Voice workshop

After analyzing my voice through vocal elements, I have decided for myself to work on:

- projecting my voice, because before I had comments that my voice is not loud enough

- TH / S sound, because I mix up them often

Warm up

Projection voice:

a. First try to stand in a good posture, because it is really important for producing voice (straight back, head a little bit lift up, shoulders down, you can always go to the wall and check yours posture)

b. Deep breathing with diaphragm, try to breath deep but noiseless, try to inhale for 4 sec, hold 4 sec, exhale for 4 sec, then increase up to 10

c. SSS pulsing exercise, going from quietest to loudest, just notice how your diaphragm is going up and down, check how much air can you inhale and exhale. You should feel as you pulse the ss that the upper belly pushes out a little and the lower belly pulls in a little. As you get nearer and nearer to the end of your breath, you will find that the lower belly will pull in more and more. Go with this as long as you can, what you are doing here is conditioning your breathing so that you can exhale for longer.

d. SSS smoothing exercise, take as much air as you can. Then when you feel air in your diaphragm, start to exhale smoothly, slowly.

Articulation

1. Chewing gum game, put inside your mouth and show to the group that this is the tastiest chewing gum ever! Then more people try it, than more tastier it becomes.

2. Now just pronounce sound, hum (beat yourself), n, o (beat your cheeks), pffr, a, u, e

Exercises

1. Tongue twisters

TH

Room Three Hundred Thirty-Three on the third floor rents for thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents every third Thursday.

Thirty thousand thoughtless boys thought they would make a thundering noise.

She was shocked to see sharks circling the ship and astonished at their sheer size.

2. Radio channel, I point to one after another and this person need to speak as a broadcaster on radio channel. It can be sport, soap opera, news, celebrity

After voice workshop I had a good feedback by the group and leader of the course. In my opinion the way to improve is to learn more about voice terminology. So I can explain better what for we are doing every exercise.

Voice workshop 15.11.19:

A well researched and planned out workshop. Useful exercises for the actors toolkit. Good level and enthusiasm of energy from you. You are demonstrating what it is that you want the group to do and you are explaining how the exercises might help the voice develop. Good series of exercises, looking at vocal strength and projection as well as breathing. Make sure that you are showing evidence in your log of you continuing to work on these exercises in your own time and reflecting on your vocal development. Are the exercises helping you to improve what you think that you need to improve?