{"id":88,"date":"2011-07-05T15:40:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T22:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2011-08-24T03:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:11:01","slug":"preparing-the-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Preparing the Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Screen-shot-2011-07-05-at-3.30.43-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Screen-shot-2011-07-05-at-3.30.43-PM.png\" alt=\"blood rock radio script, updated\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-07-05 at 3.30.43 PM\" width=\"583\" height=\"435\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Screen-shot-2011-07-05-at-3.30.43-PM.png 583w, http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Screen-shot-2011-07-05-at-3.30.43-PM-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought it might be useful to see the script a bit closer to completion. The script-style &#8220;SPEAKER: Dialogue goes here&#8221; style is my idea, and the color coding is an idea suggested by my wife (I&#8217;d been thinking of it but it was her suggestion that prompted me to actually do it). I also time it, and put time notes in the script when producing the sound bed &#8211; the list of music tracks that goes with the dialogue. Previously the time notes were scribbled notes on a printout, but I&#8217;ve got a little more time now so I&#8217;m doing it right. Oh, and I&#8217;ve eliminated the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seven_dirty_words\">Seven Dirty Words<\/a> &#8211; trickier than it sounds as you can&#8217;t easily do a search and replace.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to practice at least three times &#8211; once to get timing, once with the soundbed, and once for polish. If time permits, I do these on the three evenings prior to appearing on Ann Arbor&#8217;s show just before going to bed, as there&#8217;s some evidence that sleep improves memory consolidation (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/healthysleep.med.harvard.edu\/healthy\/matters\/benefits-of-sleep\/learning-memory\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2005\/06\/050629070337.htm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/09\/090915174506.htm\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But having a nice relaxed holiday afternoon to practice counts too.<\/p>\n<p>See you all tomorrow <a href=\"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=84\">at 7:20AM on Ann Arbor&#8217;s Unbedtime Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>Pictured: a screenshot of the reading script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it might be useful to see the script a bit closer to completion. The script-style &#8220;SPEAKER: Dialogue goes here&#8221; style is my idea, and the color coding is an idea suggested by my wife (I&#8217;d been thinking of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=88\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,3,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}