0613 – How ‘Control Room Characters’ May Shape Your Voice

2022.09.05 - 0613 – How ‘Control Room Characters’ May Shape Your VoiceThe Control Room (AKA: ‘gallery’, ‘production area’, ‘ops’ [operations area], or simply ‘studio’!)While you are alone in the studio, other people will be in the area just outside, where the recording actually happens.There could be several people in here, even eight or ten people in an agency studio situation. Maybe a creative director, a creative writer or two, clients, an account manager, a rep from the marketing department, an engineer or two, maybe the scriptwriter. Someone else because “it sounds like fun”, a trainee perhaps. There should be someone who is in control of the recording and co-ordinates feedback to give you, so you are not party to lots of different ‘direction suggestions’ from everyone. Imagine the mayhem if they all pitch in with their thoughts: too many people telling you too many things.Keep a note of who you are introduced to, their name and position. Then you can talk to them by name, and is more friendly and builds a relationship (“So, Brian, is that the kind of tone you had in mind…?”) Lots of suggestions from several stakeholders can be quite a challenge to cope with. To be clear, it shouldn’t be a problem with the requests changing over the course of the recording (“Can you try it a bit slower now, please?” or “I know we said we wanted that line ‘thrown away’ but can we just try it, with more of a punch?”) as they explore options and you become a sounding board for their ideas. But what you don’t want is constant disagreement between various people… of what they want right now. Set some polite parameters at the start “So I think we’ve put aside an hour for this haven’t we? Do you think that’s OK…?” . I wouldn’t refuse to utter a single word when the 60 minutes is up, but be careful your goodwill (“just one more take…”) or voice are not taken advantage of. If there’s going to be another 20- or 30-minutes work and you can fit it in, that’s probably fine (on the same or higher rate), but you should be able to take a 15minute voice-break first. Think that might come over as a bit ‘precious’? Then “So I think we’ve put aside an hour for this haven’t we? Do you think that’s OK…? I can stay for a bit longer if you need me to, but with all this water, I’ll probably need a bathroom break at about X o’clock…”  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Year THREE of short daily episodes to improve the quality of your speaking voice.Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VOICE OVER VOICE.Look out for more details of the book during 2024.Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_StewartAudio recording script and show notes (c) 2021, 2022, 2023 Peter StewartPeter has been around voice and audio all his working life and has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1, the classical music station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s Panorama. He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (see contacts clink above) and presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional radio) with various formats. He has read tens of thousands of news bulletins and hosted 3,000+ podcast episodes.The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change their speaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or be pressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well aware that how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfully communicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially being acted upon) by your target audience?This podcast is London-based and examples are spoken in the RP (Received Pronunciation) / standard-English / BBC English pronunciation, although invariably applicable to other languages, accents and dialects.The 'Peter Stewart' show is perhaps of great interest to those in broadcast voice overs, the broadcast voice, how to start a voice podcast, broadcasting voice training, your speaking voice, breathing technique, and conversational speaking. You may also find it useful if you are searching for information on voice coaching, voice training, voice overs, podcasting, broadcasting, presenting, being a voice over actor and newsreading, audio branding, public speaking, the recorded voice, vocal tips, performance, vocal health education, vocal technique and voice over training.Music credits: all Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.