Show #60: Faking it. Or how to read a script naturally
Do you ever need to read a script – for a podcast or otherwise – and not sound like you’re reading? In this show I offer suggestions for sounding conversational while you’re reading.
This podcast is a just 14 minutes. Please listen and then let me know what you think! You can download the show right here or subscribe through iTunes
Here are the show notes:
Comment line 206-338-4200
00:01 Intro and welcome
01:00 About today’s topic: why it’s important to not sound like you’re reading
01:30 If you have two people speaking on the podcast, conversational tone comes pretty easily
03:55 Scenario 1: You want to script at least parts of your podcast and not sound like you’re reading
04:20 Tips on vocal variety, pauses, fillers, colloquial language
06:00 Reading is absolutely fine if you acknowledge that you’re reading
06:48 Scenario 2: You are recording someone and you need to help them sound unscripted, yet convey the necessary information
08:00 When you record someone, remind them that you can do several takes and that the recording can be edited
09:11 Where to send comments: email to donna@trafcom.com, call the comment line at 206-338-4200 or post a message to the Trafcom News Podcast blog
10:00 Comment from Piotr Golonka in Poland
11:27 The Forward Podcast’s list of PR podcasts from Paull Young and Luke Armour:
For Immediate Release
Inside PR
Trafcom News Podcast
New Comm Road
Comms Café
Six Pixels of Separation
PR Junction
Across the Sound
Marketing Over Coffee
On The Record Online
Managing the Gray
American Copywriter
The Client Side
12:49 Invitation to my Webinar, Podcasting 101 for Communicators and Marketers, August 21 at 2 p.m. EDT
13:49 Look for the Trafcom News Podcast on Blubrry.com
Theme music is “Beneath Your Surface” by the Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet from the Podsafe Music Network
Donna!
The graphic you chose for the "trimming the fat" episode was really effective. It would also be good applied aversive therapy for a "weight watchers" site.
Posted by: The Other Tom Russell | August 25, 2007 at 01:15 PM
True. Every time I look at it I lose my appetite!
Posted by: Donna Papacosta | August 25, 2007 at 01:20 PM