How do you get an actor to project voice better?

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Angelshare1

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Any quick fixes or exercises?

My actor has a bit of a Seinfeld voice and I'm trying to get him to have a sharper sound without just yelling or putting inflection on everything. Can anyone give me a poor mans voice lesson?
 
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I AGREE
 
How many lines does he have? If he's the lead there's no possible way he'll be able to maintain whatever it is you are projecting onto him.

I vote recast.
 
So just to be straight, every single actor who every got into acting sounded like Tom Cruise on his first day of acting school?

What sort of techiniques do they teach actors in school? What sort of exercises?
 
Rather than focusing on the actor bettering his performance, focus on bettering your performance as a filmmaker. Get decent audio equipment so that the actor's whisper serves to "project" and effect the audience emotionally. Projecting is for the stage. There's a million ways to focus the audience's attention on your actor's performance rather than have him change his volume, pitch, and cadence.

You'll notice that many of your favorite performances are actually much quieter than they appear due to the magic of good audio.
 
Angelshare1 said:
So just to be straight, every single actor who every got into acting sounded like Tom Cruise on his first day of acting school?

What sort of techiniques do they teach actors in school? What sort of exercises?
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no one was casting tom cruise on his first day of acting school.
 
Knoxworth said:
You'll notice that many of your favorite performances are actually much quieter than they appear due to the magic of good audio.
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+1, maybe get a better location sound guy.

You'll like to really mess up the rest of your actors act if you play with his delivery at this stage, it's too late. But talk to him in 12months he'll have nailed it comfortably by then.
Cheers.
 
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