First Day

Greetings.

Oh, don't be offended. I didn't say that you had a big mouth. I'm just saying. Well, technically that's the gist of what Sally was saying. Oh, yeah, Sally is my totally cool-tastic professor for this class: Voice and Articulation. It's a theatre class offered for the actors voice, the performer's voice, orator's voice, or anyone's for that matter.

In our first session, I pulled three main components from our discussion. Basically, we needed to/ would cover the following points:

• Breathing
• Pronunciation
• Understanding/Comprehension 

They seemed pretty simple outside of the class, but when we put them together as a concept for the class it was pretty profound. I practiced most of these things on a daily basis, but hardly ever all at once. Of course there would be some writing, reading, and testing done throughout the semester. But the class, from what I gleaned, would primarily be focusing on cultivating my voice and the overall impact/effectiveness of it.

I got pretty excited when she started talking about the materials we would need for the physical portion of the class.

• Yoga mat
• Hand Towel
• Small mirror
• Wine Cork
• Tote bag

The wine cork idea reminded me of "The Great Debaters".  :D



Anyway, we're supposed to use this journal to record observations of our voice and the voices of other. I hope I got that right. As of now....

My personal observation is... I'm pretty ok...

At least I think so. Now to listen to the recording....