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Right, bit unusual this, being needed to record an English accented narrative for a professionally commissioned documentary. Although i have had to record a narrative with a previous university project, this is unnervingly on a higher importance level. The purpose of the recording session was for a feature about the palm oil industry over in Borneo, which was to explain how it was doing good for the people of the area and not causing the same amount of environmental damage the eco-warriors of the world claim (you've got to read between the lines on which bias this video is aiming to).
They had already drafted in Mel to do the asian accented version of the narritive but the commissioners decided they would like to have a version they could use to pass on over towards westerners to view as well. She had a couple of other narratives to do as well, but breazed through them like she was already the recorded an edited version of herself. Very impressed so i was, and it looked like the precedent was set, could i organise my stuttering wreck of a reading voice in to a cool crisp informative commentary.
It started slowly, took a little time to get my self warmed up into a good rhythem. Any kink, broken word, distorted sound wave or mispronunciation meant that it had to be done again again until it sounded right. First few sections went alright, and I thought i could start to steam through it, until i hit a paragraph with some delightful tongue twisting Sabha language trip ups. Took ages to get through it with sounding like a total mong.
After finally getting throught that torturous period, and some patient (and maybe some stiff tolerance) tutoring from Johan the Director, we got through it much relief and boshed our way through the rest. Such a pain that my brain likes to read faster than my mouth, so it makes the words crash into each other when i say them. If I ever do this again then I should hopefully be more prepared. Give me a bit of time and i'll be leaving Palin and attenborough eating my dust.
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