Accents

For this production we have decided to focus our voice work with a Scottish accent, as the company that the class saw were Scottish, and it appealed to the students. To do this, I have been researching various videos to help replicate the tone and pace of the accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mALkCGVA2BU

This video features an actor and voice coach who takes the audience through dialect and vowels and how they sound for a general Scottish accent. This is marked 'general' because accents differ from all over Scotland.

After watching Trainspotting, the Scottish accent also seemed to be more natural, from hearing it the entire time throughout the film. To ensure that I have nailed the accent, I will watch this film again at a later date, nearer the time of the performance to keep the accent updated.