0422 – Pausing Practicalities

2022.02.26 – 0422 – Pausing Practicalities

Pausing practicalities

If recording a voice over often it doesn’t matter if you pause for several seconds in the middle of a script. A producer or director will understand that if you have an intense, heavy technical read, or maybe one with subclauses or no punctuation (for example a ‘terms and conditions’ section), then you may have to record several versions starting at different points and leave it to them to edit together. Obviously only do this after a conversation with them and together you can find a good spot at which you can breathe and also make an edit easier for them.

It will be better for everyone if you stop to take a longer pause at a place where there is a comma or fullstop/period, than to fight through to the end of a sentence and squeeze every last ounce of air from your lungs as you do so.

Starting at the beginning of the script and seeing how far through you can get before you make a mistake, doesn’t make a lot of sense but uses a lot of time. Just make sure that when, using the stop start method above, you keep in mind the intonation in which you ended the previous sentence before you paused.

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