Endoscopy and videos

After the Van den Berg film we then showed the Looking At A Voice endoscopy video ebooks that I have made for downloading.

Seeing them back to back with the Van den Berg film makes you realise how much camera images have improved in the last 50 years. And of course that all the editing, voiceover recording and compiling of the ebook footage can be done on my home computer. And put up on the internet, and downloaded onto another person's home computer!

I designed the video ebooks for voice people interested in knowing what goes on "down there". I decided it was important for those of you who have never seen an endoscopy video to talk you through exactly what you see on screen, from naming the different parts of the larynx to indicating what to watch for in the video sections.

On Meribeth's course, the group also got to see the fourth video ebook in the series, which hasn't even made it onto the internet yet. For those of you not in the know, when my PC went to the computer hospital last month, it returned without three quarters of its files. Unfortunately the fourth film in the series was one of the files that I lost.

It was only when we came to prepare for Meribeth's course and checked out the files on the new laptop that I discovered an "almost final" version of the edited film. It actually has a few extra seconds of footage on it, which I am now going to include in the revised final version. It's due out in the next couple of weeks, so I'll keep you posted.

I'm very proud of my series of videos - I was the first person in the UK to produce a video endoscopy ebook for download, and it's one of my most interesting pieces of work. If you want to find out more about the series, you can visit the Looking At A Voice video endoscopy ebook page on the Vocal Process website.

Visit http://www.vocalprocess.co.uk for the latest downloads:
the Vocal Process eZINE (free electronic magazine)
86 things you never hear a singer say (free ebook)
Looking at a Voice (endoscopy video download)
Constriction and Release (opening the throat on video - the latest endoscopy video download)

Vocal Process is running a new course in October
Singing and the Actor Training with Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher is based on Gillyanne's groundbreaking book on non-classical vocal techniques