0625 – Line-Reading For Voice Training

2022.09.17 - 0625 – Line-Reading For Voice TrainingVOICE BOXLine readingA director may read your script to you, in the style they want you to emulate: a line-reading. This is slightly different from a line-by-line read mentioned above, as it’s when a director speaks a phrase or sentence exactly how they want it (regarding intonation, accent, pace and so on) and they record you repeating it back them exactly. Professional voice-over artists (or VT- voice talent) should rarely need this direction, certainly not for an entire script, but very often ‘celebrities’ who’ve been booked to lend their name and voice to a project, often do.[1]Don’t take it personally as an affront to your skills. It may be that they are not explaining very well the style or tone that they want – they may not have the terminology or you may not understand the nuance that they need - and it’s easier to show you ‘with their voice’. So why may it be that you don’t understand what they want? Well, because we are all different. The subtlety of a word they are using, may be different from your understanding of that word, perhaps because of each of your ages, backgrounds, cultures and so on. But a good director should have more in their exclamational arsenal before they resort to a lazy line-reading: they can use images to explain the sound and feel that they want “OK, imagine you’re alone in your house and you hear a weird noise outside…”), synonyms (“let’s try a read with a voice that sounds easy, simple, effortless, straightforward “), similes (“I want you to sound as cool as a cucumber…”, “like you are oozing sweet and sticky honey…” ), adjectives (“imagine biting into a crisp, sweet, juicy, red apple…”), adverbs (“it’d be great if you can attack that line a little more greedily…”)But if a line reading is suggested, just go with it: you need to be malleable and affable. Oh and directors: if you’re doing this, tread carefully around a voice-actor’s ego, and apologise for using this last-ditch technique!And it certainly is a last resort. The actor is a professional, not a parrot. And a professional voice-reader, not a robot. That’s because first, someone telling you the actor how to read a line (just to copy them), doesn’t help you connect with the character and the reason or the thinking behind the line. It can make you sound false, as it affects the fluency, the storytelling and the conversationality. [1] Sometimes it may be that the reader may ask for a line read, if for example, they have trouble following perhaps not very clear help from the director. 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.