have to be exaggerated, and you can have a realistic performance that is passionate but not exaggerated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\nOn receiving the Vanguard Award for Education.
<\/strong><\/span>For Fraley, the Voice Arts Award is a particularly meaningful one for him to receive. \u201cThis is about recognizing someone in a discipline that is on the forefront of their particular genre or medium, and what that means is that people follow them.<\/p>\n\u201c[\u2018Vanguard\u2019] is a military term that comes from those at the forefront of the battle. And it\u2019s a place of great victory but great vulnerability, and to be recognized for leading and for education\u2014certainly in my area\u2014is really, really touching and special for me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
On his advice for aspiring artists.
<\/strong>\u201cAll businesses are about three things: skills, doors, and champions. The doors open and they will open on occasion for any performer. A champion will help open those doors for you, or they\u2019re on the other side of the door and they open it and let you in. But a champion is not interested in anyone without formidable skills,\u201d Fraley explains. \u201cSo a voiceover performer can only really affectively advance their interests by getting skillful, and then they get recognized hopefully by a champion who will help them open doors.\u201d<\/p>\nInspired by this story? Check out our voiceover audition listings<\/a>! <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a voice actor and mentor, Pat Fraley is at the top, but it wasn\u2019t until after he studied theater in college, got his masters in fine arts from Cornell, and performed Shakespeare in Australia, that the Vanguard Award for Education winner discovered that his true talents rest in voiceover. \u201cI realized that I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,5,6],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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