{"id":445,"date":"2009-11-07T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T09:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2009-11-07T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T09:20:54","slug":"the-brave-and-the-bold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/the-brave-and-the-bold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brave and the Bold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2009\/11\/06\/earpiece-pleasure\/\">Yesterday<\/a> I commented on lighter, higher voices having an advantage because they traveled further.  This morning is a &#8216;brain off&#8217; morning and I&#8217;m sitting, vegged out, in front of the TV.  Which is fine, &#8216;cos it&#8217;s showing &#8220;BATMAN; the brave and the bold&#8221;.  (Cultured? Me?)<\/p>\n<p>Batman, of course, is calm, powerful and brooding.  Well, as much as a cartoon can be, and one of the main ways they do this by doing using an appropriate voice. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diedrich_Bader\">Diedrich Bader<\/a> has just the right amount of &#8216;weight&#8217; behind it to give Batman the credibility he needs (do you think I&#8217;m taking a kids&#8217; cartoon too seriously?).<\/p>\n<p>So, to go with the tips for helping get a lower voice to carry further yesterday, here are a couple of tips for people with higher pitched voices to get more &#8217;emotional weight&#8217; to what they say&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drop your shoulders, relax the muscles of your bottom and waggle your jaw before you start to speak; sigh; stand still for a few seconds<\/li>\n<li>Hum for a second (at whatever pitch your voice naturally starts at) and then let your voice drop ever so slightly (not too much!); continue to hum at the lower pitch for as long as you comfortably can on one breath<\/li>\n<li>visualise your voice coming not out of you mouth but out of your navel<\/li>\n<li>swing your arms a little to loosen up your chest and allow resonance to develop there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, so on their own these things aren&#8217;t going to change your voice over-night (they&#8217;re only tips, not training! :) ) but they&#8217;ll certainly help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I commented on lighter, higher voices having an advantage because they traveled further. This morning is a &#8216;brain off&#8217; morning and I&#8217;m sitting, vegged out, in front of the TV. Which is fine, &#8216;cos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bttradspace-blog-competition","category-presentation-tips","category-voice-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}