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Take Lessons from an Actor --Speech & Confidence Training
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(1,209 ratings)
7,150 students

Take Lessons from an Actor --Speech & Confidence Training

Be successful in Job interviews, public speaking, committee meetings, employee evaluations, selling and auditions.
Created byGene Williams, Edmund Desiato
Last updated 7/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Speak clearly with the goal of being understood, will have more confidence and a relaxed presence in speaking situations, understand the basics of body language and how to work with fear in social conversations and public speaking.

Course content

4 sections • 60 lectures • 1h 26m total length

  • Speech Class -- Take Lessons from an Actor -- The Introducion1:33

    Our goal is for you be understood, to build confidence in your ability to communicate, and reduce anxiety. We recognize how critical it is to your success for you to be a relaxed and confident communicator, as a presenter, lecturer or member of a panel, or being interviewed, evaluated or auditioned, your speech, how you present yourself could determine your future.

    Part 1

    The course design is divided into two parts: Part 1 is comprised of videos with actor/ instructor Ed Desiato interacting and teaching students in almost a classical training approach. We demonstrate breathing exercises and talk about the physical making of sound as your voice and how to enrich that sound. There is also a video of class work with students covering phonetics as an introduction to voice training, diction or pronunciation. These are actual student teacher lecture demonstrations. There are videos using tongue twisters to combine breathing and diction. There is a video of a student reading from a prepared text that we provide. One that we'll be asking you to record as part of the class.

    These 4 videos demonstrate what happens in “speech class” as a way to familiarize you with some of the theory and how the teacher corrects and prompts the student. You'll be seeing three students edited throughout the classroom lectures.

    We also include lectures on body language, fear of public speaking, and mindfulness training.

    Part 2

    In part 2 we've designed for you a daily practice that progresses over a 20 day period in which we've incorporated all of the elements of training seen in Part 1. We wanted to give you a structure to encourage you to actually do the work, like piano lessons, you'll have to actually do the exercises. It's only then that you'll start to see a noticeable difference in you communication.

    Before we go any further, I would like for you to make a recording of your voice. You can use your phone if you like. Pick one of the sample paragraphs provided, these are the sample paragraphs that Ed uses to coach the students.

    You can use that recording as a base line of how you speak now and compare it to another recording we'll suggest you do at the end of this course, a before and after.

  • Record your voice from one of these sample texts1:00

    Record your voice using one or all of the three sample texts you see in the PDF. Use your phone or any other recording device and simply record yourself reading the text. You'll hear these same texts used later on in the course with Ed and his students. Open and download the PDF to see the sample paragraphs.

Requirements

  • Be prepared to make a recording of a prearranged text to be recorded again at the end of the course for comparison.

Description

Course Description

Our goal is to improve your speech performance, increase your confidence and credibility, enhance communication, reduce fear in all of those critical speaking opportunities that make a difference in your life:

  1. Job interviews

  2. Customer Service

  3. Public speaking

  4. Auditions

  5. Committee meetings

  6. Professional presentations.

  7. Teaching

  8. Selling

This is a Speech Class taught from an actor's perspective.  This is a course of exercises and thought related to enhancing your speaking abilities, taught from an actor's perspective. Ed Desiato, the co-instructor, is a graduate of the New York Academy and has been active in theater and television all his life. Ed introduces us to classical voice training and shares his secrets of speech that have been so critical to his success in life.

Content and Overview

Our goal is for you be understood, to build confidence in your ability to communicate, and reduce anxiety. We recognize how critical it is to your success for you to be a relaxed and confident communicator, as a presenter, lecturer or member of a panel, or being interviewed, evaluated or auditioned, your speech, how you present yourself could determine your future.

The course design is divided into two parts: Part 1 is comprised of videos with actor instructor Ed Desiato interacting with students in almost a classical training approach. We demonstrate breathing exercises and talk about the physical making of sound as voice and how to enrich that sound. There is also a video of class work with students covering phonetics as an introduction to voice training, diction or pronunciation. These are actual student teacher lecture demonstrations. There are videos using tongue twisters to combine breathing and diction. There is a video of a student reading from a prepared text that we provide.

These four videos demonstrate what happens in “speech class" as a way to familiarize you with some of the theory and how the teacher corrects and prompts the student. You'll be seeing three students edited throughout the classroom lectures.

We also include lectures on body language, fear of public speaking, and mindfulness training.

In part 2 we've designed for you a daily practice that progresses over a 20 day period in which we've incorporated all of the elements of training seen in Part 1. We wanted to give you a structure to encourage you to actually do the work, like piano lessons, you'll have to actually do the exercises. It's only then that you'll start to see a noticeable difference in you communication.

You will be asked to make a recording of your voice. You can use your phone if you like. You'll be given sample paragraphs to read for your voice sample.

You'll be able to use that recording as a base line of how you speak now before the course, and compare it to another recording we'll suggest you do at the end of this course. These recordings will be a before and after record of your improvement.

What am I going to get from this course?

  1. 1 hour and 32 min of classroom and lecture videos

  2. 27 audio practice files

  3. 13 PDF documents of essays, suggested readings and lecture explanations

  4. 20 day practicum of speech and mindfulness training exercises

  5. Suitable to those in the teaching, sales, business and acting professions

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone anticipating critical speaking opportunities that make a difference in your life: Interviews for jobs, auditions, committee meetings, teaching, and of course public speaking.

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