Your audio is a little quiet. Generally a good distance from your microphone as a rule of thumb is the space between your pinky and thumb when they are extended apart from each other. For louder talking/yelling you may need to increase the distance a little and/or lower the gain. Having the microphone input pointed at your mouth but offset to one side maybe 20-30 degrees can help reduce plosives. Try to have waveform peaks for yelling/loud projection land between -9 dB and -3 dB. For normal talking, try to have the waveform peaks between -12 and -6 dB. Shoot for -3dB of headroom. 

0:20 In commercial scripts when you get to the brand name, give it some extra love. This is the client who’s paying you! They want their name to be remembered positively in commercials. :)

0:21 Read “stand” instead of “stands” - be aware of changing words and dropping or adding “s”

1:14 When you have repeated words or phrases, try to change up the way you say them and make them different, this adds life and character to your read.

1:47 Mispronounced “Marketplace”

Don’t forget to include the tongue twisters in your homework going forward! :)

I could tell you were working on projection, articulation and enunciation. Nice work! 

The read was a little choppy in places, but as you continue to practice with the articulation and enunciation, it will become easier and smoother. 

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.That cork trick Burger showed in class can be very helpful with practicing this skill.

Eventually, when you are ready to take the next step on your voice acting journey, you will want to look into treating your recording space with acoustic foam (we recommend 4” thick) and/or acoustic blankets so that the reverb/reflections and background noise are reduced in your recording. For this class, though, it’s all good since we’re just focusing on the basics of voice acting. Simply adjusting your proximity to your microphone alone will make a big difference. :)

Keep up the great work!