VOICE EXERCISES for ACTORS (2)

[@kristinakozlova980]

Mr. John! I discovered your channel yesterday, cannot be happier about that. I do strive to master my Brit accent anytime i have a chance. Your gesticulation makes me feel like i'm in a real lesson with you, that is so effective. Thanks a lot!!!🤩

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Just remember that people actually like accents nowadays, and what matters is that we speak clearly and with some note of kindness in our voice. Even for actors, that's better than trying to make an accent perfect.

[@kristinakozlova980]

@@NewYorkActingCoach Cannot agree more! Some note of kindness is highly recommended, with or without a perfect accent😊

[@fire5268]

Hello to the wonderful channel ❤

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Very kind. Thanks. J.

[@pieterstroobach]

Thank you very much, will add it to my daily routine.

[@JS-fm9hm]

Hello John! Lovely to see you again and thank you for such wonderful and vital instruction.

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Thanks. Yes 20 more years of this and maybe LEAR to do still, so need to stay active! Same as any actor. John.

[@clemdane]

@@NewYorkActingCoach Who is your favorite Lear that you've seen?

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

@@clemdane I've seen 8 Lears, including Ingmar Bergman's production, and been in one, and in most cases the director was a bully ( I won't say who), and the actors thought they just had to look important. The play takes MONTHS of study, and a director who has done the play before. Ego, ego, ego everywhere. No damned intelligence. All smoke. John.

[@clemdane]

@@NewYorkActingCoach Damn, how disappointing. I am no expert, but I was blown away by Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company production with Richard Briers as Lear in 1990. I always expect people to laugh when I say Richard Briers as Lear, but he was astounding. He actually made me cry so much at the end that I was embarrassed leaving the theatre. A few years later when I saw Robert Stephens at RSC I was quite disappointed, yet everyone around me was cheering. I felt nothing.

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

@@clemdane ANd how great that you saw a perfrmance that meant something particularly to you, and may have been on a particulaly good night for the actor. We all love different qualities and ideas, so it's impossible to say that 'this' one was best for everyone, and it's the reason I never criticise actors. I guess I'd like to have ago at LEAR myself and that I just see him in my own way..

[@GameofKitties]

Ohhh! Finally i can start to voice exercises. These exercises are very useful and handy, thank you so much ❤

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

You're welcome, and there will be one more next week, but if voice exercise is what you mostly want then try to practice often, perhaps finding some text that you like from a news article, or song lyric or poem. If you know the latest BBC world news, or sing all the songs you like or can share poetry sometimes, that may give you an extra reason to keep doing it. Best anyway, John

[@TheRealLeFoster]

Happy 2024

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Same back to you. Thanks. John.

[@devilmansanchez]

I'm not even an actor but I like these exercises.

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

How nice of you to say that. And it's a shame that lots of other people don't give their voice some exercise: politicians, priests, mothers, fathers, teachers, directors, doctors, policemen and others are all easier to enjoy if they speak clearly. Simple 'kindness' can easily be noticed in some people's voices! J.

[@رضاقاسمیان-ش9س]

Tanks sir it is very helpful and the advice at the end was great

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Thanks, and I think we're both right - to aim at finding interesting scripts. Any actors I coach who really 'move along' have already got two or three parts which 'suit' them which they're bursting to play. John

[@give__take__]

😂 This made my day. Lovely

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Thanks. Another one coming up soon. I know voice exercises can seem a bore, but they have 'saved' the voices of some actors for years, and such a relief that - 'whatever' our performance may be like - audiences can at least hear us! So best wishes, John.

[@ivankursacts]

Thank you for your efforts! It is really helpful and interesting information, especially for non-natives)

[@Gamingcareer-m3e]

May Allah give you long life I love you sir😢😊

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

THANK YOU ! Yes, I plan to live unil 100 as I have so much work to do still. Best back to you. John.

[@urbanapache2]

Very handy.

[@ivankursacts]

Doing these exercises was quite funny for me) But it's useful for pronounciation)

[@TarekMannai.officiel]

Thank you sir for sharing with us all of your advices! Some times i dont like my voice when im acting, i have two types of voices, the one sounds a bit older heavier and great especially for voice overs. the second one is younger and i think it sounds not charismatic. So when i act relaxed i always lose the first voice type that i like the most. Even in real life i dont always speak with one type.. so the problem is sometimes when i act and i here my voice i feel like its not suitable for my face and for the character and i start to lose control of my emotions.. and going back to the real me.. i didnt get any comment for my voice from any director and i dont know if im true or wrong about it and im just feeling like that because im just inspired by actors who speak with a heavier tone. ( sorry for my bad english )

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Well it's good that you see your problem, which many others have and don't realize ! The answer, of course is that more EXPERIENCE will help you feel more comfortable i the way that you speak, probably using part of both the 'two' which you describe. If the enjoyment you have with one tone is genuine, and not admiring some tone which you've liked hearing from other people. then that is where 'truth' may lie. But just do more. Plays, films, anything at all. Dont waste time now you seem to have found your problem. John

[@TarekMannai.officiel]

@@NewYorkActingCoach thank you for your reply

[@Aurora-qn2dx]

So lovely to see you again! This very important. Where can one audition for a part or send a monologue to?

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Getting auditions is easy. It depends where you are. In New York where you can do workshops with actual agents and casting directors (which you need to prepare for by working very hard on a scene or monologue that SUITS you) and you need to do something SIMPLE not lines that would need an experienced star! Just go online, or use Backstage.com. I wrote to 100 theatres in the USA when I first moved here, and only got replies frm10, but 5 jobs! John. It is hard work. JOhn

[@itachi5863]

I wish u were my grandpa!

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Well as long as you're not 40 years old I guess it's OK. Do I have to include you in my will, because this sounds like a scam to me. John.

[@pedrosaulmx]

~ 🤭👍

[@stevebarney6735]

4:35 God bless you for not pronouncing the "t" in "often".

[@derrick_smitty]

Pronouncing the T in the word often is an acceptable pronunciation per Merrian Webster.