Excellent read! Very accurate. The pace was a little swift, so if you were to do a second take, you might consider adding a slower paced read as part of showing range in your auditions. There was room to include more emotion and feeling in the read. Narrators are allowed to have an opinion and to express it in the narration about what’s happening in the story. Adding that additional layer to the read can help take it even further and lift the words off the page.

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. Make sure that the input for the microphone is pointed toward your mouth. May I ask what you recorded with and what your setup currently is? A phone, laptop, or something else? All good, just curious, as I may have some suggestions to try depending on your setup.

When you’re ready to take the next step to improve your voiceover recording, you will want to look into treating your recording space with acoustic foam (we recommend 4” thick) and/or blankets to help reduce the reflections and reverb in the space. Basically covering any hard, reflective surfaces that sound bounces off of with soft materials like blankets or towels, etc. It’s not necessary for this class however as we are just focusing on the basics of voice acting, but something to think about as you progress in your journey.

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.

For the purpose of this homework to work on articulation and enunciation, I felt overall you did well with it. There may be room to improve it even further however, so continue to strengthen this skill by really focusing on hitting all of the letters in the words to fully and clearly pronounce them including the endings. 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. Using the cork trick Burger showed in class can really help if you ever find you are having a hard time clearly pronouncing a word. 

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

Overall, well done! Keep up the good work!