Audio

This week was an easy going week at WSB so I was able to learn a something that I already thought I knew well. This was the week of voice and audio. I did my first VO this week and learned that my voice sucks. I was rather monotone and that won't work for news production.

In news the biggest struggle is to keep the viewer interested. It is especially difficult because producers and reporters don't choose the news, they are the messengers. It is their job to get you the info you you need and keep your attention. Therefore, when it comes to your voice on something like a VO, the reader, wheter it's a reporter or producer, must maintain a conversational style... ie monotone is not useful.

So I recorded the audio five or six times. In the process I learned how to work audio, compress and save in to the track. I used tracks from each of the recordings to make the VO. None of them were perfect but parts of each of them were. As producer audio and voice are two things I have to understand to be succcessful. I'm getting better at it.