Character voices

[puppetise]

OK here is the story i went to leARN PUPETRY A COUPLOE OF YEARS AGO AND WE ONLY LIPSYNCED TO SONGS I NEVER LERNT CHARACTER VOICE DEVELOP MENT COULD YOU GUYS ENLIGHTEN ME I WOUL LOVE SOME INFO

 

[JoeyMuppet]

I'm sorry,I'm suortve doing the same kind of thing that you're doing with Lipsync.Do you know that when Frank Oz was around our age,by the way I'm 15 too,he was uncomfortable about doing his own puppet voices.Right now I would kind of call myself the modern day Frank Oz.

 

[Melonpool]

Bald at 15, eh?

 

[JoeyMuppet]

Ha Ha,not literally. What I meant by that is that,I'm not quite ready to start doing puppet voices, I was trying to tell puppetise,that right now I'm better at doing Lipsync.I'm proprablly closer to a modern day Jim Henson,than I'm a Frank Oz.Because not including that thing, I can do about the same range of voices as Jim could.Also recently I've have happened to be growing the same type of beard he had.

 

[puppetise]

ok well i can do great fozie grover piggy cookie voices but not my own hmm

 

[gfarkwort]

I think you should just play around with your vocal chords.....do some improv'd skits with your own voices....I dunno...maybe start out in a high pitched one and then see what your voice does when you start a new character.......and then remember how you acheived that voice, so you can do it again.......make sense?....this is what I do....and I have loads of voices......

oh and then try diffrent accents.....and/or diffrent pronunciations of words...

 

[puppetise]

thanks alot

 

[pjpiperhop]

Hi Puppetise,

Liz VonSeggen with One Way Street has a DVD and a CD on how to do different character voices. I have listened to the CD and picked up some good ideas on doing some voices.

 

[Phantom]

Try playing around with pitch, speed and intonation. Close your eyes and try to imagine what the character looks like and how they would sound. That helps alot.

I used to do a really good Conway Twitty voice because I would pretend I looked like Doug House...(nevermind)

Irony works here too. Think Mike Tyson. Big, burley, tattooed-face brute that sounds like he should be singing soprano in a boys choir. (Exaggerated but you get the gist.)

Don't forget going nasal or trying to do "accents". Yee Haw!

 

[wes]

Accents are Cool, another thing is lissen when people talk(espescailly when they have a funny voice) and try to copy them, then you will be able to use that voice in your puppetry. Ok here a example, story time folks:

When I was in High School I had to ride the Bus to and from school my sister rode with me everyday their Was the popular Girl who got of the bus and all the Younger kids loved her when it was her stop they would yell in a high Shreaking voice,"BYE SUZETT" and me and my sister would make pick and yell to in a high nasal voice ,"BYE SUZETT,WE LOVE YOU" I love Copying them, years later I made That voice into the main Girl puppet that I do.

Just keep your Ear open and Practice, Practice, practice!!