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Alayne…recorded from your phone? WOW…GOOD READS! Your voice feels so natural for e-learning or education. My one comment would be to slow just a bit. Since it’s e-learning, 2 important things are happening. 1) There are more than likely visuals (videos or slides) that are going along with this and…2) there are people trying to digest the information you are delivering. You can slow your VO read slightly per slide because the slides or video will be on the screen for 3-5 seconds and that should allow the learner time to digest the information. Make sense?
Your read was very authentic, but in trying to be authentic we sometimes have the tendency to talk faster. I bet if you paced yourself a tad bit slower you could still achieve a great authentic read. Good luck!
Hello everyone! Looking for feedback on these 2 commercial (conversational) VOs as VO training homework. Thanks in advance.
Uploading some new files for my VO homework as I work on my new demo. Appreciate any listening and any feedback. Thanks
Hey Jeff! Great voice! For the TN Valley: There were a lot of mouth clicks throughout. I’d suggest to try a de-clicker or edit those out. It was a very fast read. It felt like this would be a documentary, so imagine the images that would appear with the copy you are reading and how long they may appear on the screen during your VO (most likely a couple of seconds or so) hopefully this will help you pace a little slower so your audience can more easily absorb the message. For the Church Attack: It lacked emotion behind the subject matter. The church attack is a horrible thing and the images that would be show with it are also…try putting your hand over your heart or something like that when you read to connect with the script (you don’t have to pour out tears but you would want to connect with the gravity of the situation). Doing that hopefully will help you with slowing your pace also. Hope this helps. Keep going…your voice is great for narration.
Great points, Shumel! Excellent points the more I read them, actually. That is how the script should read. That helps me A LOT!
Thanks for the comments on the 2nd read. Third Read…I hear it now….whorle. I found this one more difficult to try to vary for some reason. I got close I felt….I’ll have to experiment with it some more.Appreciate your ears!
Thanks for the immediate feedback. It was intentional to do 3 completely different scripts. Script 1…your normal Mercedes Car commercial. Nothing special there :). The other 2 were a stretch. I think I was too deliberate with the Mercedes commercial. I was trying to keep in mind that the Mercedes read was probably more for a TV commercial and not radio, so I backed off and read it knowing the images of the commercial are the star of the commercial and my voice supports the images. If I had thought of it as a radio ad I probably would have been a little more animated to try to paint an imaginary picture. Still I think I was too pulled back from the read. Thanks!
Hello forum,
I’m back again and decided to really stretch and challenge myself with 2 of these 3 scripts…you’ll be able to tell :). Gotta test the limits, you know. Looking forward to hearing some comments. Need to rest the voice a bit. Thanks!
