0644 – Script-Reading and Peripheral Vision

2022.10.06 – 0644 – Script-Reading and Peripheral Vision

Peripheral vision

It also helps to be able to read in your head more than a few words ahead of what you are actually saying out loud. If a story has just flashed on your screen and there is no opportunity to read it through fully off-air before you go to it on air (perhaps there is no audio left to play), then you can allow yourself a second’s pause to scan the script for key words to give yourself a sense of what is to come. Then as you read the item word for word, let your eyes dart through to the end of that sentence and the start of the next (a kind of ‘peripheral vision’), so you are more fully aware of what is coming.

That peripheral vision is a bit like a ‘buffer’: your eyes dart through the sentence, the words going into your memory and uttered slower than they are seen. That gives your eyes more time to look further ahead and store more words in your mind, and these are gradually said… and all the while your eyes look to the next phrase or sentence and stores them in your memory buffer too.

And sometimes your eyes may dart back at part of the script you’ve already read, perhaps when you want to check that what you said was what was written, or scanning the page much further ahead to check for any potential pronunciation hazards up-coming.

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