Any tips on projecting your voice?

Question

I am a quiet person, and I am going to be in this play. The problem is I go as loud as I think is on the verge of yelling, Yet the director keeps telling me to go louder and louder. I don't want to up with larangitis by the time the play starts. ugh any tips? rehearsal start soon. thanks

Answer 1

Get your breath from your stomach, not your throat. I'll see if I can accurately describe these exercises over the net -

Get in an open space and yell, "Hey!" - Let your breath precede the sound. And be sure to let your breath come from your stomach. You'll feel it when you're doing it right.

Here's another one - again, let the breath precede the sound. Do a long "oh", rising and then falling in volume and pitch. Like an ambulance siren - oooooOOOOOOOOOooooohhh... It helps too if you associate an action with it - for example, raise your hand up and lower it down along with the sound.

By letting the breath precede the sound, pretend that every starting vowel is preceded by an "H". So if you're actually saying "over there", breathe like you're saying "hover there." (Except don't actually make the "H" sound.)

Hope that made sense.

Answer 2

What works for one person may not work for another. I can tell you what worked for me, and it wasn't any of those general terms like "use your diaphram" or your shoulders shouldn't rise and fall", it was an exercise. Someone suggested it to one of my questions.

Sit in a chair so the back is to your left or right. Don't lean back too far because gravity'll getcha. Lift you feet off the floor a couple of inches. Notice how your stomach muscles are and what they feel like. Then start to sing or talk while thinking that you are reaching the other side of the room. Don't strain your voice at all, your diaphram will do all the work. Then sit normally and hold your diaphram, stomach muscles, the way they were when you were leaning back.

Good luck!

Answer 3

I have the same problem as you do. The trick to projecting is supporting your voice by breathing from your diaphragm, instead of your chest. Yelling in order to be louder is really bad for your throat-you'll get laryngitis in no time.

It's kind of hard to breathe from your diaphragm standing up at first, so my choir director taught us this trick: lie down on the floor with your knees bent to support your lower back. If you put your hands on your stomach and breathe so that your stomach poofs out and your hands move up and down, then you're breathing from your diaphragm. Then, when you are in rehearsal, breathe the same way, supporting your voice and letting the sound resonate in your chest.

If you're still confused about what diaphragm breathing is, it's the same kind of breathing you do when you are asleep or relaxed. You take bigger breaths and your chest doesn't move.

Answer 4

Have human beings advised you which you're able to be able to desire to undertaking greater? because of the fact in case you carry out often and are not getting adverse comments, then you extremely are in all probability advantageous. additionally in case you do no longer think of you are able to undertaking properly, you ought to connect a choir, because of the fact then you extremely do no longer ought to undertaking as lots, yet nevertheless be heard! Choir is impressive! stable luck!

Answer 5

practice, ask the other actors or actresses, and plenty of water