This week was an interesting one for me. We worked on the
idea of portraying your point in a creative manner and being passionate about
what you’re talking about. After the usual warmups the theme for this week was ‘painting
a picture.’ We were given an extract from a poem of a ship describing it in
detail.
We took ourselves off to a corner of the room and reading line by line
we used our and the empty space in front of us to paint a picture in front of
us. This allowed us to truly feel and be a little more passionate about what
the speech was saying. We came back into the middle and read it out line by
line delivering passion. We then went back in pairs, one person shut their eyes
and the other took them around the painting using their voice to express the
passion as well as the beauty of what they originally painted before. Having come
back into the circle again, every one delivered each individual line with more clarity
as if they could see it. whilst using the correct posture and having clarity in
pronouncing the words, everybody’s facial expressions were more relaxed and
convincing as they used facial expression to further the passion in their
voices making the speech come to life and pull the listeners in. After that,
the exercise was taken further, we went back and we acted out the speech putting
ourselves into the action of it and using our voices to feel the emotion within the text further. For
me this exercise proved to be the most useful as it allowed me to feel a
different tone within each of the lines as if it was a completely different
emotion than I had envisaged before. This for me helped with the preparation of
my speech as I was able to transfer this over and feel some different tones
within my speech that I wanted to portray.
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