15/9/17
On the second day of my RSL we were given our first PowerPoint. In which we learnt key phrases on how use describe peoples voice and were encouraged to explain our personal voice idiosyncrasies with the rest of the group. After the break we were tasked with creating a PowerPoint of our own voice consisting of two slides; the first was to describe our current voice using the new categories we learnt and the second page was to describe how we could better our voice for future performances. My presentation looked like this:
I did like how I used my links
to better explain and reinforce my point, as describing how many people use
altering volume in replacement of pitch can go over some peoples heads without
a clear example of that. However, if I had a longer deadline for this task I
believe I could have created perhaps a plan for increasing my pitch margins, as
the voice box can be changed though the right use similar to how people can
change muscles by lifting weights.
18/9/17
On the third day we had to give
a physical presentation to the rest of the group using the PowerPoint we had
created over the weekend. While I did get praise for how my PowerPoint used
precise and engaging links to examples I was not personally happy with how I
began the presentation. Since I did not have an exact script and instead
decided to recall the basic topics and improvise, in an attempt to create a more approachable presentation, I
ended up pausing to this what to say next and redoing words. I believe I should
have instead created a script in which I loosely follow allowing for a more
approachable speaking tone but also reducing the chances of me losing track on
what I would say next. Here's a link to
a video of the presentation: https://youtu.be/gTmnvhDxxrE
After the break we were given an extract from The sorrows of
Sandra saint by Lee Hall and were told to go in pairs, choose an extract from
the piece to read and experiment with
different ways to read them. We would later perform this to the rest of the
group later on. Since our group had an odd pair that day I was paired with a
learning mentor Which allowed me to have all creative control over the piece. I
decided that I would read for Sandra in a way that would express her anger and
resentment towards Scout by having her at
a higher volume to scout and by giving off an assertive tone. I then decided to
have scout be read as very high pitch and inconsistent in volume to describe
his timidness towards his older sister. I also added a pause after the line
Scout: “how” and before the corresponding line Sandra: “the way you sit there
and let me get picked on” to convey how Sandra was already convinced that her
family were against her without thinking of supporting evidence and creating it
on the spot when questioned.
22/9/17
At the start of the day we
handed in our 12 line scripts and then
were given another persons script and a partner to work with. We were tasked to
think about how we would audibly perform them and what sound effects we would
use. This was the script I was given:
Bus driver: oi mate make up, we are at the last stop
Person: huh?
Bus driver: time to get off!
Person: Oh
Bus driver: Well hurry up then
Person: alright alright
Bus driver: Come on mate! I want to get home
Person: where are we?
Bus driver: Walworth
Person: What time is it?
Bus driver: 12:30 mate
Person: Oh bloody hell!
I was in the role of “person” a
character who is woken by the bus driver at the back of the bus. I made the
decision of playing the role with low energy and having poor enunciation. This
is because the character would have just have awoken and as a result would not
be fully in control of his voice. I advised my partner to play the role of the
bus conductor in an angry and authoritive way as their character is clearly
vexed by the person sleeping on the back o the bus. I think we could have made
our riding better if we incorporated accents into it. The piece clearly defines
itself to be set in south London and perhaps we could have made the bus drivers
accent reflect that. We could have even made the “person” character have a
northern or even Scottish accent to display how far away from his intentional
destination he really was. Here is a link to my partner and I reading it: https://youtu.be/EfHEu_hZlve
we were given a script from the archers and told to go into a small group; each one of us were given a character and told to research that character. I was given this script:
And the character of tom. From my research tom is:
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A member of the archer family, and as the name
suggests they are the main focus of the series.
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He used to be in a relationship with Kirsty,
however after a while he decided to leave her for someone else.
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After Helen had driven over mike Tom decided it
would be best if he took the blame for the accident.
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He was engaged with Brenda during which he had
an affair with his buyer Tamsin. Brenda eventually split up with him.
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Tom got back with Kirsty and eventually proposed
to her during Christmas, then deciding to ditch her at the alter and then move
to Canada.
It is unclear when this extract
of the series is set and therefore it is hard to decide on how I should present
my character. If it was in a period in which he and Kirsty were in a
relationship the way I speak should reflect that. In addition, if this was set
in a time near to when tom took the fall for Helen driving over mike then Helen
would need to sound indebted to tom.
From doing more research I now
know that the script is from an episode that aired on the 20th of
October. I also know that in the chronology of the series tom gets engaged to
Kirsty over the holiday season. Therefore it is not a stretch to assume that
Kirsty and tom would be in a relationship in this time period. Also the
incident with tom taking Helens blame was in 2006, 7 years before this scene.
