Vocal Techniques and Movement

Which of the following is not one of the three things an actor must do vocally during a performance to hold his audiences's listening interest:

• Project

• Shout

• Enunciate

• Vary the inflection

Good projection is simply yelling your lines as loud as you can.

• True
• False

Define: Diaphragm

• How fast or slow you speak your words
• Located in your throat for pitch sounds
• The muscle in your chest which supports your breathing
• The degree of highness or lowness of your tone

The voice element that makes one person sound different from everyone else

• Quality

• Inflection

• Volume

• Rate

The musical tone of a voice

• Rate

• Pitch

• Inflection

• Projection

The rising and falling of pitch that adds meaning, color, and rhythm to spoken words (prevents you from sounding monotone)

• Tone

• Quality

• Articulation

• inflection

The process of varying inflections in the voice throughout a performance.

• Flexibility

• Quality

• Projection

• Dialogue

the effective control of all voice elements and body movements

• Diction

• Dialect

• Poise

• Rate

The shaping and molding of sounds into syllables

• articulation

• accent

• projection

• volume

the way sounds or syllables that represent a word are said and stressed according to the proper notation found in the dictionary

• articulation

• pronunciation

• inflection

• variety