2022.10.11 – 0649 – Practicing Talking To Time
Practice Talking To Time
As we saw in episode 427
Take some copy which has a required duration indicated on it, and read it aloud like you might in a demo, and with a stopwatch to hand.
How many words did you read in 30 seconds? Or how many seconds were you over?
Keep practicing until you can sensibly get the copy in the seconds required, several times in a row. Then take another script and repeat the exercise before return to the first script and seeing if the rate and the rhythm are still there.
Then go back to the second script. Then take a third one, of a different style and duration and word-count, and try it all again.
A further exercise would be to take your 30 second script and elongate it so it when you read it, it lasts 40 seconds, or shorten it to 25: all of these are skills that will come in useful in the recording studio. You are often presented with a script that is just too ‘word-rich’ and yes, every single one is vital. It is up to you to ‘fit the words into the seconds’ in a clear and interesting way.
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