0682 – Natural Narration Foundations

2022.11.13 – 0682 – Natural Narration Foundations

Natural Narration Foundations

In the main, we have been looking at short reads, commercials and news stories and the like, but sometimes you may have a longer read to perform, such as an audiobook.

Longer reads need to be approached in a slightly different way than shorter ones. Instead of a series of short sentences about the attributes of a car for a commercial, or the misdemeanours of a politician in a broadcast news story, there are several sentences in each paragraph, and each paragraph is linked as an explanation or story arc develops for several or hundreds of pages.

You have to be familiar with the longer script so you know, and can express in your voice, how the different paragraphs are connected, give the listener confidence that you know where you are going, and make it easier for them to follow.

Notice too in a longer piece that the writer may show how they want it to be read aloud, in the way they wrote it down. Look at the sense of the sentence, its length and the kind of words used.[1]

[1] A look at different narration styles in podcasts, with audio examples, here: https://theaudiostoryteller.substack.com/p/mic-drop-

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