Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 13:03:05 -0600 (CST)
From: Buster <jmaroon1-AT-mail.airmail.net>
Subject: Re:  Puppet Voices


At 12:54 PM 12/6/96 -0200, patriot-AT-mip.net wrote:
>Hee, hee, I've been biting my tongue to keep quiet during this exchange.  I
>am a professional Speech Pathologist, licensed and certified and I practiced
>for a long time helping those who had done things TO their voices while
>doing things WITH their voices, both singers and actors.

Show off.  :-)

>I'm surprised that the advice was not given that FIRST you must decide what
>kind of "character" you are trying to create before you even try to give
>it/him/her a "voice".  It should fit the character as to size (small
>puppets, smaller voices unless for comic effect) and the "personality" you
>wish to create.

I guess I sort of do that.  I have a repertoire of voices.  When I put on a
puppet and sort of play with it a little, it tells me what its character is
and what its voice is. When I write a show, I line my puppets up on the
carpet and they again tell me who wants to be in it and what their parts
will be.   Sometimes they even tell me what the show is.

They scare me sometimes.

--Jim Maroon
The Storytelling Home Page    http://members.aol.com/storypage



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