0186 – Marking Up For…Phrases

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2021.07.05-0186 – Marking Up For…Phrases

Marking up for … a phrase

Your script will have punctuation for sure, but of course, that’s an ‘artificial articulatory construct’ – in other words, we don’t speak using punctuation. We adlib stories, conversationally sharing information as inspiration strikes us.

And as very often a sentence carries more than a single message you need to be aware of where each one starts and ends as well as what the key points are within each.

For example look back at that previous sentence, there are several parts to it:

· And as very often a sentence carries more than a single message

· you need to be aware of where each one starts and ends

· as well as what the key points are within each.

Here’s another example:

“With WeWillBuyYourCar.com everything is super easy, safe and secure from selling your old car to buying your new one all in one place and all in one day.”

As it’s got just one full stop it appears to be one chain of thought and one sentence, but actually there are several messages here and you need to distinguishes between them so the listener hears what they are. You can do this by breaking each one into a different line, or by putting slash marks between them:

“With WeWillBuyYourCar.com everything is super easy, safe and secure / from selling your old car / to buying your new one / all in one place / and all in one day.”

Identifying these messages will help you work out where to add pause and inflection to better communicate them … as we will see later on.

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Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life and has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical music station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s Panorama. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts, travel news presenters and voice-over artists.

He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of “Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and has written on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper “Ariel”.

Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional radio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows, ‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts and commentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedication programmes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly 2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspects of voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts and YouTube, voiceovers and videocalls.

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