This August, join us for Vocal Efforts for Video Games – Accents and Dialects with D'Arcy Smith
Accents provide a quick way to differential your characters and can set you apart in your auditions.
We will cover techniques to approaching any accent or dialect in a physical and organic way, helping you to integrate it into the characters you create. Aspects of the accent’s placement, vocal quality, intonation patterns, rhythm, and key pronunciation changes will be covered. Participants will record themselves before the workshop and receive individual feedback and how to practice after the workshop.
Dialects will include Standard British (RP), Mid Atlantic, and US Southern. These accents are great for a variety of video games, fantasy games, and anime!
About D'Arcy
D'Arcy Smith is a Professor of Voice, Speech and Dialects at The University of Cincinnati. He was a resident voice, text and dialect coach at the Guthrie Theater and has worked as a teacher and voice/dialect coach in the United States, U.K., Canada and New Zealand. He brings over 20 years of experience as a professional actor, coach and teacher of performers, working on well over a 100 productions and worked with Riot Games and Ubisoft. He has trained extensively in a variety of voice techniques to help serve every level and voice type. He has researched and developed Vocal Combat Technique, which trains actors to go to vocal extremes in the healthiest way possible. He has used his Vocal Combat Technique in numerous professional productions and alongside fight coaches. He has created and tested Vocal Combat Technique specifically for the video game actor.
TIME & LOCATION
Thursday, August 19th, from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PT!!
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