Nice energy and enthusiasm with your read!

0:11 In commercials, when you get to the brand name, slow it down a tad and give it some extra love. This is the client who’s paying you! They want their name to be remembered positively in commercials.

0:13 Read “G” instead of “G’s”. The words that have “s” at the end and “s” at the beginning of the next one can be challenging. A good way to ensure you pronounce the entire word is to slow down a little so you can comfortably leave enough space to say both words naturally.

0:17 Nice laugh and change-up with “Anyways”.

0:24 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 good pause 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. 

0:29 The word “listen” felt a little rushed/slurred. Be sure to fully and clearly pronounce all of the words in the script.

0:41 Good effort on enunciating and articulating, but Graham is still pronounced like “Gram” and not “Gray-ham”. :)

0:46 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.

1:00 The word “fashionably” felt a little rushed/slurred.

1:14 The words “as we always” felt a little rushed/slurred and underpronounced.

I felt like you did well overall with your projection. 

For the purpose of this homework to work on articulation and projection, the read was generally very good overall, but there were places where you could have really worked to hit all of the letters in the words and made sure they were clearly spoken. The pace of the read was quite swift, so slowing down a little may help when practicing articulation and enunciation. Make sure you don’t lose the ends of words when practicing these qualities. 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. When practicing articulation and enunciation it’s good to over-do it.

If you repeat the “B”, “G” and “K” 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 Peter Padderton script is another good one for practicing “P”, “T” and “D” letters. That cork trick Burger showed in class is also very helpful to practice over-articulating to make words easier to say.

Keep up the great work!