Stella Adler was speaking about actors. Her words apply to you, too. Actor, speaker, dancer, activist, employee, manager, whatever you are – this is the key to stepping up and letting your voice ring out with power and sincerity.
When tone is more important than content
I interrupt our series on communicating with intimacy to bring you a long overdue bit of Friday Silliness.
In today’s lesson, Toby Turner – also known as the YouTube personality Tobuscus – demonstrates how tone can completely contradict content. Alliteration aside, it is a useful lesson.
Does your chorus sound like Coldplay?
But how does it sound?
Voice quality is a very, very important thing. A beautifully timbered voice can make the foolish sound clever. A juvenile, chirpy tone can make the experienced professional seem like an vacuous twit.
And a well-placed voice over can turn a touching scene into this:
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This is an old video, but I laugh myself silly every time I see it.