0687 – Vocal, Physical and Mental Health For Narration

2022.11.18 – 0687 – Vocal, Physical and Mental Health For Narration

Good vocal, physical and mental health – you will be spending a lot of time by yourself in a booth, concentrating, so you need to be mentally strong. A lot of reading will require a lot of vocal strength: warm-up exercises, hydration and built-in rest breaks. In the booth itself, you need to have everything set up ergonomically so you are not under too much stress physically as you read. You need to build in breaks at natural pauses in the text, so you can eat, stretch, connect with others and see sunlight.

Seeing the sense in the script – Although you will need to read the text exactly, word for word, bear in mind that writers write but we are the audio storytellers. So read for understanding by paying attention more to phrasing, rather than strict script punctuation. For example, in a chase scene, you may run sentences on from one another to give pace and urgency.

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