Acting Skills

We have used a number of techniques to develop our skills in theatre...

Voice warm ups

Tongue twisters-  tongue twisters help to exercise your mouth. They also improve your pronunciation, because in order to say them correctly, you have to make each word really clear. This is a helpful exercise because when you are performing it is really important that you pronunciate your words so that it is clear to the audience what you are saying. Some of the tongue twisters we have used are...
-she sells sea shells on the sea shore.
-peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, a peck of pickled peppers peter piper picked.
-the tip of the tongue, the teeth and the lips.

Breathing- we did  exercises where we concentrated on our breathing whilst combining it physical movements. This was helpful for me as it connected my physical movement on stage to my breathing patterns.

We also lay down and imagined we had a feather resting on our lips. We took a deep breath to let our ribs expand, then blew out, trying to keep the imaginary feather up in the air. This is also helpful to make you aware of your breath and it is important that you are, because when you are on stage you need to know where to breath when your are saying your lines.

Breathing exercises are very effective at the begging of rehearsals as they help you get into neutral, and then you can then easily get into your character from your neutral state.