Hi, my name is Boet.
And today I'm going to explain to you how I do the voice of Morgan Freeman. So the voice of Morgan Freeman
consists of two parts. It's got a high pitched part
and a low pitched part. for example, if he were to do the monologue
of The Shawshank Redemption with only his high pitched voice,
it would not make much of an impression. This is how it would sound. Rehabilitated. Well, now let me see. You see, I don't really have any idea
what that means. It doesn't sound epic to me. It doesn't have that character
that that, you know, that that je ne sais quoi
that everyone loves about Morgan Freeman well that je ne sais quoi
is actually the other end of his voice. It's the low end part. The high end part is probably very easy
to emulate by lots of people because if you just train your voice
just a little bit, it's easy to make it sound like this. Anyone can do that.
Well, most people can do that. To mix that with the low end,
you first of all, must have a low voice. If you don't have a low voice,
there's a trick that is by approaching the microphone
to an extent that the microphone picks up. Also the very weak low sounds,
the very weak base sounds of your voice. And that's
how you get this really low sound. If you want to do a really compelling
impression of Morgan Freeman, however you shouldn't
sound like you're glued to the microphone. You should be able to get that low-end
sound by yourself And me, I'm six foot eight, so I'm really tall. I have long vocal cords also,
and the resonance, the frequency of your voice
is in the most part, you know, decided
by the length of your vocal cords. The longer these vocal cords are,
the lower the frequency is. I can show you now what? When I do the low end of the voice
of Morgan Freeman in the microphone, but not crawling into it,
it would sound like this rehabilitated? Well, now let me see. You see, I don't really have any idea
what that means. What I can do now is mix the two together. And then it would sound like this rehabilitated? Well, now let me see. You see, I don't really
have any idea what that means to me. It's just a made up word. Morgan Freeman. And one final tip
when I do Morgan Freeman, I basically try to look exactly like he
looks. I sort of mimic his his facial traits that what he does is he basically freezes the top end of his face
and the lips are moving, but barely. And he's just glancing in that camera and his face doesn't move at all. So if I would do rehabilitated? Well,
now let me see if I do a lot of voice, uhm... head nodding,
then it's not going to be as compelling as when I just freeze
exactly the way he does and look into the microphone like this
with your eyes wide open, completely emotionless, and then slowly let that voice come down. And maybe I could crawl
just a little bit into the microphone so as to sound more like Morgan Freeman. But what you see is I'm
basically freezing my face. The only thing moving is my lips. There you have it. Morgan Freeman done by a Dutchman. What do you know? Thanks for watching. And if you want to see me,
do another voice. For example, the epic British voice
of Michael Caine, who uses a similar technique as Morgan Freeman,
but in a totally different way. You'll have to, like, subscribe
and ring the bell because Michael Caine is next on the list. Okay, goodbye.
