0643 – Warming Up To Cold Reads

2022.10.05– 0643 – Warming Up To Cold Reads

Warming up to cold reads

Sight-reading is what many rolling news presenters have to do: pick up a news script and read it straight off, with the correct pacing and intonation so it makes sense to the listener.

One trick is to be able to sense from the first few words of the story what tone you should deliver it in. This can sometimes be tricky: a story which starts “a police officer who saved a woman from a burning house …” could continue, “…has been praised for his heroism” or “…has himself died in hospital”. So, if in doubt, start the story in a ‘standard’ tone, neither light or heavy, so you can move into the correct one when you realise the exact content of the story.

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