The topic of professional speaking is very relevant because now there are as many smartphones as there are television journalists. This is very good. This forces one to blog, to look around carefully when searching for journalistic topics. After all, you want to attract users, become a star, so this is the good old television motivation, although from the outside it seems that everything has changed, but it is not.
In video blogging, as in television, the main tool will be audio, even if you figure it out.
This is not the case in acting – there is also such a tool as facial expressions. But in television and blogging, the first thing is voice, because it is not customary to make facial expressions on the Internet.
I never thought that sound is such an important tool for influencing the audience until I made an appointment with the leader of the Buddhists of our country, Khambo Lama Ayusheev, at Ivolginsky datsan near Ulan-Ude. The first thing the leader of the local Buddhists said from the door was: “Your true instrument is your voice, which is known throughout the country.”
I never thought of him like that! I am not Shalyapin. It is your voice that is the vehicle of your soul, because it is breathing.
And in fact, a person’s voice reveals more information about themselves and their thoughts, true feelings, and motivations than they would like. That’s why you need to own your voice. I started thinking about this.
My voice is different when I cross the threshold of Ostankino and when I leave Ostankino. I think the same situation should be different for bloggers; When the “record” light on a smartphone or amateur camera turns on, the sound should change.
And here’s how: you have to lean on the diaphragm – then your whole body, including such a huge thing as cavities (now I mean primarily the lung cavity and the abdominal cavity), will become a resonator, as if a jumbo guitar was made from it. It starts to kick in with a huge resonator.
Now I’m talking to you on TV, but in everyday life, this is when I’m talking from my lungs. Very squeaky. When you argue with your family, you often squeal, not realizing how obnoxious you are right now.
But when you start talking about the diaphragm, which is what separates the lungs from the stomach, it’s easy to feel, your voice immediately becomes different, because your whole huge body starts working as a resonator. If you want to get to the bottom of it, I will not be lazy to take inexpensive but very important lessons from professional stage speech teachers.
The voice you use on camera is not the same voice you use when arguing with your spouse. Just like the motivation with which you fight with your spouse is different from the motivation with which you speak to the million strong army of your followers or viewers.
The next number in our program is the amplitude. They just don’t think about it, but they should. Follow my work in the framework – my amplitude is more than professionally created. We know from literary studies that the most noble punctuation mark is the period. But the topic also needs to be determined by you and the voice. For example, a monotonous cleric who can put any number of people to sleep is characterized by having absolutely no lower intonation. Monotony is the absence of a base note in the voice. Pauses are also extremely important. They must necessarily follow this lowest note of your speech, which must be repeated often when the logical thesis ends. Once the listener understands, the viewer will get a clue as to how to perceive what you are saying.
We must remember that pacing is extremely important in both television and vlogging. How long the pause lasts depends solely on skill. You should feel it. Even if you have to say something very quickly, no one in the world can eliminate the need to make some pauses at the end of any sequence of meaning.
I also advise you to adopt the communication style in which employees of the Central sanatorium in Crimea always talk to people. They spoke with a half-smile, then the half-smile in their voices was picked up by central television announcers who read boring reports about meetings of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Party.
It is this smile in the voice that today the chief physicians of psychiatric hospitals use when talking with especially violently insane people.
I advise you not to neglect these lessons and when speaking to the camera, bend the corners of your mouth slightly upwards, as if preparing to smile, this will definitely help. I also recommend leaning back against the frame a bit. This will help the sound flow freely. You can’t sit upright as if you were taking a photo for a passport or an enamel oval for a monument. As a rule, the left side of the face is the working side. Very few people have the right employees. You need to turn your left side slightly towards the camera and tilt your forehead.
This will build confidence in your listener, no matter what exactly you say in your voice later.
Source: Gazeta
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