Morgan Freeman

Morgan freeman when making my character for the one act play i had a lot of trouble, i couldn't get it right. Never. always got it wrong and a couldn't find another way to do it. I suck. But ok... after looking at the script and seeing the intentions of the character, it was a little bit better. Knowing the intention of the character led me to know how to say the lines, which before i was just repeating with no tone at all... or movement.

Morgan freeman the voice i had to do is veeery different to the previous one i did in kabuki, but still, i (...after using a useless character voice for like 2 weeks) found. I guess. At least its better than the one before. But i wonder why even when i knew what voice i wanted to do, i just couldn't do it. I knew my voice shouldn't be like that, but i still did it, because with the combinations or morgan freeman, + old, + angry my brain was just fucked up and didn't know what voice was that. When working with stereotypes though, its much easier to ge the voice wanted. but when not, and maybe even trying to find a voice for someone that you can't relate or imagine, a voice of someone imaginary, then you would have to work the voice directly from the text, from the purpose and actions of the characters, and then find a new voice, for that character. But shouldn't it be like that all the time? Shouldn't actors find the voice of their characters by analyzing their characters instead of finding stereotypes that will fit? Or maybe thats how it's supposed to be, finding a stereotype and then modifying it to fit. But why can't you just create from sketch the voice?

Morgan freeman after thinking about it for a bit, i think that i have the answer. I suppose that this is so people can relate to the character, i mean, understand what the character is supposed to be, or what kind of character it is and so being able to understand his actions and purpose. If you make the voice something people won't understand then it will become a mindfuck.

Morgan freeman so this leads me to my reflexion that the voice of the character is not the important thing when actions, it just is to help build the character and to say the dialogue, which isn't that big of a deal either, the important thing is the actions, the voice just helps to audience understand what kind of character its supposed to be, and then understand the actions. I guess this is why we are told not to be redundant with voice and actions, since voice shouldn't show our purpose, but actions should. But then, does it matter what you say? Or only how you say it and what you do?