Today is day five of my voice archetype challenge — where I build character voices in real time and talk through the process as I go.
This one is about being real. It’s less about “doing a voice” and more about creating a voice that allows acting to happen.
A lot of character voices start out big, rough, or a bit… bad. But that roughness isn’t failure. It’s what I think of as the “broad brushstrokes” stage of creating a new voice.
In this video, I play around with
* A simple trick I use to quickly access emotional truth in self tapes
* Starting with a familiar accent
* Why new voices can sound exaggerated or rough
* The difference between delivering lines and living them
* How your eyes give away whether a script is really “in your body”
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00:00 Day five & the voice challenge
01:10 What “being real” actually means in acting
01:55 Why new voices sound rough at first
02:40 The Painting Analogy
04:30 Talking around the text to find truth
05:20 Moving from delivery to living the lines
06:10 Playing the scene: full takes
08:05 What worked, what didn’t
This is part of a 21-day character voice challenge I’m doing alongside the Puro Casting Archetypes Challenge (https://www.purocasting.com/the-acting-habit/the-21-day-self-tape-challenge)
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