Voices

Volume

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_JzutLhl0&t=115s

• Whisper: hangover, throat/neck injury, stage whisper (loud)
• Loud: clueless, doesn't care about others, confident but incompetent

Enunciate + Diction

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_JzutLhl0&t=246s

• Clear, precise: Professor
• Snob: elite, noble
  • Alan Rickman, Prof. Snape
• Slurry: drunk

Cadence

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_JzutLhl0&t=375s

• Fast: energised (don't overuse, energy drain)
• Slow: monotone (teacher in Ferris Buller's Day Off), dramatic pauses (sloths in Zootopia)

Breathing

• Pooping voice (energy drain)

Stereotypes

• Old man (Gandalf)
• Screamy (Gollum) energy drain
• Pirate (Le Chuck)

Environment/Body language

• Relaxed in the chair
• Reverse chair
• Standing up, looking down
• Kneeled, looking up
• Hanging to the edge of the table/DM screen

Mess up your face

• Pinch your nose
• Pinch the corner of your mouth: scarred face
• Put fingers on the two corners of your mouth: tusks

Props + Clothing

Head Props

• A bald top with side hair
• Wigs

Mug

• Recap at the start
• Knight wearing a helmet

Cigar

Hoodie

Glasses

Catchphrases/Signature sounds

• Ends/starts every phrase with a weird sound “Hmmm…” reference here
• Squeaky sounds reference here
• Takes a long time to finish sentences (flutters around)