VOICE EXERCISE FOR ACTORS 3
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Another video from New York and Skype actors-coach John Windsor-Cunningham, here with the last of 3 voice exercises, linked to his coach at RADA and a little-known story of Laurence Olivier playing Othello! The 'sentence' which viewers may want is "You show your heart sir, as able in speech: oo, oh, aw, ah, er, a, Ai, i, Ee."
Thank you! Good to have you back Sir
So glad you’re still making videos, your channel is so great. I still think about advice from many of your videos when I start to read a script ❤
Thank you for your guidance. These videos are valuable to me.
Never stop posting, good sir, please! Thanks loads🙏🏻
Thanks. I have videos and work planned up to the age of 100 or more, when - with the added 'Freak' element of being old - they may even seem better, and I'm aiming they will be, but thanks for your post. John
You sir, are such an inspiration
Fantastic
Thanks, John! Great to see you!
Too busy to breath here, but 20 years of work planned ahead so I guess I'll have at least another ten. And best to you too, John
Thank you for these videos.
Really helpful
Just did this then! Thank you :)
Great. You could start learning OTHELLO then, right? John.
Always so well-timed. Thank you!
You're welcome. My voice isn't very perfect in it, but the idea of the exercise may still be of use, so - happy to help. John
Voices are just Stuck in my Head! Am I crazie...Crazy. Sir John Windsor-Cunningham you ´re, BRILLIANT! Still working on my British Accent. btw.
Thanks for kind words. No knighthood yet in fact, - possibly due to my living in the USA, - but you can be sure I'll announce it loudly when it finally comes. Best wishes back, John
Excellent! Thank you 😊
Thank you! Very helpful!
A great question, but I need a page to answer, and even then if I don't know 'you' then I can't tell how 'right' you sound about your opinions! Juilliard can be a bit classical some years, and RADA is trying to be more modern, but it CHANGES, so try to research them both MORE and get more information. My BIGGEST worry, and MAIN point, is that the whole idea of going to a school in a different country to where you're likely to end up working could be the main mistake, because all the contacts, friends and information you'll get from living there for 2 or 3 years won't be of any damned use! Book a session with me if you like, or meet recent students to both online. It's a massive decision. JOhn
You inspire me with your dedication to the art of acting
Kind of you to say. Easy for me as I've never been very interested in anything else - ! - and had help from good people. So if you can only find a company that you are desperate to work for (I pushed one young actor to take a job making coffee for a film company in LA 4 years back, - because she was mad about them - and now she helps editing, casting and now acting, - so she just found a path which made dedication easy. John
@@NewYorkActingCoach kind of you to reply good sir!
I find your methods to bring a practical combination of method and classical techniques and have learned a lot in terms of approaching material from your videos. I wonder if you have an opinion on Larry Moss’s book ‘Intent to Live’
@@gozepplinSorry, I've not read it and all I know is that reading ANYTHING, and trying ANYTHING may be a good idea, and that sitting around and being angry about not getting work is just daft. I don't myself read much of other people's approaches,, partly because I encourage people to actually be acing, to be doing it anywhere. So try it anyway, and if it works for you then fine. If you need to know more ask me in 6 months when I may have stumbled on a copy with time to read it. John
I'm currently working with a very difficult director who knows nothing about acting, this is for a musical. This director wants me to sit in a certain place which does not work at all and looks terrible. I'm asking them if I can sit where my character should be sitting and they keep saying no. The director is saying I should be front and center stage because I'm the main part but my plan was to sit at the back and reveal myself slowly to the audience by standing up and going to the bar to say my line, which looks 10x better and is what my character is supposed to do. The director is affecting my performance what should I do?
Not easy to give you full advice without seeing you doing the lines, but I have one answer for you, which worked for a very famous actor, so may for you. Your idea of keeping your 'power' in the background so that you can surprise the audience when you begin to show it feels right, feels comforting, feels clever, but is risky, BECAUSE the audience has no way of really knowing that you are going to end up being strong when you start. The audience may (wrongly) be disappointed by you keeping in the background, and not clever enough to see that it's a 'trick'. But by showing your power from the start you may amaze the audience from the start and be able to play a few lines more gently later on. And the fact that this may make the director feel 'right' is not your problem. You don't have to worry about the director, you're doing it because YOU can make it work.. JOhn
Would you recommend drinking alcohol before going on stage? Does it help at all? Have you ever done it yourself or do you not recommend it
Well I never normally make a negative remark, but - while it's good that you asked the question - it is an extremely bad idea. The idea that it might 'relax' you collapses because it may just as easily make you forget what you're doing! And actors need to have clever, smart, surprising ideas of how to play a part, which don't include the confusion of alcohol. The small number of actors who are famous for their 'drinking' are all probably pretending, and are definitely not going to be treated with respect. Sorry, but you asked. John
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