CELEBRITIES WHO LIKE THE SOUND OF THEIR OWN VOICE

 

My personal character research was to find celebrities who like the sound of their own voice. It was interesting for me to get this task as I hadn't originally thought of my character as one who was self obsessed and so it showed him in a new light to me.

 

My immediate instict was Piers Mogan, so I started to research video's of him talking and I found that he was especially useful as he is often taking part in debates as my character is, making him relatable.

This video was especially helpful for me as it showed him in full debate and how he acts and still gets his voice heard. Certain characteristics have been really useful for me to watch and analyse as they could be modified to go into my character and to help me create the vocal and physical characterisation of Collins. One of the main qualities that I picked up on was how Piers would interupt when he thought others was wrong and had to have his voice heard to the point that he would continue to talk over the other people to make sure that his point got put across. I think that this is really interesting to see as it could show him wanting to intergect his power into the debate and to use that to give him an advantage. It also shows a stubbon, controling nature within him as a person and that he can't have others making him seem wrong.

However I don't think that my character is as arrogant and aggrsive as Piers is, consquently I feel that I could take certain aspects of him but dull them down and calm them slightly to make them more realsitic to my character.

 

 

Another celebrity that I looked up was Jeremy Clarkson (and yes he is coincidentally talking about Piers Morgan :P ). This was also really helpful for my character as, especially in this interview, as he is slightly calmer than Piers and shows him getting lost in the sound of his own voice but not in an arguamentative manner. Something that really helped me in this video was how he really embelished the story and exagerated certain moments to extend the story and to pro-long being able to be the center of attention. I found this useful as my character does like to go on a bit and I think that I could use this in my characterisation by extanding my sentances through my voice and drawing out the vowls to make words longer. I think that I could enjoy the sound of my voice like Clarkson does and take pleasure in the words that I am saying and the story that I'm telling instead of wanting it to be over with quickley.