0256 - Weight And Pitch in Intonation

2021.09.13 – 0256 - Weight And Pitch in IntonationAn Introduction to IntonationIntonation is, then, the weight and pitch one puts on individual words or phrases that draw attention to their significance and thereby communicate the overall message. Correct intonation leads a listener through a story, with the reader an interpreter or trusted guide of the facts about what ‘makes the story, a story’. The reader of a newspaper is led around the printed page by its layout. Television approaches this with its graphics and strong visual element, but in radio the layout is invisible and sometimes inaudible. Stories are separated by pauses and there is only the reader’s voice and the writer’s ability to help the listener tell where one story ends and the next begins.Peter Stewart - “Broadcast Journalism” Routledgehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Broadcast-Journalism-Peter-Stewart/dp/1138886033 Intonation is what we naturally do when we ad-lib a conversation. The trick is to work out what we do then, so we can do it when we read the written word out-loud, so we sound conversational in that situation too. We ‘lift the script’ so we appear to be ‘saying’ it, rather than ‘reading’ it. If you’re reading something on air and you want the listener to think that you’re ad-libbing, you have to sound as if you’re processing what you’re talking about and sound conversational. Most books on voice and public speaking omit training in intonation. I have been on one-to-one and group courses on presentation skills and again, and barely a word on this key skill. And you can hear the result of such lack of understanding on radio and TV stations, up and down the dial.This is not one of those books.Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build yourconfidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection andprojection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mictechniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a careerspent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start apodcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode! And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are notrandom topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTERBROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE. Look out for more details of the book during 2021. Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life andhas trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop musicstations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical musicstation BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters onregional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’sPanorama. 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 presentationand production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of“Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and haswritten on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper“Ariel”. Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heardhim on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regionalradio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows,‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts andcommentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedicationprogrammes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspectsof voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts andYouTube, voiceovers and videocalls. The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change theirspeaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or bepressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well awarethat how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfullycommunicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially beingacted upon) by your target audience? This podcast is London-based and examples are spoken in the RP(Received Pronunciation) / standard-English / BBC English pronunciation,although invariably applicable to other languages, accents and dialects. Music credits:"Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  Hosted on Acast. 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