As a result it’s safe to assume that Helens and toms relationship has moved own
from her being indebted to him. As a result I would portray Tom and Kirsty as
flirtatious towards each other as it’s reasonable to think they are together
during this time period, and have Helen as neutral or maybe slightly depressive
to tom as she is his sister but also she had begun a relationship with Rob, who
abuses her. Finally Henry is only 2 years and 10 months old, and as a result
would be relatively easy to display with poor enunciation and a high volume and
pitch.
29/9/17
On this day we started by
rehearsing our scene from the archers ready to be recorded. During this time I
decided to adopt a northern ascent as I thought it would better portray the
character. After the recording I decided to reflect on what I had done. I
believed my instruction to Lily in the role of Kristy to try and say her lines
in flirtatious way, which I did also. I also told Harriet in the role of Helen
to sound interested after the name rob was mentioned as in the time frame of
the script (mid October 2013) Rob and Helen began their relationship. However I
believe my performance was not without fault; I believe I should have begun
practicing the ascent more before the recording than I actually did. This way
it would sound more genuine and less potentially distracting. Also, my final
line in which I have a long pause in-between “then” and “Kristy” didn’t exactly
work as I left the pause for too long making it feel awkward and unnatural. We
were then given a script and a link to a synopsis of “Hope Springs” and told to
read both and prepare to audition for one of the roles by Monday. After reading
it, I felt an attraction to the role of “pupil 6” who is a pyromaniac, I would
love to play a manic character with a very simple thesis for a change, also the
way he is portrayed in the script can be seen as humorous, while I have not a
much experience with that field of acting, I’d love to develop my skills to
expand my acting range. Here’s a link to
my audio performance
https://youtu.be/yZ7UGvbegEI
https://youtu.be/yZ7UGvbegEI
17/11/17
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Vocal Choices
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Vocal Qualities
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Presenting
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Radio Broadcasting
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Theatre Performance
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1. Intonation
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Melody
Variation in tone and melody is vital. Decide which words and
passages deserve extra attention and increase the tone to emphasise these
points.
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In a presenting sense, It is important to vary your tone to
engage the viewers’ attention. This is due to how television as a medium has
to account for how your audience may not be present for all of your
production as a result you will need to give them a reason to stay turned as
it were to listening to you and you can do this by varying your tone.
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Since radio is a completely audio medium of entertainment, it
is beneficial for you to increase your melody in your speech as a way to
increase your audience’s attention.
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In a theatre setting, your melody can be used to represent
your character. For instance, you could have a stoic character have little
variation in their melody of speech. Whereas, If you had a manic character you would want
to variate your melody of speech.
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2. Volume
Projecting your voice to ensure everybody in the audience can
hear you is essential.
To draw the audience’s attention to certain parts of a speech,
try varying the volume – sometimes louder, sometimes softer – so that
selected passages stand out from the rest.
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If you are having your voice recorded through a microphone to
be on television but are also with a live
studio audience, you need to tread a fine line with your volume. You need to
be load enough for your voice to be projected to the audience but not so load
that you peak the microphone. Undoubtedly this balance of volume is more
demanding than either of the other mediums
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Due to how your voice is recorded in a microphone you should
not have a loud volume when speaking, otherwise your microphone will peak
which is undesirable in recordings.
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For theatre performances it’s almost mandatory that you
increase your voice and project it due to how in a theatre you are not
amplified by a microphone and the distance that the audience is from you.
However, there are situations that being quiet is acceptable, for instance if
there is a motif line that is repeated throughout the play you could risk
being quiet since that audience would be able to expect you to say the line
that you said.
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3. Clarity
Don’t forget to articulate every word, to ensure clarity on
your part and understanding on the part of the audience.
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Clarity in your voice is very important, as I have mentioned
before it is very important that you consider that your viewers may be
watching you intermittently and not in one setting. To account for this you
need to be as articulate as possible as to allow the viewer to quickly catch
up to speed with your programme from the time they hypothetically missed.
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Due to how radio is done with high tech microphones, it is
possible to be comprehensible if you do not articulate perfectly. However,
being unarticulated does not fit well with a formal broadcast and its advised that you articulate properly as
the audience cannot pick up on visual cues to help them understand what you
were saying if they did not hear you.
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Since there is no microphone to amplify your voice it is
important to articulate so that the audience would be able to understand you.
