INTERVIEW: Paula Vanlandingham - Dialect & Accent Coach for Actors
PAULA VANLANDINGHAM offers professional accent, dialect, and language training for actors in film, television, gaming, and digital media.
Paula is a linguistic powerhouse. She coaches MORE THAN 50 WORLD ACCENTS & DIALECTS OF ENGLISH, as well as 5 FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
She offers live, custom coaching--available to you anywhere in the world you can get a signal: At home, on set, in the airport, at your parents' house via Zoom, FaceTime, or Skype, with session recordings made available to you for self-study!
I have worked with Paula on a number of occasions and the results just keep coming! Most importantly, she helps actors build confidence. THANK YOU, PAULA, for coming to talk with our community!
ENJOY, and kick your fear of accents!
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TOPICS:
00:50 Paula’s Introduction
03:17 Linguistics & Accent Training
04:48 High-Demand Accents
08:21 The Value of a Dialect Coach
09:51 Accents and the Brain
12:16 Don’t Be Scared of Accents!
12:54 Working with Paula: Session Format
17:13 How to Train Accents & Dialects
18:26 Resources: IDEA Dialect Bank & TikTok
23:31 Accent Work in the Past & On-Set Coaches
25:26 Responsibility of the Actor
29:40 Paula’s Coaching Style & Building Confidence
32:21 Accent Gym
35:16 The Importance of Regular Training
36:25 Choosing Appropriate Accents & Dialects
40:32 Multilingual Actors
Dialects Archive:
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/
Scene Mentioned in ‘Brave’ (unintelligible Scot, even to the other Scots):
• The Hilarious Aberdonian in Brave
Paula’s Accent Training Website:
https://www.accentpaula.com/
Paula on Instagram: @accentcolors
/ accentcolors
Paula on YouTube:
/ @accentcolorsdialectcoachin4745
Paula Vanlandingham IMDb:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7296545/
Tim Monich Article (25:52):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
Andrew Jack (25:15)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...)
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