Who: im telling a story to a friend about robin

What: the story of robins win at the weird rare race

When: after the race a few days ago

Where: at my house hanging out

Why: because they were curious about the how the weird rare race is like and who won recently

Good read! 

In some places it felt conversational but in other places it felt more like a read. You had a good start on picturing your scene. Take it even further and think about more of the details - are you playing music in the background? Eating something? Drinking something? Lounging on the couch? Playing pool? Are you both relaxed or are you in a hurry to get rid of your friend and get them out the door? Your performance was a little fast. Think about how your friend is dynamically responding as you tell them each point. Are they staring at you blankly? Laughing? Confused? Amused? Conversations particularly with friends tend to have natural pauses as you talk and your friend processes what you’re saying. This felt like a rushed explanation or more of a read. It’s a challenging skill to acquire to sound genuine and authentic, so I encourage you to keep practicing and seek additional training on this - particularly if you’d like to go into commercial work. 

0:11 Mispronounced “Rennes”. Don’t be afraid to look up how to pronounce words online if you aren’t familiar with them. Some great reference sources include Cambridge Dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/), youglish.com, forvo.com and You Tube Videos among other places (there’s a lot of options out there). You can simply type in “How to pronounce [word]” in Google search and it should give you several references. Try to avoid the robot ones though.

0:12 Read “Renos” instead of “Reno”

0:43 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 (like a natural pause point). 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. 

0:47 Read “races” instead of “race”.  Be aware of changing words and dropping or adding “s”. 

0:49 Missed the word “course”.

0:50, 0:51 Read “around” instead of “round”

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.

Overall, solid performance. Keep up the good work!