0720 – Sight-Reading Skills For Your e-Learning Narration

2022.12.21 – 0720 – Sight-Reading Skills For Your e-Learning Narration

Sight reading - As the scripts are likely to be quite long, you need to be able to scan once (to check for potential stumble-ridden words and acronyms), and then read pretty much by sight. Why so little rehearsal? Because the scripts can be so long, and dry it simply may not be viable to either rehearse it all or to make too many stumbles in the actual recording as editing time could make the whole project unviable. That also means you need to be fluent, proficient, and able to self-direct and spot any slips and trips (potential and actual). If you have more than five or so ‘pick-ups’ on a page then it’s probably not a good fit for you.

Intellect - you need to understand what it is that you are reading so you can say it with a sense of authority and significance and so help engage your listening audience. If you don’t know university-level words and how they are pronounced then you really may struggle. After all, you need to know when you don’t know how a word is said, not just present with presumption. And you need to know the intention of the lines and the sense of the sentence in an industry or trade that you are not hugely familiar with. You don’t need to know the exact workings of the machine or the process that you are describing, but you need to understand the intention of the writer. So, a general education (reading and consuming media so you know a bit about a lot and so are perhaps more comfortable talking about a topic) is also an advantage. Some internal training might not just have long words, but long sentences which means being able to navigate them with the correct intonation, pace, pauses and pitch to make them understandable.

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