my name is Marty I'm an actor and I have
an audition in 24 hours where I have to
do a Boston accent I think I might need
a little help I tracked down Paige
Clements with a professional dialect
coach here in New York City and
hopefully she can help me master my
Boston accent for today's audition so I
have come to you because I need a little
help
wonderful um I have an audition coming
up and I need to master a Boston accent
when is your audition today okay all
right
yeah really to master an accent you
would practice for anywhere from three
to four to five weeks but we will work
with what you have and it'll get you as
close to it as possible okay within the
time constraint yeah I've just been
wicked distracted lately between the
love of my life moving away in my own
shop closing I've got no idea what's
next but if this game gets rains out I'm
gonna go down to the for some beers
you see if Ricky's around I can't sit
around this house anymore
there's too many memories you're quite
the actor party so here's what I want
you to do first of all take a back step
from actually trying to do any acting
connection I would say this to anybody
whether your audition is in five hours
or five weeks choose a person okay to
listen to
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we're gonna watch a scene Matt Damon is
coming up he's very consistent
maxime you convinced to that till next
month when you get to James lemon and
you're gonna be talking about how the
economies of Virginia economy here that
the economies economy economy economies
and he's very natural with this he's not
showing his accent how the economies of
Virginia and Pennsylvania were
entrepreneurial and capitalist way back
in 1740 C 1740 he's got an upward
inflection very important thing to do
that you don't repeat every sentence
with a falling inflection so you're not
dropping the ends like that okay here's
what I want to say instead of here's
what I want to say I want to finish the
thought out here way back in 1740 1740
1740 so he's got that upward inflection
this guy's wicked duck I think we've got
a storm coming in massive is gonna be a
parking lot
don't drop that gonna be a parking lot
yeah okay okay doesn't mean that every
single thought has to be up I just don't
want you to be mindful that the habit
especially for the average American is
to drop it down and that's how you could
use an actor or anybody to help you
break it down right but if you watched
The Departed you've got really good
accent work and soso accent work we have
a blind spot why do we have a blind spot
do you're the difference between the
usage of the word spot blind spots blind
spot
he went spot spot spot spot yeah do you
hear that yeah okay so who was right him
mm-hmm
any calls they turned off their cell
phones searched randomly for calls made
from the area 807 phones alive in this
area the narrow the area would you see
there for service is what you're gonna
get yeah why the did they turn
their phones off all these guys speaking
right and then all of a sudden Mark
Wahlberg walks in and his accents
perfect again not that every single
human being in a film or a play has to
sound exactly like so choosing one
person instead of trying to listen to
five different people if you're going
I'm gonna sound like Marc we'll put the
in this place then he's gonna be the one
to help you who the are you I'm the
guy who does his job he must be the
other guy a lot of accents are housed
primarily in one area Boston has a
little bit of forward and up on the
stand to the mask that's why some people
sound a little bit more nasal there's a
lot of lateral sounds so that's where
we're gonna start I want you to think of
the a sound which makes your lips feel
very flat horizontal relaxed and the
resonation of the vowel is in the front
of your mouth so it's gonna feel right
here around your lips say specifically
Southie which is what they were going to
go for is the at impact
so just say that word pat pat now say
man man what you did was actually
terrific already for Boston in the word
man you've got to nasal consonants
you've got an M and an N and normally
with the Southie accent that a sound
becomes nasal prior to an M or an end
just say these words with me say mass
mass Pat's hat man man Cat Cat
ask-ask task task
what do you think Jackie is I knew like
is a liquor store the liquor store good
be careful I just noticed something you
did this happens when you first start
you could add like a physical almost no
articulation so be careful you don't go
because then your audition may look
like that you're wondering why are my
shoulders apart of this size okay pat
pat yeah Pat mass mass FF pocky
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now let's go to a different sound so the
next heart have us do is we're gonna
switch from the front to the back of the
mouth now okay okay the word on on or
off honest God long ah is a back vowel
so it's placed in the back of the mouth
what
Bostonians do is specifically Southie is
they treat this vowel as what we call a
diphthong now a diphthong is just a
speech turn diphthong is simply a
blending of two vowels okay if you move
your tongue like it's sort of doing a
little bit of a wave in there on you're
gonna have a lilt so listen to it
instead of honest general american
honest honest honest honest to god it's
not honest to god it's not do you feel
how you've not only changed the vowel
you've changed the place in the mouth
yes right on on coffee coffee want what
what do you want what do I want what do
