2022.05.20 – 0505 – Rehearsing Conversationality
Rehearsing reading out loud makes you a better communicator; it’s a skill that must be learnt and practiced so it sounds as though you are speaking off the top of your head.
Another killer of the conversational read is being in the ‘performance zone’. If you feel as though you are ‘acting the part’ of a voiceover artist or newsreader, that should be a sign to rethink your ‘attitude’. Clues might be:
· Speaking louder than normal, now of course you want to have energy behind what you’re reading, but lots of times, just a bit of smile and moving your body a little bit can add to that energy without projecting too much.
· Over pausing can ruin a conversational read
· Too much drama, annunciation or inflection. A conversational read should not be too ‘in your face’. You don’t want too many peaks and valleys as that’s when you lose that believability and vulnerability
Being over stiff and stuffy. It’s okay to move your body. It really, really helps as long as your microphone doesn’t pick those sounds up
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