PPP costumes / Voice

If there is any one there that thinks that doing their PPP is easy they are dead. This is a job that requires a lot of concentration and more if you are working with other people that can decide as well as you what to do because then the coordination needed for the final product is essential. For the past 3 classes i have been trying, really trying my best to present a good PPP for the costumes of our one act play performance and i am no where there.
Its incredible how can a simple PPT presentation be so difficult, first if you have no drawing skills like me and if there is more than one idea to do the basic designs. How can you think on what someone else wants to wear? its very difficult and complex preparation because you need to take into account that you have to talk to you partners on the design then follow the color scheme and finally let Roberto to decide.
The thing with costumes is that you have not just to imagine them but to feel them, you have to try and visualize the character and the respective actor wearing that costume and then focus on the actions these characters have to do and how the costume affects the entrances of these actors because if the character leaves the stage and come back as another character like in our play, it has to be using a easy costume to put on, maybe a simple jumper or some kind of cloth so that the entrance can be done fast enough and very clear without having awkward silence moment or having to force some extra lines to give the actor more time.
Finally the other aspect of my post today is the voice which as all actors would agree on, one of the most important factors affecting a play and the final product. The voice is for the actor what the feet is for the dancers, or at least when it is a spoken play because it is not only changing the voice to suit a different character but also projecting the voice to make the whole audience clearly listen and understand what you say but mostly to help you develop you character to its maximum extent because a character that uses your own voice is never as good and as real as a character with a new voice, something different and something that helps you connect with him or her better
I could saee how different people can work with ranges of voices that come from very high pitch and low pitch, we can see this even in my theater group were we all have different ranges and some can represent a women while to others its very much more difficult, luckily for me i have a very big range which allows me to play with different types of voices and sometimes using some added effects that give the final touches to the voice.
The question i would like to leave for today is: Is it true that anyone can reach all basic ranges of voice with training?
I can tell you that is would be true if you see it by the idea that singers train their voices to reach clearly certain ranges but this does not mean that they can break their range and reach other ranges that they weren't born with. I dont really think that i could break my range because i dont practise enough but i think that i can play enough with that range so that i can play different type of characters easily.


“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”
Stephen Kaggwa