0377 - Being Chased By The Music

2022.01.12 – S2012 – 0377 - Being Chased By The Music ·        You are being ‘chased by the music’ Many presenters like to talk with music running underneath them. Such a track is called a ‘bed’. It makes them feel safe and less exposed as they can pause for a moment and know that there’s no silence or ‘dead air’. But music beds can encourage someone to talk too fast as presenters confuse pace for ‘momentum’ or ‘excitement’. Although your delivery should mirror the bed (a lugubrious read over a dance track would sound as disconnected as a motor-mouth over a mindfulness melody), don’t let the music force you into speeding up so much that you garble. That is, don’t let it ‘chase you’.Increasing the pace you talk, won’t necessarily increase the momentum or excitement of what you are talking about: doing something that’s not interesting faster, does not make it more interesting One more thing, if the final commercial will have music with it, always ask to hear it, so you can match your speech rate and rhythm with that of the music – so when the producer lays you down on the bed (so to speak), it ‘fits’ snuggly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.