Lesson 4 - Voice Acting - Party Quirks I
STANDARD
TH: Cr 3.1.7b. Refine effective physical, vocal, and physiological traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/ theatre work.
OBJECTIVE
Students will demonstrate their ability to use voice projection, articulation, and inflection in character work by creating a quirk character and completing tasks in quirk parties.
MATERIALS
WARM UP
- Toffee Candies - invite the students to imagine eating a toffee. Ask them to explore the possible movements with their mouths and tongues to warm up their articulators: Up and down, side to side, chin out/chin in, toffee got stuck, a huge toffee piece that dissolves to a tiny piece, other areas of the mouth, etc.
- Review the variations of inflection by saying “ok let’s do this”. Variations include: upward inflection, downward inflection, circumflex (emphasis on a word), and sustained.
GUIDED PRACTICE - PARTY QUIRKS
- INSTRUCTION - We’re putting all of the skills for an effective voice use into one exercise today. The skills include projection, articulation, and inflection. We’re going to use these skills to help us build characters.
- Explain how party quirks works: For each party, there is a host. Each guest enters the party one at a time to introduce themselves to the host. The guests must stay true to their quirky character by saything what the character may say and how they may say it. Use skills like voice projection, articulation, and inflection. The host will guess the characters.
- Do a quick demonstration. Teacher be the host and invite a few students to come up with quirky characters.
- Emphasize that the goal is to be heard, though character’s personalities may affect your choice to project, make sure you are heard.
- Highlight that the focus of this activity is practicing how to use their voice effectively with characterization.
- There will be four parties, the students choose at least 2 to attend. The parties are: Disney Villains’ Association Welcome Party, Tony Awards After Party, Tik Tok Tea Party, NASA’s Rocket Launch Party.
- INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE - Show the class the party quirks profile worksheet.
- They can choose to be a celebrity/a character from a movie/book.
- They only need to plan for two parties of their choice.
- They should keep track of the characters they guess on the worksheet.
- This is Part I of the activity and the goal is to guess each other’s quirk character using hints from the vocal choices.
- Complete the self-evaluation at the end of class and turn in the Party Quirks Part I worksheet.