DEVELOPING YOUR VOICE: SKILLS IN VOCAL IMPROVEMENT |
DescriptionThe lawyer who tries a case in a courtroom has similar demands placed on the voice that the actor in the theatre faces. Both must have a voice that can be heard. Both must have a voice that can last for hours at a time for days and weeks on end. Both must have a voice that is placed in the body in such a way that the voice is both pleasing to the listener and won't wear out. Both must be able to enunciate clearly so that jurors and audience alike can understand what is being said. Both must find the true voice with which to communicate, rather than an habitual voice which they have used through most of their lives in public situations. Also, the actor and the attorney must be relaxed when working on their feet -- neither should be complacent about the task, but in order to get the butterflies to straighten up and fly into formation with someone either in the courtroom or onto the stage takes a kind of centered relaxation that is needed by both. How many attorneys would like to begin a trial as relaxed as they are in the middle of the third day? The attorney, like the actor, can achieve all this through doing vocal warm up/physical relaxation series of exercises. The viewer learns individual parts of the exercises series from observing and participating along with a model. Then the viewer follows a full warm up with the workshop group participants. This tape can be used as a daily regimen if the attorney desires to make vocal changes and/or changes in stage fright. |
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