838 – Excessive Oxygenation

2023.04.18 – 0838 – Excessive Oxygenation 

Excessive oxygenation

You only really want to take in as much air as you will need to get to the end of your adlibbed phrase or sentence, or to read what’s been written. So how do you know how much that is?

As for adlibs, it usually comes naturally; I mean, how many times do you see someone strain at the end of a sentence in a conversation as they run out of air, or take a huge gulp before they say something. Almost never. You instinctively have the breath to last the ‘thought’ (or maybe we adapt what we say, as we say it, depending on how much air we have left…)

For script work, it’s good to pre-read and rehearse what it is that someone else wants you to say (or even what you wrote down to read out loud). What sounds good in someone’s head, or looks good on a screen, may not sound good when it is said. The sentences may be Amazonian in length and convolution. Looking specifically at sentence structure (you’re not just looking for commas and full stop/periods, you’re also looking for phrases and sentence sense), can help you work out where to take full or part-breaths.

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