Acting Skills: Voice Warm Ups

SIRENING & BREATHING: Sirening and breathing are very useful voice warm ups to do before acting. It prepares your windpipes for a series of hard work and determination before beginning to act out your scene. Sirening helps you to explore different pitches and notes your voice can hit. For the character you play, their voice may be completely different to yours which requires you to use a different vocal tone that is opposite to your own voice. Using the method of sirening where you imitate the noise of a police car's siren helps you to try out various vocal tone ranges, improving your versatility and more.

Breathing is an excellent exercise to use because it helps to keep control of your breathing when performing. One breathing exercise you could do is breathe in whilst dropping your lower body to the ground making your hands touch your feet then breathing out whilst rising back up again. To make this exercise more advanced, you'd leave 10 counts for you to breathe in whilst touching your feet and then another 10 counts for you to rise back up again. This helps to make you feel more relaxed and ready to act. Also, breathing can help to let out any sort of stress or negativity you may be keeping within your body. It's important to leave all outside affairs away from your acting time as it could create a big distraction for yourself.

"THE TIP OF THE TONGUE THE TEETH AND THE LIPS". "PETER PIPER PICKED A PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS. A PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS PETER PIPER PICKED".

Tongue twisters like those I have listed above are very useful for trying to improve your articulation. It helps you to try differentiate similar vowel sounds and use them correctly within different sentences. Tongue twisters are a great exercise to do for preparing to act out a scene as it helps to make sure you speak properly and clearly when acting. If you have poor articulation when acting, your audience are unlikely to pay an interest in what your saying. Having a clear voice and impressive articulation, you are more than likely to draw in your audience and make them pay attention to you.