Friday 11 December 2015

Week 8

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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