Today, on Saturday morning I had a session with Ms. Olsen. I tried doing an old man's voice but it didn't sound good, it's called "vocal fry." Instead she told me to make voice sound more smoother softer.

 This time there were only two other people for the session, Aubrey and Lee. I also tried a girl's voice, Ms. Olsen said I should make the girls voice more sassy (I chose the "Salt" story to read, you can see a part of it in one of my posts).

 The reason she wanted my voice to sound sassy is because there is a part in the script where a girl named "Vanya" says words in the script "I know something there isn't a story about" and "salt" and "there can't be a story about salt."

She said it is more important that the character's personality comes out in my acting than it was to be able to sound like the girl's or the old man's real voice. I had fun acting as the character Vanya because she's trying to be smart on her grandfather but the grandfather out-smarts Vanya. I really like both characters.

One of the mistakes I noticed was that If you make every word important it's starts to sound weird. What you you should do is underline the important words.

When I read to here the script she said I was reading too fast and I should slow down.

Ms. Olsen also said that when I'm reading and narrating I should make it sound like me, because I was trying to make my voice sound like an adult.

Another mistake l do is sometimes I read so fast that I'm skipping syllables.

I do really well on reading lists and ending in the right tone.

This is a script Coach Carrie Olsen gave to each of us during today's workgroup session. This is a "Rip and Read" practice, which means we don't know much about the script and try it without practicing too much.

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Salt by Arthur Ransome

(Introduction section of the fable with narrator voice and three characters)

ONE evening, when they were sitting round the table after their supper, old Peter asked the children what story they would like to hear. Vanya asked whether there were any stories left which they had not already heard.

"Why," said old Peter, "you have heard scarcely any of the stories, for there is a story to be told about everything in the world."

"About everything, grandfather?" asked Vanya.

"About everything," said old Peter.

"About the sky, and the thunder, and the dogs, and the flies, and the birds, and the trees, and the milk?"

"There is a story about every one of those things."

"I know something there isn't a story about," said Vanya.

"And what's that?" asked old Peter, smiling in his beard.

"Salt," said Vanya. "There can't be a story about salt." He put the tip of his finger into the little box of salt on the table, and then he touched his tongue with his finger to taste.

"But of course there is a story about salt," said old Peter.

"Tell it us," said Maroosia; and presently, when his pipe had been lit twice and gone out, old Peter began.

Today l had my first session with Mrs. Olsen and about six people were there [my sessions are only on the internet through Skype]. She listened to me reading a script. She gave me the script. lt was the same one for everybody to read and practice on. 

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