Free · The 60-Second Voice Warm-Up

The first line of your self-tape is the first sound you've made all day.

Six moves. Sixty seconds. A voice that's already awake when you press record.

You've been quiet since breakfast. You set up the tripod, find your eyeline, press record. And the first thing your voice does all day is the line that matters most.

It comes out high and a bit thin. You hear it on playback and do another take. And another.

This is the minute you do first. Hallway, car, two metres from the camera. One page, six moves, done before the kettle boils.