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Voice

Voice. Why is the voice of the actor important? You must be heard by everyone! Lines contain crucial info about plot and characters Audience will get angry/bored if they can’t hear It conveys what kind of character your are playing

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Voice

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  1. Voice • Why is the voice of the actor important? • You must be heard by everyone! • Lines contain crucial info about plot and characters • Audience will get angry/bored if they can’t hear • It conveys what kind of character your are playing • It conveys what your character thinks and feels about the events that are taking place

  2. Breath Control • Diaphragmatic Breathing • A breathing technique useful to actors that increases air capacity and improves breath control • Diaphragm: connective muscle and tissue between your abdominal and chest cavaties • Contracts when you inhale, causing your abdomen to expand • Expands when you exhale, causing your abdomen and rib cage to contract

  3. Breath Control

  4. Making and Shaping Sounds • Vowels: open, sustained sounds • Formed by RESONATORS: the hard and soft palates, throat and sinuses • Openness and flexibility of your resonators affects the RESONANCE of your voice: quality of your vocal tone • Consonants: stopped or shaped sounds • Formed by ARTICULATORS: jaw, lips, teeth, tongue, and soft palate • Use of your articulators affects your ARTICULATION: the clear and precise pronunciation of words

  5. Resonators and Articulators

  6. Projection • Project: (verb) to use your voice in such a way that it fills the performing space so that every member of the audience can hear and understand you • SHOUTING IS NOT PROJECTING! • Achieved by focusing your voice on a particular spot and speaking clearly with sustained control.

  7. Expression • Use variety in your voice to express changing thoughts and emotions. • Variety in speech=INFLECTION • Inflection can be varied through changes in five elements of voice • Pitch: How low or high your voice is • Volume: How loud or soft your voice is • Tempo: how fast or slowly you speak • Phrasing: how you divide your speeches into smaller parts, adding pauses to create emphasis and a rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences • Quality: the individual sound of a particular voice, characterized as any of the following • shrill, nasal, raspy, breathy, booming, quivering, etc.

  8. Diction • Diction involves… • The correct articulation of sounds • Proper formation and pronunciation of words • Careful enunciation of syllables • Clear and distinct speech • The musical rhythm of naturally spoken language

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