Today we want to review some of the most productive exercises that professional broadcasters can practice. We already know that voice is the basic work tool for many professionals, but how can we work with it to get the most out of it?
Many times, those who seek to work and improve as an announcer, find themselves with a typical obstacle to today’s rhythm of life: lack of time. However, there are a number of exercises that professional broadcasters can include in their daily routine .
An announcer’s training starts when he gets out of bed in the morning. In fact, the shower is an ideal setting to warm up your voice. How? Nothing more and nothing less than vacuuming the mist to hydrate the vocal cords. With the strings already hydrated, continue heating. A series of breathing and phonation exercises can be done at this time . Also body and joint stretches.
When leaving home, training can continue. For example, grimacing and different sounds while walking. You can also take advantage of and for example read the ads on the billboards or the mupis on the sidewalks. Everything to get to the recording studio with the voice ready to start the day. Of course, on the street an announcer cannot forget a scarf or kerchief to protect his throat from the cold and from air conditioning. Because the voice is the basic working tool in these cases and you have to pamper it both in winter and in summer.
If you go by car, you can also practice with your voice. For example, using the wedges as work material and copying parts of those locutions, repeating melodic curves, tones and closings . This interesting way of imitating will help the announcer to acquire more resources and tools when facing a text.
Reading a folio daily using different rhythms is an excellent practice to test the vocalization of these professionals. To achieve these rhythm changes, a metronome can be used. It is used to speed up or slow down the reading speed. There are different mobile applications that include it. Because reading aloud every day is the best way to gain agility and develop early reading, very useful in this type of work.
