Humorous Interpretation: Voice Character Development

Video Transcript

"O.K. as we're developing our characters, the first think we have to take a look at are their voices. And we have to establish different voices for our different characters. Now we're working with a minimum of two characters but you can have a maximum of sixteen, twenty characters. This particular piece that I'm working with today the Chicago I used sixteen different characters. So you have to come up with the voices. Now you're first probably thinking of accents, like maybe one of them probably has some kind of New York accent, that's great, but it doesn't necessarily have to be completely different dialects. It can also be in relation to volume. Maybe one of your characters talks really loud or maybe one of them talks really soft. Or maybe they have a low deep voice, or maybe they have a really high pitched voice. Or maybe they have a really deep voice, or maybe they have a really high pitched voice. Or maybe they talk really fast or maybe they talk real slow. But you want to come up with different voice characteristics for each of your characters and it's real important that whatever you come up with, you maintain it. Then if you choose a high pitched voice that you are able to maintain it. And every choice you make with regards to the voice, we still have to understand it. It still has to be articulated. So we've got our voices selected, now let's move on and talk about what we are going to do with our body."