Acting secrets for a strong, dynamic voice

Speak with a great voice by doing these exercises that actors use. Speak with a strong, expressive voice by warming up and tuning your body like an instrument. How you express yourself physically is just as important as the words you use. In this video, I will teach you acting techniques to prepare your body and your voice for speaking. You need to learn to get into your body and really feel it, and these exercises will help you to do exactly that. When you really feel your body, you can use it to make energetic and charismatic sound. Some of these exercises might look a little weird to you... who cares? It feels good, and it works -- that's what's important. We will be going through warm up exercises and voice preparation drills to get you ready to look and sound your best. Whether you have a presentation coming up, you want to improve your sales, or you simply want to improve your conversational skills, this video is for you.

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1. MOUTH EXERCISES FOR CLEAR SPEECH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp2VvmUJJc8

2. SPEAK AS CLEARLY AS AN ACTOR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQNMCgKvOk0

3. OVERCOMING SPEECH/PRESENTATION ANXIETY:
https://youtu.be/S41yi0QUicI

QUIZ: https://www.engvid.com/acting-secrets-for-a-strong-dynamic-voice/

TRANSCRIPT

Enter from stage left. On the stage, that is the left. It's from the actor's point of view. That's my left, that is my right. This is downstage, because traditionally you would be going down the stage and that is upstage, so I just appeared from stage left. Benjamin, what are you talking about? Get to the point.

Hello. Welcome back to engVid. This is a lesson to help you get your voice from your body. That's right, your body is an instrument like a violin, so we need to get the body ready to produce sound, just as you would warm up to play an instrument. How do we do that? Well, I picked up a few tips from my time as an actor, I'm going to be sharing some of these with you now.

The main thing is you've got to be physical, you've got to be really in your body, you've got to be present to it, you've got to know how your body feels for good sound to come out. Okay. So, I'm just going to talk you through how I would get ready if I was about to go on stage. This isn't something you're going to do on a tube on an underground metro line, but if you're getting ready to do a presentation in a hotel, staying somewhere, and you've got some time to kill, then play around, do something like what I'm going to be doing now.

So, I'm going to be doing some yoga poses, so that's why I'm going to take my shoes and socks off. No, I'm not a yoga teacher, although I have taught children yoga before, which was a good chat-up line when I met my wife; she thought that was good. So, okay. So I'm just going to start by just going, jump like that. Huh, huh. Ruh. Ahhh. Awh. Shaking out a bit, getting my arms around a bit. Ah. And I'm going to go straight into a famous method acting vocal warmup. So, this is about getting tension out of your body, and as I've just messed my mobile phone, I've got quite a lot of tension in me right now, so it should be good. Okay, so I'm sat down. Okay. And we're starting from the head down to the feet. Okay? So, what you're doing is you're making circular movements. You have to close your eyes. And where you feel a little bit tense, you release the tension with a: "Hah!" Okay? So I'm... Just watch, and we'll talk about it in a sec. Ahhhhhh. Hah. Hah. Hah. Ahhhhhh. What I'm trying to do is... You're just feeling where you want to move, so you can roll your head, you can roll your shoulders, you can roll your middle, your groin, you can roll your legs, you can stretch out here, you can stamp, you can really get into your body. Ahhhh. Hah. Hah. Hah. Ahhhhh. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh... Hah. Hah. Hah. Ahhhhhhhh. Hah. Hah. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Hah. Ahhhhhhhh. Hah. Now, I'm not going to, sort of, be totally self-indulgent. You should do this for about 20 minutes. People do it from 20 minutes anyway up to an hour, and you will feel your voice change after you do the exercise for longer and longer. I'd love to carry on doing it now, but you might just sit there, going: "Uh, Benjamin, you okay?" Okay? So that is an exercise to do over a space of time. Shut the door, turn your phone off, or just smash it like me, and you won't be interrupted. Okay.

Next we're going to do a bit of yoga, so don't know if you know a sun salutation, hello to the sun. Okay? You probably do. You can probably do it better than me. Hands together like this, like they're in prayer, okay? And then we're going to go up, and then down. Okay? So... Probably doing in totally the wrong order, but there we are. And now we're sort of going down, we're going up, and then we're going to Downward Dog. My 18-month old baby can do this, so you can, too. That foot up, that foot up. Ah. Wah. Ah. So you do it on the right, now you do it on the left. So, one set is when you go with your right and then your left. […]

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