Final Update

My passage presentation is on Thursday and I'm stoked. I still have to get together with Mrs. Jensen tomorrow at lunch, but other than that, I have everything done, all I need to do is put it together into a presentation.

Update

I am beginning the last of the accents, and let me tell you they were difficult. The Minnesotan/North Dakotan accent was the easiest by far, and I have decided to use that on in my script. The Spanish accent was kind of easy, and I will use it in my script. The French accent was really hard and I can't successfully do it. The Greek accent, so far, is down right impossible as with the Cornish accent. Overall I am pretty bad at this, but it's a learning experience.

Update

I just finished my canadian accent. It is ok for a beginner but nothing all that special. I have also started part 1 of my 3 part script, and it is quite funny, both to read and to write. I am now working on my spanish accent. I can only do it while speaking in spanish.

Clarification on vocal positions

Vocal positions are the positions you place things like your jaw or tongue in order to do a certain accent. Position movement is just the manner in which you move those parts, like moving the tongue blade towards the soft palate to get a retroflex "r" sound.

Decided on the accents I want to do

For the 5 accents I want to attempt to get the hang of I plan on trying: Cornwall, French, Greek, Spanish and Minnesotan. Cornwall because it's difficult, French because it's useful, Greek because it sounds fun, Spanish because I can somewhat speak the language, and Minnesotan because it sounds interesting. I will be trying to learn them using vocal positions and position movement, which I haven't tried before. The only accent I am decent at is Aristocratic British which I taught myself by singing the galaxy song from Monty
Python's Meaning of Life.

Proposal

For my fourth and final junior passage, I will study the science of accents and hopefully develop a few myself. I will also try to improve on ones I can already do (i.e. Aristocratic English). I will explore the theatrics of them and application of them in theater. As far as an expert I was thinking of contacting Mrs. Jensen.

My presentation will be very audience involved and I will go through the main stuff as usual. At the end I will give an example of a monologue.

Some questions I want to answer are:

• How can different accents affect the audiences views on a character?
• What is an accent?
• What causes an accent?
• Why is it used in theater?

    Goals that I have for this passage:

• I will get the hang of at least 5 accents.
• I will find and present at least one theory on how accents were formed.
• I will use the blog to a greater potential.
• I will use my expert to her full potential.