Unit 320 (1.1) Range of Vocal Tecniques

Vocal Choices
Vocal Qualities	Presenting	Radio Broadcasting	Theatre Performance
1. Intonation & Melody Variation in tone and melody is vital. Decide which words and passages deserve extra attention and increase the tone to emphasise these points.	When presenting, intonation and melody is key, as you make certain passages sound more important. Emphasising certain words more and having a break out of a fluent phrase can do this.	When radio broadcasting, the melody of your voice would have to suit the character or situation that you are talking about. For example, if the situation is sad, then you would lower your voice and pitch and have breaks in the phrase.	Again, melody and intonation in theatre performance would have to be based on the situation as if your character was in a bad mood the tone would drop and there would be more pauses. In hope springs I added pauses into my melody when talking about my parents.
2.  Volume Projecting your voice to ensure everybody in the audience can hear you is essential. To draw the audience’s attention to certain parts of a speech, try varying the volume – sometimes louder, sometimes softer – so that selected passages stand out from the rest.	With volume in presenting you have to project clearly with a high volume. This is to allow the audience to hear what you are saying clearly and not hear a faint sound. The audience will have to understand what you are saying. The volume will have to stay consistently high.	In radio broadcasting you will have to have a high volume with consistency as well like presenting. This is so the microphone can pick up your voice clearly so the audience can hear you.	With theatre performance you must project your voice much more either, so the mic will pick you up or if you don’t have a mic the audience can hear you clearly. However, shouting is not an option unless it's to do with your character. If you must shout you should have a mic but still project your voice.
3. Clarity Don’t forget to articulate every word, to ensure clarity on your part and understanding on the part of the audience.	When presenting, clarity must be perfect otherwise some of the audience may not hear some of the key parts of the presentation.	With radio broadcasting your voice is what the audience are going to hear and the only thing that is going to relate to what you are talking about so clear clarity is key as mispronouncing a word could cause the audience to not understand what you are saying or what's going on.	Clarity in theatre performance is different as depending on the accent you have put in during the show depends how much you must articulate your words. However, during the songs, singing different sounds makes the words sound clearer and easier to hit the higher notes.
4.Emphasis Emphasising different words can change the focus of a message by altering meaning and/or implication.	Emphasis in presenting is great as you can really pick out the main points and make them stand out to the audience. This is by emphasising the correct words in the phrase that you are speaking.	Emphasis in radio broadcasting is key as you can't see facial expressions to allow the audience to know what you are feeling depends on what words the emphasis is on.	Emphasis in theatre performance can depict and characters emotion just by emphasising the correct phrases. For example, in hope springs I emphasised ‘doctor’ and ‘lawyer’ and they were key information in the monologue.
5. Pauses There are several purposes for which pauses can be used.. ·      to give listeners a chance to absorb something ·      to generate expectations about something that’s going to be said ·      to give the presenter a moment to focus	Pauses in presenting are used so an audience can absorb the information that the presenter is giving. Also it gives the present time to focus, and it can make a certain phrase more recognised and emphasised so the audience remember that part of the presentation.	With radio broadcasting, pauses can illustrate what is going on and sometimes how the character is feeling, either surprised or emotional. It gives more characterisation to the character and allows the listeners to recognise the characters emotions and gives them a moment to think about the characters emotions.	Pauses in theatre performance can be used to get a point across to the audience or, depending on how the character is feeling, the mood that is being set. In hope springs I added pauses in my monologue to show that I was thinking about what my parents had done to the character. This gives across that my character was more emotional.
6. Pacing If a speech is delivered too fast, it can hinder understanding and generate anxiety in the audience. If it’s delivered too slowly, it can tire and bore people.	With pacing in presenting, if you have a slow pace it could make the audience bored so they wont take any information in from the presentation so keep it uplifting but make sure the pace isn’t too fast otherwise they may not be able to understand.	Pace is everything as it can set the mood of a character in a radio broadcast. If a character is angry the pace and volume would increase but not too much that the audience wouldn’t understand. However, slow the pace could make a character emotional or sound more emotional that before.	Pacing in theatre performance helps set the tone and atmosphere of the whole show in general. Also pace can change between characters but usually a steady pace is need so the audience here you clearly and don’t misunderstand anything. If its too slow it can make the audience become bored.
7.  Tone Setting the right tone for the speech overall can ensure better understanding and relevance to the audience.	A tone in a presentation is key as it could help the audience get engaged with the presentation or get bored with it. For a presentation the tone would need to e uplifting and have some good energy.	Tone in radio broadcasting is essential as it portrays the characters emotions and feeling, as there are no facial expressions being used that the audience can see.	With theatre performance, tone can set the mood for the characters emotions and how the character is feeling as it can be uplifting and emotional.