Nicely done!

You will want to turn down your gain and/or add a bit more distance between you and the microphone input to keep from clipping and distortion in the audio. Suggest lowering the gain and adjusting your position so that your peaks for yelling/loud projection land between -9 dB and -3 dB. Try adjusting your microphone so that you speak just passed the mic at a slight offset to limit plosives. To further improve your read, I would add a pop filter if you don’t already have one to reduce the sound of plosives. Generally a good distance as a rule of thumb is the space between your pinky and thumb when they are extended apart from each other. If the loudness is caused by normalization, please bear in mind that it’s always good to leave headroom on your wave peaks. Shoot for -3dB of headroom. 

0:46 Missed word “though”

1:06 On an audition or gig, if you hit the microphone or its stand while recording and you get that bumped microphone noise, go back and re-record that line. It’s very difficult to edit out after the fact.

For the purpose of this homework to work on projection, I feel like you started out really well, but then lost energy as the read continued. Continue working on the SOVT exercises and increasing your stamina so that you will be able to keep the same energy and projection throughout the whole read.

I didn’t really hear anything too notable where you may have stumbled, but it’s good to bear in mind, when you misread or have a little stumble (happens to everyone and it’s okay!), it’s highly encouraged to start again at the beginning of the sentence or paragraph or a point that would make it easy to remove and replace the mistake during editing. If you just keep going and don’t return to a solid point that makes it easy to edit out the mistake, you may need to come back later and re-record as a pick-up, and it becomes challenging to make it sound the same as the original recording. So, a good rule of thumb is to record so that it’s easy to edit later. When the mistakes are then edited out, it will sound like you read everything perfectly.

Overall, the words were well articulated and enunciated and clearly spoken. To take this read to the next level, find a way to connect with the script and lift the words off the page and bring them to life. Add emotion and opinion into the script.Think of something that you are genuinely excited about and bring that enthusiasm to your read. Keep up the great work!