Nice work!

Your audio seems a little quiet. Try adjusting your gain so that peaks for yelling/loud projection land between -9 dB and -3 dB. Generally a good distance from your microphone for recording as a rule of thumb is the space between your pinky and thumb when they are extended apart from each other. For normal talking, try to have the waveform peaks between -12 and -6 dB. 

0:04 “loved molding models” felt a little run together and rushed. Be sure to go slow enough to clearly enunciate and articulate each word.

0:27, 0:51 Read “ideals” instead of “ideas”

0:32 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. 

0:52 “Flooding” felt like it was rushed through and not fully pronounced

1:02 Missed word “of”

1:02 Read “Dralco” instead of “Draco”

1:14 Read “Paddington” instead of “Padderton”

For actual gigs and auditions, be sure to quality check your work after recording to ensure you correctly performed the script. It is very important to many casting directors to have voice actors accurately read the written copy (script). 

Make sure you don’t lose the ends of words when practicing articulation and enunciation. In natural speaking, the ends tend to fall off or not be hit hard, but exercising and strengthening the quality to fully pronounce words is an excellent tool to have in your tool box. Really focus on hitting all of the letters in the words and clearly pronouncing all of them. When practicing articulation and enunciation it’s good to over-do it.

If you repeat the “P”, “T” and “D” letters sounds this exercise focused on, note the placement of your tongue and mouth as you make them and use this knowledge as you practice articulation in your read. The tongue twisters will also help so keep having fun playing around with those as well. Vocal warmups help loosen the tongue and vocal cords and will make it easier to pronounce the words. Other exercises, such as the Bug Blood Bonanza script is another good one for practicing “B”, “G” and “K” sounds.

For the purpose of this homework to work on projection, articulation and enunciation, (particularly for P, T, and D sounds for this exercise script), I could tell you were working on all of these qualities and thought you did well with it. Really hit the letters of P, T, and D in this exercise no matter where they fall within the word. For example, the word “little” be sure to hit those “t’s” harder when you are practicing articulation exercises. Try over-enunciating and over-articulating like Burger showed in class with the cork trick. Being able to adjust the level of articulation in your read from very precise to normal everyday talking is an excellent tool to have in your voice acting toolbox. Keep practicing this skill as it will be an invaluable asset in voice acting as you continue along your journey.

Keep up the good work!