Chapter Five
Performance Development
5.1 Introduction
In the previous chapter, we began to focus on how to develop your voice. Right at the start, we acknowledged that is appropriate to have two voices, your personal voice that you use with your friends and your professional voice that you use in performance situations. We don’t care how bad your personal voice is as long as you can switch a good professional voice. (View Linda Thomas’s comments on this subject in her clip # 15.)
Having a pleasant speaking voice is the first step in being a professional performer. In this chapter, the plan is to take that good speaking voice and learn how to use it to develop a delivery style that is appropriate for a variety of media performance situations. ...
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