How To Record
Steps for recording your message:
Carefully read this informational page. Please state your name and begin your message. If you make a mistake no worries we will edit out the error. Just start over where you made the mistake, no need to hang up, just keep recording. Call this recording number 1-419-862-5665 or click on the icon below enter your number and you will recieve a call to your number to record your message. Please start after the beep.
1. Write your script.
Keep in mind the type of membership you have signed up for and the time allotted. Are you simply recording a general message, studio tour message or a multi-stop tour of your work?
Script preparation is key to sounding professional and polished. Please Download our sample scripts for more examples of other scripts for ideas on what other artists have communicated about their work or specifics about a tour.
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2. Practice your message out loud.
Time how long it will take you. Mark up your script with edits if needed. Make sure to end each of your sentences in an up beat tone. Most of us tend to start our sentences strong and up beat and then get progressively softer in tone as we finish the sentence. Breathing is a good way to pace yourself. It helps to picture a friend to tell your story to for the relaxed and conversational tone that will help engage your listener.
3. Call 419-862-LOOK to record your messages or click the phone icon button above.
Please state your name, artists number and tour or gallery number if applicable and then begin your message.
When you call the number you will hear a welcome message and then you can start recording. (You have up to 2 minutes for your message). Many artists find that their message is better suited to a shorter length; you don’t have to fill all of the two minutes.
4. Start Recording
If you make a mistake, take a breath and start at the beginning of the sentence where you flubbed. No need to hang up or start from the very beginning. We will edit out the error/s for a seamless recording. If there is something that does not sound right we will be in touch. All messages are listened to and edited before they are placed on the 88 88 ArtLook number.
Have fun with this new medium!
Here is an example of a welcome message for an open studio tour and how it was recorded.
Annette Coleman, tour number 15
(A BIG BREATH HERE)
Hi this is Annette Coleman a Multi-Media artist.
I'm currently working with dreams, the meanings, the layers, the images that occupy the dreamstate, the fragments that we remember and symbols that are evocative of the message of the dream. I use old woodcuts as well as drawn images to evoke the mystery of the dreams. These images are copied on mylar and suspended within wax and pigments.
The title of this work in front of you is Dream Transformation.
This is a heated canvas that changes its look over time. I have layered film that reacts to the heated canvas underneath with a black film positive placed over the film. When the canvas heats up the image is revealed. The work changes about every 7 minutes. Take a peek now and then stroll back and look again in a few minutes, look for black areas within the work, most of the black areas have the changing film featured in them.
I’m showing with Linda Gleitz at her home studio this year, tour number 15. Please don’t forget to walk across 3rd Ave. after visiting Linda and myself to see Jerry Boyle’s wonderful sculptures. To see more of my work go to annettecolemanartist.com I look forward to talking to you further when you visit us on the tour.