However, there are some instances where you could use this to your advantage
if you were playing a intentionally incomprehensible character such as a
stereotype of a teenager
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4.Emphasis
Emphasising different words can change the focus of a message
by altering meaning and/or implication.
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If you are hosting a game show for example, you will need to
emphasise guest player’s names as to allow the audience to comprehend who
they are. If you are hosting a news show, you should follow the same
principal with names but also place names and all proper nouns, as they are
the most important part of any news story.
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While making a broadcast you can use emphasis to display the
main points of any topics you cover by extenuating them.
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Your emphasis can be used to portray your characters
priorities on stage. The sentence “I never said she stole money” is a good
example of this. If you add emphasis on any word in the sentence it takes on
a different meaning. Such as “I
never said she stole money” indicates someone else claimed it, or “I never said she stole money” displays how
the person saying it implied it through a way that wasn’t vocal. ETC
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5. Pauses
There are several purposes for which pauses can be used..
· to give listeners a chance to absorb something
· to generate expectations about something that’s going to be
said
· to give the presenter a moment to focus
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In a game show pauses should be used between introducing a new
person or a new segment of the show. This allows the audience to clap If they
fell the need to and gives them time to process the new information that they
are given. If you are hosting a news
program it would be useful to pause between stories to give a clear
indication that you are speaking about another subject.
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In radio, pauses should be scarce. This is because radio is an
audio medium and as a result, a long pause is a moment in time where there is
absolutely no input to the listener. This could bore them or even make them
believe that their radio is broken while you do not speak.
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In a theatre performance, you can use pauses to create
dramatic tension. And to show confusion that your character may have. However,
pauses in speech can also be used to indicate when you are changing the
people that you speaking to or even just changing topic.
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6. Pacing
If a speech is delivered too fast, it can hinder understanding
and generate anxiety in the audience.
If it’s delivered too slowly, it can tire and bore people.
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Your pacing as a presenter is similar in how it needs to tread
the fine line between too much and too little. If you have an extremely fast
pace it won’t match the medium that you are performing in, as your audience
may not be present for your entire piece, therefore having a fast pace would
cause the audience to become lost and would not insetivise them to keep
watching you. The inverse is also true, you need to keep a high enough pace
that you can engage or interest an audience.
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The pacing of your speech in a theatre or in a radio setting
can be used to portray the level of stress in your character. For example, if
you have a fast pace to your speech then it shows that your character is
stressed. The inverse is also true, by having a slow pace it will display how
your character is not too stressed. However, it is important to not slow down
your speech as this could end up boring the audience if this happens for a
long period of time.
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The pacing of your speech in a theatre or in a radio setting
can be used to portray the level of stress in your character. For example, if
you have a fast pace to your speech then it shows that your character is
stressed. The inverse is also true, by having a slow pace it will display how
your character is not too stressed. However, it is important to not slow down
your speech as this could end up boring the audience if this happens for a
long period of time.
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7. Tone
Setting the right tone for the speech overall can ensure
better understanding and relevance to the audience.
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A TV presenter must have a one of two personalities. One would
be a neutral and professional one, the other would be an enthusiastic
personality. These two personalities are used for different task. A natural
tone is more suited to news as it allows the viewer to focus on the news
story and not how the person is saying it. The enthusiastic tone can be used
when presenting a game show, it is mainly used to build excitement in the
viewers and live audience and give them a reason to stay watching them.
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Tone is something that’s quite hard to display by your voice
as it is mainly given by the word you use. However, you can affect the tone
of your speech on stage by using pacing, pauses volume and emphasis to an extent. You cannot use
vocal techniques to change the tone of “I will kill you” to be anything but
malicious.
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Tone is something that’s quite hard to display by your voice
as it is mainly given by the word you use. However, you can affect the tone
of your speech on stage by using pacing, pauses volume and emphasis to an extent. You cannot use
vocal techniques to change the tone of “I will kill you” to be anything but
malicious.
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Opinion piece on a serious, current news story. Political,
environmental, social issues.
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Amazon, Google Starbucks eBay Facebook. What do all these have
in common? They are highly successful businesses, and they are all not paying
the UK the right amount of tax. This year, Amazon paid 15 million of their
19.5 billion earnings to the uk or . In 2013 Google paid 20% on their claimed
earnings of 1 billion pounds. However, the US branch of Google has listed
their uk earnings as 6 billion. Starbucks paid 6.7 million to the uk government
while making 379.9 million from our country that was % of their money.
Finally eBay paid a mere 1.6 million pounds in corporation tax while their US
counterpart has logged their earnings to be 1.32 billion, % was given to our
government.