you want that's it dog want on dog want
on I've got no idea what's next I've got
no idea what's next what's next what's
next in my own shop closing and my own
shops closing my own in my own shop shop
I'm gonna go down to the I'm gonna
go down to the pack if hacky for
some beers and see if Ricky's arounds
good I can't sit around this house
anymore there's too many memories oh my
god hope it's not end of the day you
know no no it can't be
already this sound yeah okay and this is
a big one okay in the world of accents
and dialects
you may hear the word Rohtak or
non-rhotic it's referring to whether or
not we use ours or not in our vowels
okay we have the words stir
that's a vowel that has what is called
our coloring so that makes it Rohtak now
people in Boston will round the lips a
little bit
so the vowel will feel more forward so
instead of stir stir stir
now let's purse the lips let's see if we
can find the sound a person person worth
worth round your lips a little more
perfect perfect I feel like I'm talking
in a British accent officer you're not
British
perfect perfect that's the strong and
what I mean by strong is is in the
accented syllable of the word we have a
weak
especially when it's at the end of a
word like in father sister brother
Theatre in Boston
we're gonna drop the are forgot about it
alright say dinner dinner theater
theater
father father sister sister I didn't you
saw that that was it ah so when you say
the word or you're not just saying vowel
vowel you say two vowels two vowels
think about it say or or yes good okay
that's what I do hung is or so what we
want to do is make the second vowel have
no our coloring
forget it aw or short so I so you're
relaxing the lips a little bit Boston
just like a chill there cool it's a
little mushy yeah of course of course
short short ha puck north north start
stop smart smart you're smart
thank you work work where's earth
certainly certainly
of course Orchard more of course Orchard
more there you go hairspray
dinner theater father dinner theater
father father let's go to the man
appeared under the dinner theater
let's go the purpose of working on an
accent over time is so that not only you
feel more comfortable with it but the
truth of the sentence sounds more fluid
you wanted to enhance the work not be in
the way of it okay you want it to be
like putting on a costume and we're not
just looking at the costume because of
the time element there are many more
sounds that we could go over we've hit
the stronger choices okay I'm getting
better at yeah I think you are yeah I
might have something to do with that you
feel like you're more prepared I feel
like I am more prepared just been wicked
distracted lately I've got no idea
what's next
I've got no idea what's next I've got no
idea what's next in my own shop closing
and my aunt shops close in my aunt shop
close in
I'm gonna go down to the for some
beers I'm gonna go down to the for
some BS I'm gonna go down to the
grab some beers so remember in tension
breathing inflection all the sound
changes and world peace perfect perfect
but this game gets reinforced game gets
rained out North Star North East I like
it coffee pot the copper coffee pot yeah
just go wicked distracted lately
Marty Miller okay hi my name is Marty
Miller and I'll be reading for the role
of Bobby the sky is a wicked dock never
got a storm coming and mass that was
gonna be a parking lot gonna take
forever to get to Lansdowne yeah no I
just know we could distracted lately
between the love of my life moving away
and my own shop closing I just got no
idea what's next
but if the game gets rained out I'm
gonna go down to the and grab some
beers and see if he's around maybe you
know I just can't sit at home anymore
just too many memories so I painted @ue
and I came here to see you and tell you
that I love you well to be quite honest
because we're all very territorial about
our accents of where we're from I'm sure
that if someone from the south side of
Boston heard Marty do this accent they
would probably say it's not accurate but
I think it's a little bit exaggerated
knows all there was just a happy yes it
was ah he's putting on you just tried
too hard tied now I'm thinking about how
I'm talking ever since I saw you on the
dunking only there it is the word salt
needs to be a little bit more of that as
I described to him saw and he's just
rounding it it could be slightly
confused with New York when I start
getting into a conversation with people
sometimes they think I'm from New York
last that was gonna be a parking lot
gonna take forever to get Sally it
sounded more like parking lot instead of
packing line yeah you could make a
little bit more of a difference in
parking lot they were a little too close
together in the shape and placement and
he starts a little bit fast but I think
he gets better as it goes on
I just don't we could distracted lately
not a 10 I'd give the guy like four
maybe five I think it needs a little bit
of work oh I would definitely give him a
button eat
I'll give him a seven but he's
definitely telling he's pushing those
words he's just you know blacks a little
bit say about an eight which is really
really good considering his short amount
of time to work on it look better as it
went on I think overall he hit the
sounds that we worked on within a short
time frame I was impressed how natural
he seemed to be with it how comfortable
he didn't seem too much in his head yeah
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