0719 – Stamina and Timing For Your e-Learning Narration

2022.12.20 – 0719 – Stamina and Timing For Your e-Learning Narration

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Stamina - Such reads may be quite demanding: explaining a new procedure to an oncologist or orthodontist may involve complex language; leading people through new regulatory procedures may need careful intonation as your voice will help explain the changes; a series of modules may need lots of preparation, patience and studio time with a read that is consistent and seamless. So you will need to sound not just good but consistently good. The scripts can be long and dense, with detailed, sub-claused sentences and multi-syllable words. So, you need to have the mental focus and vocal health to keep your concentration, ensure that you don’t start to sound ‘flat’, and the last hour sounds much like the first in terms of interest and intonation. Oh, and also to be able not to get frustrated and flustered when you make a fluff. You can correct it, re-focus and move on. The nature of these reads is that there are likely to be different sections, chapters or sub-topics within the script, so you can get a natural pause in proceedings, but they all have to sound similar as they may be heard together rather than unit-by-unit.

On this: No annoying lilt or mouth clicks – people will be listening to you for several minutes or maybe even hours, so even though they may not have to love your voice, it certainly shouldn’t grate.

Timing – you may well have to speak to visuals, matching your delivery to changing on-screen graphics. Indeed, you won’t always see a video, and just be working from still images and a time-code.

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