Im sure not many of you are surprised to hear this. The
question is how can we change this? Currently the Labour party are on the
opinion that we should try and strongman the corporations on giving us the
money they agreed to give us by operating in this area, effectively making
them pay up or get out. This can be an inviting option as the corporations
would know that while their profit margins would be lower than before if they
paid their full tax it would still be above that of no profit from not being
allowed to operate in the uk. The conservative party are against this idea;
their belief is that they may choose to abandon operating in the uk if we do
this as to send a warning to other countries not to do the same. Taking way
thousands of jobs and services with them.
And there is president for this. This year the local London
government gave a similar ultimatum to uber, to go with their safety and
privacy regulations or no longer operate in the city, and they choose the
latter regardless of the loss of money it must have caused them.
While not on the subject of taxes it is an example of how a
government cannot try and force international corporations to play by their
rules.
So what can we do then? My solution is that we have a
referendum on whether the government should force international companies to
pay the taxes they should. This way regardless of the public decision it will
turn out best for our government and our country. If it becomes a “yes”
overall the public’s backing will make the corporations want to comply
otherwise them retreating away from the uk will make international news and
therefore create a global dialog on the way they cheat the countries they are
in. If the vote is mostly “no” the referendum itself will bring the
international companies shady practices into the public consciousness leading
to a decrease in their profits if they don’t comply with our countries tax
policies.
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Ok listen here because I need to tell you something! There is
a secret presence in our world that has gone undetected for far too long
that’s right I’m talking about psychotic radioactive teleporting boars!
Now I know what you’re thinking, you think they don’t exist.
But that’s just the crooked partisan establishment lie that you’ve been fed
for years I will prove to you that these are real and they are dangerous and
they are coming for you
march
2012 a boar in Latvia seemingly tries to hijack a car
December
2012 2 miles from Spain a boar is found swimming in the middle of the ocean,
how did it get there? We don’t know. They couldn’t have swum there, while
boars can travel at 30 miles an hour they only have a maintainable distance
of one mile meaning they can travel more than that without topping which is
impossible to do in the ocean
July
2013 a boar charges round Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic
assaulting multiple people
November
2014 a boar goes into a shop in Germany and destroys the interior
March
2015 a boar attacks a couple hiking in France
May
2015 a boar bursts through the ceiling of shopping mall in Hong Cong
October
2015 a boar again is found in the ocean this time four miles off the coast of
Italy. How the hell did it get there!
November
2015 a wild boar Is found in the ocean once more swims to Istanbul and then
decides to attack people
July
2016 a boar demolishes a popular restaurant in south Korea
I’m
not even done!
In
the same month a boar swims to the shore of Poland and begins to fight every
human in their way
November
2016 a boar is found just walking through a busy tunnel in china, why!!?
Still
not done
January
2017 seven wild boars are found swimming together in the black sea
May
2017 Leigh turner ambassador of the UK for Austria is ambushed by a boar in
the rain; Leigh manages to escape by climbing a tree like a coward instead of
fighting the boar like a proper hubristic man.
November
2017 a boar kills an elderly man in china few days later a boar kills another
man this one in India. Was it the same boar, a serial killer boar?
All of these cases involve boar seemingly appearing out of
nowhere, but here’s the important part. All of these places reside around
Chernobyl and fukushima. Both of which emit large amounts of radiation after
their meltdowns. And Stephen Hawking has conclusively disordered that black
holes emit radiation as well and theorises that they could have wormhole like
properties.
So here’s the truth, these boars are being teleported across
Europe and Asia and the government are hiding it, they want to hoard this
power for themselves, but I know the truth and now you do too. Stay woke
truthers.
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07/12/17
Vocally, I
believe that this was my best performance yet. I kept my volume consistent
throughout the entire show, which was a problem I had doing in the rehearsals
before the first showing. I also managed to make a clear distinction between
the inspector character and the staff 1 character by using my articulation and
stressing certain consonants to my advantage. I also believe the delivery of
some of my lines were much better suited to my character than the first
showing. In the first one i portrayed the inspector character as getting angry
and frustrated with the ringleader in the fifth and sixth scene of act 2,
whereas in the second one I portrayed the character as being more calm but
still maintaining the same level of control. This works well as in the first
showing of the play it sometimes felt like a shouting match between the
ringleader and I, whereas in the second showing the contrast between the characters
works well because even though the ringleader is more aggressive in speech than
the inspector, they still end up being usurped by the inspector.
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