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Use Your Voice: Creating New Characters Through Voice Acting

The voice is a powerful tool to use as an actor. Whether singing or acting it's important to use it properly. Together we'll explore how to create characters, read commercials, and speak in a healthy way.
MiKayla Phillips
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:
(42)
Class

What's included

1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hours per week
Homework
1 hour per week. No external preparation is prepared between weeks, but I do encourage going over vocal exercises from previous weeks.

Class Experience

Each week this course will dive into the fine art of voice acting. Here we will discover the different parts of the voice and how each can be used to execute a new sound and new voice! From funny, to serious, to a tutorial robot, each students will have the chance to read and create characters! Creating is only half of the class. It is just as important to know how to use your instrument. We will go over vocal exercises and warm ups before we begin the readings. Different exercises can be used different weeks depending on what we are covering that week. This class can be fun for any age but the student does need to know how to read. Varying material will be provided to make sure students are given appropriate pieces.

Lessons coming up:
Character breakdowns: There are so many distinct characters we can find in every show we watch. As we start to pay attention certain "tropes" are found as a common thread throughout. We'll go through tips on how to create voices for common characters scene in the voice acting world that will bring them to life.
Reads: Often times as a voice actor you are given a script, it is important to know how to interpret and read it appropriately. Commercials are a steady part of the trade. Did you know there are different types of commercials? Each with their own approach and delivery. Together we'll use different classes to walk through the types of commercials and how to properly bring them to life. Open scenes, narration, character reads and so many more can be handed out in a script. We'll be sure to go into detail on how to approach any written word
Accents: May be split into multiple classes. Using specific words we'll practice finding traditional American and Abroad Accents including, Boston, Southern, New York, California, Midwestern, English, Irish and Transylvanian. We will then create characters based on those accents to collect for our repertoire of characters.
Learning Goals
The student should leave each class with a vocal warm up appropriate for the part of the voice being used in the reading. They will also leave with material to read. With this material they will also have the knowledge of how to create a voice acting character.
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External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
We will be reading anything from monologues to commercials examples of which can be found in the link below. https://www.nextauditions.com/audition-scripts.html https://www.dramanotebook.com/monologues-kids/ https://www.wlwv.k12.or.us/cms/lib/OR01001812/Centricity/Domain/1290/OPEN%20SCENES-Vocal%20Interp.pdf https://rugrats.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rugrats_Movie/Transcript http://dialectblog.com/northamerican-accents/ https://worthstart.com/superhero-slogans/ https://www.voiceactorwebsites.com/category/voice-over-scripts/commercial/kids/
Joined October, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree in Theatre Arts from Rollins College
Bachelor's Degree in Music from Rollins College’s
I graduated from Rollins college with a degree in liberal arts. There I majored in music and theater with a concentration in performing. Here I learned vocal anatomy, vocal use and voice acting techniques.
Since graduating I have collected eight years of teaching experience. This has ranged from individual lessons to large classes. The subjects I have covered include music theory acting and singing performance divisive theater instrument techniques and so much more. 

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$15

weekly
1x per week
45 min

Completed by 202 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 8-13
3-6 learners per class

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