0629 – Getting Feedback On Your Voice

2022.09.21 - 0629 – Getting Feedback On Your Voice VOICE BOXGiving and Receiving Notes Directors:·        Only have you give the feedback not everyone in the control room. ·        Realise that everyone has different expectations about feedback or Notes:o  For some it’s “tell me what to do”o  “Share with me what you think I should do”o  “This is what I’m doing, is it OK or not?”·        Don’t give too much information back to them in the first couple of reads. ·        Then, don’t give feedback all in one go, but ‘layer up’ your notes. ·        And be specific·        At first, gently remind the reader who they are talking to and their role·        Subsequent suggestions might be around the speed and pauses·        Then, say, tweaks to tone and intonation·        And make the notes clear and specific so they are easily understood, so your actor knows why they are doing the read again·        Keep everything upbeat and low-pressure. There’s no point keep referring to the time left on the studio session or getting exasperated that the actor “doesn’t get it”. ·        If it’s still not going right, then ‘re-wire’ your approach. Consider de-pressuring the situation:o  Move on and coming back to that part latero  Take a break – for a ‘tea and wee’ and a chat about something completely unrelated to the script o  Make a joke out of the situation o  Re-calibrate the read - read the part in an over-the-top giant style, then as a mouse, before returning to the actual read. Play around to break inhibitions and maybe find gold by happy accident.·        Be careful about your use of language, especially around someone’s accent or dialect which are particularly personal.  Voice-artists:·        Politely check early on who of several people in the control room, is directing you: “so just so’s I know who I’m taking direction from, is that you, Maggie?”. This saves studio duration, contradictory information and general confusion.·        Actively listen to what the director says. That is, don’t just ‘hear’ their suggestions but concentrate and understand them·        Consider repeating what they have said back to them, so you both know that you have understood (or not): “so a little bit slower on that tag line, and to slightly lift the brand name, yeah? No problem…”·        Write down the direction, marking your script up as required to help you remember and act on what you have been asked to do 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.