Voice projection

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to a new entry! 🤩

Last classes have been a blast! At the same time, I have learned a lot of new things regarding voice, intention, articulation and resonance.

Teachers need to be skillful when it comes to presenting in front of a class, since sometimes classes are very large groups and we have to rely only on our voices as a teaching aid. Teacher’s voice has to be clear, well articulated, and resonant. We have been practicing with many voice exercises so that we can improve. 

Teacher Orlando presented  to us, a video of a voice trainer, in which he explained that we can modulate our voices to sound either more or less nasal, more profound, we can vibrate higher or lower and get a more appealing voice. I think practice makes perfect, and just as Nidia said, there is not a thing such an “ugly voice”, it’s just a matter of training it, or as she said “educating” our voices.

Another good practice is to mimic people’s voice. Whenever we listen to radio ads, any speech or a well trained voice, we can mimic them until we get used to using certain parts of our vocal apparatus. 

Teacher Orlando showed us some videos in which actors, actresses and singers, master their voices and are capable or reaching high notes and can perfectly mock other people. That is the case of Patricia in “Betty la Fea” soap opera, and the singer Yma Sumac. Both of them have incredible voice skills. Yma can even imitate animal sounds perfectly. Then, teacher Orlando had us mimicking a child’s voice, a teacher’s an a boy/girl’s voice, it was funny and challenging.

 We had Nadia’s advice on how to better project our voice. She’s a radio host and shares her experiences as well as her knowledge on the topic. It was pretty interesting to see her performing on an advertisement. We also learned about  the intentions. Institucional voice, comercial and natural voice, which to my surprise,  is the most difficult one. We recited a poem and Nidia and teacher Orlando walked around listening to us giving some helpful feedback.

Then we exercised putting  a pen between our teeth to improve articulation, at the same time we were moving a lot to control our breath, and  to make things even harder, we were stepping away from our peers, who were trying to listen to us.

Lastly, here is a video of Josh saying “La que puede puede, la que no critica” with a flawless comercial voice. 😂😂

Thank you for reading today’s entry, stay tuned. 😁