2022.01.24 – S2024 – 0389 - How To Talk To Time
A sense of timing can be developed in the same way as an experienced driver can tell the speed of a car as it passes, or while they’re in it, and with experience you will be able to slightly adjust your reading rate ‘speedometer’ (or a ‘read-ometer’!) to say, shave a second or two off a script:
· Taking shorter breaths – or longer ones (that can be edited out) that will allow you take fewer breaths over the duration of the script
· Slightly increasing the intonation may give you the licence to speak slightly faster
· Contracting words and pauses – but be careful not to gabble.
Making the words fit a longer duration is not always as simple as slowing down:
· Pauses can be a bit longer and micro-pauses can perhaps be added after key words or phrases.
· Words may be drawn out a little.
But you can’t just read. Each. Word. Followed. By. A. Pause. You still have to have flow and maintain a meaning with what you’re reading.
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