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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0376 - The Script’s Too Long Or The Time’s Too Short
Description: 2022.01.11 – S2011 – 0376 - The Script’s Too Long Or The Time’s Too ShortIn a commercial voice-over situation, the duration of the piece is of the essence. If the spot has to be a certain length (to fit with the pictures, or because that’s the duration that has been bought, or it’s the duration of all commercials on that network so all breaks are balanced on different transmitters), then that is the length it has to be. This can cause some problems:·        The script writer might have tried to cram too much infor...