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Improve your acting skills by using your voice effectively. Learn to control speed, projection, clarity, expression, and pitch. Overcome nervousness through preparation, proper breathing, and vocal exercises. Enhance your performance with nuances like posture, eye contact, and poise.
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Rate • Problem: 90% of beginning actors speak too fast. • Solution: Have someone interrupt you when you are rehearsing to remind you to slow down!
Projection • Problem: Beginning actors often speak too softly on stage due to nervousness and poor breathing. • Solution: Be well-prepared. Do your breathing and vocal exercises.
Clarity • Problem: Garbled speech is caused by poor enunciation or improper pausing. • Solution: Mark script to remind you when to pause. Do your vocal exercises.
Expression • Problem: Beginners are usually too subtle in their expression. • Solution: Overemphasize to exaggerate as much as possible.
Pitch • Problem: Beginners lack variety in pitch (monotone). • Solution: Vocal exercises. Mark your script to remind you to add variety.
Other Elements that Affect a Vocal Performance • Posture: Stand straight with feet apart. Hold script just above waist level. • Eye contact: Look at the audience at least half of the time. • Lack of preparation: Rehearse 15 to 20 times. Really! • Poise: Do not let audience know if you mess up (i.e. giggling, rolling eyes, apologizing, etc.)