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Toronto Acting Agency – Toronto Talent Agency – Tip Tuesday – Voice Projection

Voice projection involves controlling the distance that your voice travels as well as its volume and pitch. Clarity and a well-rounded voice help it to command more attention. Good voice projection is a skill that actors need.

Voice projection is not the same as yelling. Yelling can hurt your voice and damage your vocal chords over time.  If voice projection is something that you struggle with, it is luckily a skill that can be worked on.

Toronto Acting Agency – Toronto talent agency – Voice projection tips

1. Practice Breathing Exercises

Just like musical instruments, your voice needs air to project. To have better control of your voice, learn to breathe through your diaphragm. Practice the “HA” exercise by taking a deep breath in while expanding the belly, and then force out all the air on a “ha”. 

The sound will be loud and clear, without putting a strain on your vocal chords. As you practice this more, do the alphabet every time that you breathe out, and soon, you will have the strong voice that you are after.

2. Relax Your Jaw and Throat

Your voice travels through your throat and jaw. For it to sound its best, these channels must be relaxed. Yawning is a great exercise to relax those muscles before a performance. 

3. Correct Your Posture

A bad posture closes you up which makes it difficult for your diaphragm to expand correctly when you breathe. For optimal voice projection, keep your spine straight, your head facing forward, and the crown of the head parallel to the ceiling.

4. Be Confident

A lack of confidence will cause slight tremors in your voice and reduce its power. Confidence will not only help your voice projection but also your performance. The most effective way to improve confidence during a performance is to know your lines really well and to practice speaking in front of a crowd often.

5. Warm-Up

Create a good warm-up routine to do before every performance. Do a physical warm-up routine including movements such as some jumping jacks or dynamic stretches. A relaxed body will allow you to use your vocal muscles better. Have a warm-up routine for your voice as well, with some tongue twisters and breathing exercises.

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Toronto Acting Agency – Toronto Talent Agency – Talent Spotlight – Emilio P.

Our Talent Spotlight is for Emilio P.

Emilio has been with MAX since 2019 and has booked roles in the TV series American Gods and Homicide: Hours to Kill, and an Internet Commercial.

Toronto acting agency – Toronto talent agency – Emilio P.

Emilio has been working as a personal trainer for the past few years. He found a passion for health and fitness at the early age of 11 when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. From then on, Emilio had to watch what he ate to control his blood sugar level.

“I knew right away this would change my life forever but I never realized it would be such a massive positive change. Without a doubt I would not be the same person I am today if I didnt get diabetes.“

A few years later, he had another transformative experience at school when he had to do a fitness test. This triggered something in Emilio that has not been switched off even to this day.

“The competitive drive to improve and grow stronger and push my body to the point where it changed, and that process changed me as a person. As of January 1st 2022 my new life goal is to become the number 1 arm wrestler on the planet, i will become a professional arm wrestler at one point its just a matter of time.”

Toronto acting agency – Toronto talent agency – Emilio P.

“Acting and arm wrestling have 1 thing in common. When you do either thing youre entertaining the people watching it. I love entertaining, making people laugh and getting them to see the things Im imagining in my head. Im lucky to have a friend group that likes to act and bounce creative ideas off of each other and so this really helped me to realize I might actually be able to act infront of a camera.”

Emilios friends encouraged him to get started with an agency. Around the same time, he came across Maxs Instagram ad looking for talent. He joined MAX agency which started the chain of events that led him to become an actor.

Toronto acting agency – Toronto talent agency – Emilio P.

“The future holds a lot of different possibilities for me but the one thing I know for sure is my beautiful girlfriend. Everything I do is for our future life together and for our future family. I cant talk about myself without talking about my other half.

She also has a background in theater, she always helps me to prepare for auditions and makes me feel good about the process of trying to reach my goals. My family is so incredibly important to me and I hope I can make them happy.“

Emilio lives by the words, “Anything is possible, especially the impossible”.

Toronto acting agency – Toronto talent agency – Emilio P.

To book Emilio P., contact bookings@maxagency.com

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Toronto acting Agency – Toronto Talent Agency – Tip Tuesday – How to Practice Acting By Yourself At Home

Practicing acting by yourself may seem like it is not worthwhile, but actually, it can be the perfect opportunity to do acting exercises. Below are a few of our favourites.

1. Practice Your Lines While Doing Everyday Tasks

You have to do your chores anyway, so why not practice your lines while doing them? If you know your lines well when multi-tasking, you will know them and it will sound effortless when all your focus is on performing. Start with something easier like folding your laundry and then level up to more complex tasks such as cooking.

2. Record your scene partners lines

If the scene involves more than one person speaking, record yourself doing their lines and then use that recording to practice.

3. Do everyday tasks in character with or without lines

Body language is a big part of good acting. How would Jack Sparrow doing the dishes differ from James Bond doing the same? Practice the posture, gait, facial expressions, pace, and hand movements of different characters while doing your chores.

Toronto Acting Agency – Toronto Talent Agency – Tip Tuesday – Practice acting at home

4. Physically Acting Out Your Moment Before

This is an acting exercise that you may heard of to add depth to your performance. Think of the backstory of your scene, and act out what your character was doing right before. For example, if in a scene, your character is at home telling their partner that they had a long day- act out the moment before where your partner came home and sat down with relief from the tiring day. 

Try different scenarios. There are many possibilities for what might have happened before your first line, and they can really affect your character’s thoughts, feelings, and actions in your scene. Physically acting out those “moments before” can help you notice those effects more clearly. 

MAX Agency is a successful Toronto modeling agency representing men, women and children. MAX provides talent for the film, television, fashion and advertising industries as well as appearance in trade shows, promotions and special events.

For weekly MAX Agency news, updates, and Industry tips, follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter! Never miss a moment with MAX Agency!

If you want to join our roster, apply here.

To see our awesome talent check out our roster.

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Have any questions? Read our FAQ or contact us at info@maxagency.com