How to Record Voice for TV News Report

Video Transcript

"BILL ALBIN: Hello, I'm Bill Albin. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you what you need to know to be a local news reporter. In this clip, we're going to talk more about recording your voice. You would use that for working on a package, for example. When I do a package which is a completely pre-produced story, I need to make sure that my voice part of that is properly recorded, and so you would come into an audio booth like this. You would have your script with you. Your script will just be the information that you plan to read, and it's already timed out because your story timing is very important. And you have to make it fit with the other sound bites in the story and the other elements of that story. So you would have your script. You would come into the audio booth, and this would be being recorded either in here or some other source, some other location. And I would read my script in a fashion that made sense that followed the script and sounded natural because no one's going to see me in here doing this. It's all going to be recorded on tape somewhere and without my picture, and it's going to be--then put into that story as just an audio file. So I will record the voice, and later on, I will put the video over top of that, and I will incorporate the sound bites. And I will then take all of that material, put it together into one complete and finished story."