[Erik B]

Hello Everybody. I’ve completed my latest homework assignment. Please feel free to provide feedback on performance and recording quality.

Thanks,
Erik

Toshiba
“There is nothing like dream to create the future…” the words of Victor Hugo. The nurturing force for a seed, called dream, is our desire to imagine a better tomorrow. At Toshiba, we’re helping to create it. Toshiba has been turning “dream” into a tangible future for over 100 years … sustaining it now with our commitment to manufacturing in the U.S. and with a wide diversity of products of the highest quality. All of which have helped make us one of the leading electrical and electronic manufacturers in the world. And a company that believes dreams can come true.

A Haunting Title
In this world, there is real evil. In the darkest shadows and in the most ordinary places. Thee are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Between the world we see and the things we fear. There are doors. When they are opened. Nightmares become reality.

Cary Grant
Cary Grant’s classy film persona and peerless timing are so ingrained in our collective psyche that we tend to confuse the man with the myth. So good was he at playing the icon known as Cary Grant that it was often said he always played the same part–himself. The truth is that he was an underrated actor who brought depth and dimension to his characters, and he never played himself. Of all the roles he created, Cary Grant was his greatest invention.

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[Erik B]

Hi Christopher,

I listenened to your reads, and will share with you my notes as I listened to each read.

4-H – Good read, good pacing, hit key words nicely, good differentiation

About Horror – Good job landing the first sentence, that is a tough one. Good differentiation, good pacing

Cosmos – Great tone, maybe differentiate a litte more in the last sentence.

Overall very good job.

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[Erik B]

Hi Steve,

I really like the tone and pacing of your read. Also the recording quality sounds very good. I’m still a novice, but one thing I was taught to look out for is unnecessary pauses in a read. One I spoted was in the second to last sentence between “pace and”. But overall good read.

[Erik B]

Hi Nailah, I listened to your reads, thought I’d share with you my notes as I listened.

Pizza Hut – good tempo, good differentiation, and good tone. Very good job.

Special K – Very good read, great tone, good differentiation. Perhaps enunciate a bit more clearly with the line, “putthing them in a box”

Spotify – good differentiation, good tone, good read.

Overall very good job.

[Erik B]

Hi Don, Here are my thoughts with your two reads:

Kawasaki – Great tone, hit words nicely. I would suggest slowing down the tempo just a bit. The read sounds a bit rushed.

Berringer – Great tone, hit the ending very well. Maybe differentiate a bit more in the first ten seconds of the read. Also similar to Kawasaki, the tempo sounds a bit rushed.

Overall solid job.

[Erik B]

Hi artyom123,

The pacing and tone of the read are good. Also you hit key words nicely. Watch out for glottals in the read, i.e. between cart and or in the third sentence. Overall solid job.

[Erik B]

Hi Mtripo9,

I enjoyed this read. The sounds quality is solid. I noticed some things you could tweak. I would suggest pausing in the first sentence after ago. Also maybe differentiate a bit more in the fourth sentence. I enjoyed the tone and character. Also the pacing was spot on. Overall good job.

[Erik B]

Hi everybody. I’m posting my homework assignment for my next Narration class. Please feel free to provide feedback on performance and recording quality.

Thank you,
Erik

Recycling

I don’t know about you, but I like our planet a lot! And one of the easiest ways we can help protect the Earth is by recycling. That’s where instead of throwing things like plastic in the trash, you put them in a special bin so they go to a kind of factory to be reused. You’ve probably recycled things like plastic bottles before. There might even be a recycling bin in the room you’re in right now! Recycling is important because it helps keep the Earth clean, especially from trash made of plastic.

Yellowstone
In the northern part of the park, large stretches of grass and sagebrush spread across the mountains and valleys. Similar to the prairies, this habitat provides an excellent home to the badger and her new family. They see light, for perhaps the first time. A strange new world for them. And they stay close to their mother at first. But growing bolder, they begin to explore on their own.

Sean Connery
He was born Thomas Sean Connery in Fountainbridge, Scotland, on August 25, 1930, the son of Joe, a truck driver, and Euphamia, a 20-year-old housewife. The neighborhood was known as “the street of a thousand smells” for the stench of the local rubber mill and several breweries that always filled the air. Connery’s home was a two-room flat in “tenement land”, where the infant slept in a bureau drawer because his parents couldn’t afford a crib.

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[Erik B]

Hi Chance. The tone and tempo of your read are good. Also you enunciate clearly throughout. Watch out for breathes present on the recording, I noticed one at the beginning of the third sentence. Also the last sentence sounds like a question instead of a statement. Overall good job.

[Erik B]

HI Sue. The tone and tempo of your read were good. You also hit key words nicely, i.e. real in the first sentence. Watch out for pauses, I noticed one between “cat and” in the fourth sentence. Overall good job.

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