Class Session 1
ERA S. for Role
Full details of homework is on Closing Credits
Holy cow love the way you managed to make the script just flow naturally; as is obvious in mine, i really struggled with the flow and sound hella choppy
Thank you so much!
The projection here is CHEF’S KISS!
Thank you!
"No cash. No problem!" stuck out to me."Come on in" was warmReally good delivery on "Pick up your free gift"Good tone throughout. Definitely reminded me of commercials I've heard.
WELL! CCC destroyed the formatting of this comment, but you should get the gist.
WELL! CCC does not like line break it seems. I hope that's still legible.
Thank you!
Excellent read! Great use of projection, articulation and enunciation!
0:34 Read “entrée” as “entry”
0:38 Added word “and”
0:41 Read “until” instead of “till”
1:06 Started losing stamina/projection around this point. Got better as you started the next paragraph.
1:09 Good use of change-ups for the repeated words.
1:20 Added word “to”
1:42 Read “to say thank you” instead of “of saying thank you.”
Good job with pausing when you made a mistake and going back to a good point of pause. This makes editing easier later.
Generally a good distance between the microphone and your mouth as you are recording, as a rule of thumb, is the space between your pinky and thumb when they are extended apart from each other. 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. You may need to adjust your gain for louder and quieter parts; if so, it helps to know where to turn the gain to in order to achieve optimal levels during recording. Staying well hydrated will help to reduce mouth clicks during recording. A good rule of thumb is to hydrate well a couple of hours before recording and drink water in between as you’re recording to stay hydrated.
As you progress with voice acting, investing in the RX series mouth declick plug-in is a very useful and worthwhile tool to have at your disposal to help keep the recording as clean as possible.
Be sure to listen back and quality check your work on actual auditions and gigs after you’ve recorded to make sure you’ve accurately read the script. Some scripts have more leeway than others in how accurate the read needs to be. For example, commercial or medical scripts may have been run through the legal department and they may not want any changes from what was written. Finding the errors as you practice will help you improve your cold reading skills as well.
Overall, fantastic read!