Have you ever heard a name or a word for the first time and it just stuck and you couldn’t get it unstuck? We’ve all been there. I recently did a voiceover for a company(and have three more projects to do), whom I was introduced to months ago. The company name was pronounced to me incorrectly when I met the CEO. The CEO didn’t pronounce the name wrong, it was the person making the introduction!!! I assumed the person making the intro knew the name - big mistake!!! So when the time came to actually do the voiceover, I did the entire script incorrectly! On top of it all, the Marketing director actually gave me a pronunciation legend at the bottom of the script!!! But me and my brain were stuck on the name I had been told belonged to the company! Was it my arrogance that prevented me from reading the legend? Well I hope not, it was just a human thing that we do. You hear a word once, you say it a few times and you get stuck!
So I had to get unstuck pretty fast. And it was not easy to do. But there was a benefit in all of it. Since I had already recorded each part of the script three times (I give most clients three takes of each part of a script for choices), I whipped it off in no time the second time through!! And I probably narrated it better the second time through. Well at least I think so!
Is there a secret to getting unstuck? Well I'm not sure if there's a formal method... but I just kept repeating the name about a thousand times out loud and in my head for about a day before I re-recorded!
Lesson 1: read the pronunciation legend first
Lesson 2: call the client to make sure you're saying the name correctly
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