CHARACTER VOICES. (homework for beginner Ventriloquist)

 your homework lesson in voice animation is to listen to Walt Disney movies, listen only, not to watch. Walt Disney characters are full of life by watching the movie and by listening. In this lesson I would like for you to learn how to create your little helper or puppet voice as if it was a real person. This is called a voice actor or voice over jobs, yes you can also have a career as a voice actor or a announcer or a radio personality. In this lesson you need to cover the screen so you do not see the action taking place, as you listen, you will get to recognize the characters by the voice, believe it or not you may have five different characters but in reality theirs only one person providing all five voices, this is called a voice actor. listen to the way some of the Walt Disney characters speak, listen if they speak very low, or maybe some of the characters may not sound very smart. Listen for speech pronunciations, some characters have trouble with vocabulary. after you have gathered enough notes on Walt Disney characters, practice some of the voice notes on your character such as, a Pinocchio high pitch voice or goofy the dog low pitch voice. I would like you to write down some words that you hear the Walt Disney characters say and repeat them with your Ventriloquist character. have your character say "I want to be a real boy" the exact same way Pinocchio says it. This lesson will teach you how to animate your character or puppet voice, what is animation? animation means life like or to move like something real, to bring something to life, to make an object seem to move. voice animation is very important for a Ventriloquist it helps the illusion of life in the art of Ventriloquism. I also suggest that you listen to the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy show on audio. Edgar Bergen is a master at voice animation, he was on the radio for twenty years and people listen to the show believe they were hearing two different people and that is your goal as a beginner Ventriloquist. I would like for you to listen to Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy show to study the conversation, how Charlie McCarthy responded to Edgar Bergen, how Edgar Bergen treated Charlie McCarthy in the conversation that you listen, write what you heard down, next take the notes from what you have gathered from Walt Disney character voices.. here's the lesson: practice with your little helper or Ventriloquist figure. 1.your character voice speak a line from a Walt Disney movie.
2.your character voice sounds like a voice in a walt Disney movie. such as Mickey mouse or Donald duck,etc.
3. You the Ventriloquist will speak to your little helper or Ventriloquist figure in a similar way Edgar Bergen spoke to Charlie McCarthy and your character voice will respond like Charlie McCarthy did to Edgar Bergen but with the above 1. and 2... for an example... Ventriloquist: how was school today?..
character with Pinocchio voice: I don't want to go to school anymore! 
Ventriloquist: young man you need to go to school.
character with Pinocchio voice: I want to be a real boy!..
 this example has nothing to do with a Walt Disney movie, it shows you the Ventriloquist is the authority figure. 
in most cases the characters will get the funny lines or comedy lines and the Ventriloquist will get the serious lines or drama lines, so when the listener hear the voices they can recognize the characters in the play. as you take notes listening to Walt Disney movies you will learn how to develop a character voice. as you take notes while listen to the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy shows you will learn what a voice actor characters sound like, this means what carrying on a pretend conversation sound like...
the amazing thing about changing voices is even with your lips moving the audience can see who is talking,the audience has become familiar with the two voices on stage... make sure your voice is the opposite of your voice, if you personally have a low speaking voice give your character a high speaking voice.

have you studied enough on character voice and voice animation? 
have you practice enough on creating the illusion of carrying on pretend conversation with your little helper or Ventriloquist puppet?

TEST: record you and your character on a audio device, no video just audio.
1. in the audio can you recognize the two people apart? 
2. In the audio is the conversation that you are listening to TALKING or is it a conversation? what is TALKING? talking is "blah blah blah" just a bunch of words with no meaning.. can the audience understand the conversation that you are having with your character?
3. this audio should be from thirty seconds to one minute...next play the audio with your eyes closed... If it sounds to you as if you are listening to two different people such as Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, you are  given a grade "C" score... a "B" grade score would be someone else listen to your character voice animation audio...a A grade would be audio and video, you watching and listening to you and character in creating the illusion of life,it looks and sounds like two people carrying on a conversation.. next is A+ this is where you have another set of 👀 and👂 ears listening and watching you and your character, the A+ is not up to you but the set of eyes 👀 and 👂 ears, you are hoping that you receive a 👍 thumbs up which would be a A+ grade. It's a simple plus on to your grade "A"  just by asking someone to grade your practice time or ask please watch me in rehearsal, it's only 30 seconds of your time..if you do not receive the 👍 thumbs up from the the person and you really want the plus on your A grade score then practice more and rehearsal more, then you will automatically pass the plus into excellent, do you know why?.. because practice makes perfect 😁.

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