Voice Why is the voice of the actor important?

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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

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

Breath Control

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

Resonators and Articulators

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.

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.

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