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Accents & Dialects with Doug Honorof

starts 22 Sep, 8hrs online & 12hrs in-person

About the Masterclass

The training will be delivered in two stages with the first stage being online and the second stage in-person in Bristol.



Dialects Posthaste 1: Trusty Building Blocks

8 hours total - 4 x 2hr sessions | Online (Zoom)

Sunday 22, 29 Sept, 6 & 13 Oct, 6pm-8pm each day


Dialects Intensive:


  • Crafting people from voices

  • Cascading into specificity (ear-training, transcription, coordination of the vocal organs for speech sounds)

  • Sound versus spelling

  • Big picture shifts (recognising patterns in melody, rhythm, loudness and the relative duration of sounds)

  • Primary sources -- beyond the usual suspects

  • Retention and consistency

  • Applying it all to an unfamiliar accent




Dialects Posthaste 2: US accents of English for British actors ("general" versus specific American); pre-req DP1

12 x hrs in-person over 2 days (6hrs / day)

Sat 9 & Sun 10 Nov, Central Bristol, Venue tbc


Applying the basic building blocks to US accents:


  • The lay of the land, sea to shining sea

  • A portable treasure trove of primary source recordings for self-adjustment

  • Working with a coach


Your Trainer

Doug Honorof

Doug Honorof will teach exclusively in the UK for BRAVA, delivering his intensive accents & dialects programme, both online and in-person in Bristol.


Doug is one of the busiest and most respected dialect coach and language consultants in the business for scripted television, film, animation and audiobooks and has worked on over 400 films and episodes of television including productions shot on five continents and one on the open ocean: imdb.me/dialectdoug


He who cut his teeth decades ago on straight plays and musicals, commercials, games and narration and trained as an actor, comedian, writer and linguistic phonetician (including, especially, at Yale/Yale Drama, the Actors Center, the Barrow Group and the Dramatist Guild Institute). He has taught at the Yale School of Drama and CAP21 (NYU/Tisch) and other leading actor training programmes.

Doug Honorof

Details

Dialects Posthaste 1 - (online): £600 inc. VAT

Dialects Posthaste 2 - (in-person, Bristol, venue tbc): £900 inc. VAT

Dialects Posthaste 1 + Dialects Posthaste 2 booked together: £1,390 inc. VAT

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