VOICE - beware the 'falling ending'
| Take care over your pitch patterning - the musical notes in your voice, and how these notes go up and down. (We need pitch to make sense of words and our voice stream.) |
| TAKE CARE over your sentence endings and endings of phrases too. Beware repeating the same ending time after time. (Repetitive pitch patterning) |
| Especially beware of the FALLING ENDING - where your voice falls down, again and again, at the end of every sentence. |
| THE VOICE LOSES ITS ENERGY AND ITS VOLUME. THE AUDIENCE CANNOT UNDERSTAND YOU. |
| I have noticed this too often in student plays. It is so boring. Acting ceases to take place. |
| Start looking for examples of the 'falling ending' in speech. Listen to your friends. Listen out for that person who swallows the end of every sentence and even phrase. You will find them! |
| Listen and observe from films, especially American films. |
| For example, in 'Skulls III', the female lead puts a falling ending into nearly everything she says. It's weird!! |
| It is a way of speaking in real-life talk. And especially in young people. This is sometimes a marker of being young. But NOT ON STAGE! |
| Observe also the 'rising ending'. Each sentence ends on a rising musical note, whether question or statement or anything. This is a feature of Australian speech and of Estuary English in the UK. |
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