Recording Narration for a Radio Story
This is also known as “tracking” your story.
- You’ll need to find a quiet place with good acoustics to record your narration. Because most of us don’t have access to a nice recording studio, you will sometimes be in a position where you have to create your own. Carpeting and other soft surfaces absorb sound. The old “under the covers” trick is something that many reporters have used in the field.
- Vocal exercises can help you enunciate. Speak from deep down, not from high up in your throat. Drinking milk makes your voice sound thick. If possible, stand up while you’re recording.
- Go through your script beforehand and make sure you can say all the words without tripping over them. If there’s something you keep getting stuck on, find a simpler way to say it.
- Record a few takes of each line. You can edit the recording and pick out the best ones when you put it all together.
- Be conversational.
- Be authoritative.
Tutorial: GarageBand and Audacity