0389 - How To Talk To Time

2022.01.24 – S2024 – 0389 - How To Talk To Time

A sense of timing can be developed in the same way as an experienced driver can tell the speed of a car as it passes, or while they’re in it, and with experience you will be able to slightly adjust your reading rate ‘speedometer’ (or a ‘read-ometer’!) to say, shave a second or two off a script:

·        Taking shorter breaths – or longer ones (that can be edited out) that will allow you take fewer breaths over the duration of the script

·        Slightly increasing the intonation may give you the licence to speak slightly faster

·        Contracting words and pauses – but be careful not to gabble.

Making the words fit a longer duration is not always as simple as slowing down:

·        Pauses can be a bit longer and micro-pauses can perhaps be added after key words or phrases.

·        Words may be drawn out a little.

But you can’t just read. Each. Word. Followed. By. A. Pause. You still have to have flow and maintain a meaning with what you’re reading.

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