Hello! Requesting feedback and suggestions again.

I'm hoping this short, customizable script will help new VAs to give listeners a little sample platter/teaser of different tones of voice they can do.

Synopsis (Listener perspective): An aloof psychologist needs survey data for a research project, and you volunteer to take their survey. They read you a list of words and phrases and ask you to note down your emotional response to each one. But some of these phrases, and the way they say them, seem more suited to their bedroom instead of their office...

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Feedback questions:

• Any suggestions for a better title/tags? (This applies to most of my scripts, really. Coming up with good titles is the bane of my existence.)
• Should I just drop the whole framing device of the listener sitting in an office filling out a paper form and make this direct-to-listener?
• Does the "Harvard Sandwich" ordering of the phrases in the survey (nice, degrading, nice again) make sense or is there a more interesting way to pace this?
• Any suggestions for other pet names/phrases to include? Of course, this is a very flexible script by its nature, so VAs will also be encouraged to add their own.

I know I said I wouldn't do degradation in my scripts when I first joined the Guild, but this one just really seemed to call for some degrading names to provide some contrast and make the survey make more sense. And technically, the listener isn't being called these names, just being read them as part of a perfectly professional survey, right?

Word count: 398 words including directions

Inclusivity notes: No physical descriptions of speaker or listener.

Sound Effects and Improv: All sound effects are optional. A bit of improv or rephrasing to help your reading feel more natural to you is welcome, and coming up with your own list of "survey phrases" is encouraged.

Gender changes (and changes of physical descriptions to go with them) are allowed, and intended. This would really just entail changing the list of survey phrases.

Copyright/Disclaimer: This script is written by someone over 18 years of age, for consumption by people over 18 years of age, and all characters in the script are consenting adults over 18 years of age. All rights to this script are reserved by the author, with the exception that rights are granted to record the script and freely post it as long as the person who makes the recording doesn't charge money for access to it.