This week's focus will mostly be just on recording. For research, I have been reading articles on sounding conversational, although, I will go ahead and state that I do not believe I have ever successfully sounded as conversational as I could with audio recording. Hopefully though, the research will help me with this task.
According to Jonathan Kern, the author of Sound Reporting, in order to write successfully for the radio, the statements must be easy to follow (25). Basically, this means that more simple statements are a plus. Huge complex sentences generally do not work, but this also depends on how the sentences sound. When writing for the radio or any kind of audio broadcast (in my case podcast), one must read the information out loud and be able to judge whether or not it sounds good and works when spoken. Too much information at once can cause an audience to not "catch" it all, and since this is audio, they cannot go back and reread the statements (Sound Reporting 26).
It is also good to be able to write the way that you speak (Sound Reporting 27). This is the section that gets me because I often have problems articulating my thoughts out loud already. Normally when I write for an audio recording, it sounds unnatural because I often do not speak in a clear articulatory manner. I have always been better at articulating thoughts in writing, for example, than in person. However, I plan on doing the best that I can to not sound too unnatural and unlike myself, while speaking intelligibly. Also, it is best to make audio sound as though the communication is between the reporter and a single listener instead of a large group of listeners (Sound Reporting 27). So, basically, my biggest challenge will be finding a balance between speaking like myself and being intelligible, while trying to sound like I am speaking to a single archetypal listener.
Kern, Jonathan. Sound Reporting: the NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008. Print.
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