How a voice actor provides value in a session
During a session, the voice actor is there to perform. This much is true.
However, there are opportunities where the voice actor's experience can be instrumental in making improvements to the final result of a live session.
In my own personal experience I've learned to identify problematic scrips and issues in direction, where I can ask for clarification or complete a half-baked idea.
Maybe there's a tongue twister in the script or a lack of contrast from one line to the next or maybe being mechanically directed to say something in a particular way without necessarily considering how we want the audience to feel.
A recent session reminded me of some of that, as the client was very much in the exploratory phase of determining what they really wanted out of a project. This is important to recognise and, in the exploratory phase there is [almost] no such thing as a bad idea.
Live sessions are great because in some ways they are malleable. If the director has a very clear idea of what to do, it becomes an iterative process. The director directs, the actor acts.
Conversely, for other projects they can turn into a sort of playground of ideas.
No live session is the same, and that's wonderful.
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