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Accents & Voice Impressions - From Beginner to Pro
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1 hours 12 minutes 
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About Accents & Voice Impressions - From Beginner to Pro
Introduction
Collecting Assets
The Art of Listening
The 5 Basics: Pitch
The 5 Basics: Accent
The 5 Basics: Rhythm
The 5 Basics: Body Language
The 5 Basics: Defects
Exercise 1: Dissecting the voice
Exercise 2: Facial expressions
Advanced 1: Mouth Shape
Mixing targeted and untargeted practise
Practise with and without visuals
The Top up
Spaced repetition & 'The Marination'
Following the clues
Impersonation vs Impression
Talent vs 'Circumstantial' advantages
Muscle memory and actionable sub skills
Working out your range
Choosing starter words and phrases
Hardware beginner
Hardware intermediate
Branching out
Looking back with a critical eye
Finding the Impression hook
Advanced 2: Adding the laugh
Advanced 3: Going conversational
Technique 1: The jump
Technique 2: The trigger
Technique 3: Layering up an impression
Technique 4: Voice first, character after
Advanced 4: Drawing on emotion
Mastering the base
Pitfall 1: The changing voice
Pitfall 2: Presenting too early
Deep dive: David Attenborough
Deep dive: Gandalf
Deep dive: Morgan Freeman
Conclusion
What You Will Learn?
- Do you always find yourself trying new accents and impressions? Or just enjoy impressions and wondered how people get started? Then this may be the class for you! I’m here to help you along the way and formalise the process a bit so you can take it to the next level!.
- Who am I?.
- I’m Charlie, nice to meet you! An Impressionist, voice actor and standup comedian with over 390,000 subscribers over on youtube. Handily, I am also a fully qualified maths teacher with 2 years of experience in the classroom. So I know how to break quite complex skills down into manageable chunks..
- In this class you will learn:.
- You’ll be working on an impression of your choice as the class project and at the end you’ll have the opportunity to upload it for some tips on improvement. I look forward to seeing you in the project space!.