Focusing on the musicality the voice
Gurning:
- Art of making silly faces
Omnish
- More gurning will change the way you sound
Exercise:
- Speak lines normally
- Speak lines in Omnish
- Speak lines normally again
- Notice the differences
Reflection
- Difficulties in speaking Omnish while speaking your lines (the same intention)
- Change in pitch and pace
- More animated in voice and facial expression
- Difference between first and 3rd read
- More emotion
- Gives us more, range, color , texture
- Sounds we’re not used to making these sounds
- More range, color and texture we have make us sound more interesting
- Breaks the usual rhythms we get stuck in
ABAB:
- Get an idea of character playing though different tactics (e.g.: energise, fear, ..)
- Get story/understanding of character
- Commit to the words and actions creates the allusion of character
- Pitch changes
- vouls shift
- Vocal energy can shift
- Texture
- change in speed and delivery
- Break habit, change tactics
- More variety and options
- Hard with short word/phrase – can’t explore tactic much
- Adding nuance to the word
- Creates more depth to the story
- Brings intention.
- What do you want form the audience?
