better delivery

[blissful cloak]

hello, i'm improving at singing but my delivery/acting still needs work
i tried these incantations from tangled, but i don't think i did a good job
the healing incantation should be sad but gentle and sweet, while the harming incantation should be cold and hard.

[quartz lava]

hold up lemme type

alrighty so your pretty good but there’s one CRUCIAL piece youre missing. emotion. when i was watching these i felt no emotion from you. your delivery should ALWAYS contain emotion, and i wasn’t getting any. it caused the performance to feel bland and overly simple. i study meisner, and with the meisner method, the key points are to connect your own experiences and. emotions to the text. i love the way. you described each piece but you need to put those emotions into the scene and make them true to yourself. also it seemed like you were a bit too focused on enunciation. where yes, enunciation is so so important in theatre, i felt as though you overly dragged out syllables(if you need examples ill provide). the words should be properly enunciated, yet still fluid. otherwise you really have talent!! you have so so much potential i felt it brimming from the screen, just channel it and really hone in. you got this!! ofc this is just my opinion but if you ever want any help feel free to reach out!!

[blissful cloak]

thanks for the feedback! yeah i was really struggling with that because i feel like i was trying to add emotion but it wasn't working... maybe i need to think of what a character might feel?

i mean it's also interesting, because i like how this voice actress does it, but what is her "need," she's possessed, it feels very subtle and complicated
https://youtu.be/_jZ6LTmyW6U
https://youtu.be/T7dCyLFYm9w

i forgot i should think of need/objective, person i'm communicating too, and obstacle

i haven't even watched the tv show lol, but the movie really got to me with the realistic toxic family dynamic

[quartz lava]

i could tell. hmmm, i personally disagree with trying to put on what the character might feel due to my own training. allow me to explain

when someone attempts to ‘put on’ what the character may feel, they lose the authenticity of emotion and performance. try channeling the feeling you felt in a memory of a time you had heard miraculous news of someone being healed.thnk of the tender warmth felt inside of that and think of the way you felt. take that emotion and place it into the text, connecting yourself to the character and the scene/song. by doing so you’re. providing authentic emotion and giving the audience truth in your performance making it so much better. that’s how ive been taught anyways

[quartz lava]

i gotcha

[blissful cloak]

but what about the second one? it's not... sadistic... exactly, more careless maybe? but the absence of something is hard to show. i did lift my head to signal aloofness, but maybe i should feel aloofness instead

[quartz lava]

one sec

[blissful cloak]

wow, um assuming much, how do you know i'm not in a tower with my evil adoptive mother right now?? jk ofc lol

yeah i get what you mean!

i think i could use help figuring out how to feel and express such subtle emotions is more what i'm struggling with

it's getting late so i think i should try tomorrow, but i definitely want to really try to feel those emotions

maybe i could imagine someone i care about is hurt, but i'm nervous for the first one

i really like these minimalistic songs with optional soundtrack accompaniment rather than set instrumental parts, they're really great for trying things out
i wanted to try this after i've gotten the hang of these, but pronouncing the irish phonetically might be a little hard https://youtu.be/xFhd8RfCqVg

[quartz lava]

yessssssss sorry i was singing. ahhh

[blissful cloak]

i think i"m going to be able to do it tomorrow, but i'm getting the sense that i'm actively reshaping my mouth i didn't consider before (like maybe the soft palate or tongue?) to adapt to different pitches or vowels, do you hear that at all?

[quartz lava]

hmmm not quite sure i read this one right but if i am keep your tongue flat otherwise we’ll hear active lapsing of saliva from your tongue

[limber totem]

Choose the right song for your voice type. This will solve many issues.

[blissful cloak]

i will get to it later

this is the last week of classes btw so final
papers are due very soon, the only reason i haven't already retried the acting

i think this is a somewhat better balance