Vocal Review

1. Vocal Review

2. Vocals • Intelligibility=enunciate • Inflection=variation vs. Monotony • Tempo=characterization, mood, atmosphere • Volume=loudness • Force=intensity • Pitch=highness or lowness (habitual or ideal) • Timbre=vocal quality

3. Facial Expression • Eye Contact • Measured in percent • Look downs • Panning • Area focus • Variation = natural • Facial tension • Relaxation • Appearance of comfort

4. Performance Details • Body Language • Posture • Gestures • Facial Expression

5. Posture • The alignment of your body parts. • Descriptive terms: • Upright • Slouch/stooped shoulders • Leaning • Shifting • Swaying

6. Gestures • Motions of your limbs or body you use to help you express or accentuate an idea. • Natural • Motivated by mood • Not overused

7. Levels of Thinking An analytical approach to impromptu speaking

8. Three levels of Thinking • Facts • Inferences • Abstract

9. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

10. Facts A thing that is known to have occurred, to exist, or to be true. Or Concrete symbols or agents that can be conceptualized. • Crisis • change • actions • ideas • Function • alternatives • impossible • inevitable

11. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

12. Inferences • Experience + facts = inference • actual or perceived crisis • real change • ideas lying around • impossible vs. inevitable • Inference = Change can be controlled.

13. Abstract • Theme • Inference: • Change can be controlled. • Theme: Manipulation

14. Impromptu Step One: Identify Theme • Level One = Prompt or Quote • Fact = Crisis, change, inevitable • Level Two = Inference • Crisis can transform impossible change to inevitable change. • Level Three = Manipulation • Time: :30

15. Strategy • Pro/Con • Problem/ Solution • Chronological • Topical

16. Thesis Statement • Problem/Solution • Example: • Manipulation is a bad thing. • Manipulation in a relationship is a bad thing. • Manipulation spellsdisaster in any relationship. • Time: 1:00

17. Intro/Support • Personal/logical perception (Thesis Statement) • Perception Possesses Audience Connection (A.G.) • Example (Personal Example + Explanation = Bridge) • Preview • Transition into Body • Time: 1:30

18. Body/Main Points • Pro/Con • Con • Pro • Problem/Solution • Problem • Solution

19. Example of Body • Problem: Manipulation is not love, but the abusive psychosis of a control freak. • Solution: Save yourself! and discover the symptoms of a manipulative person. • Time: 2:00—Time’s UP!!!!!!!!!!!

20. Introduction • Attention Getter: Involve Audience directly; Scenario; Story; Humor; Rhetorical Question; Question (5 pts). • Bridge=elaborate transition that explains Attention Getter with personal example and explanation (2 pts). • Thesis Statement (5 pts.) • Preview= Main Points (2pts.) • Transition (keep it simple; 5 pts.)

21. Body • Main Point: Complete Sentence stating first inference=dynamic verb; provocative proposition (10 pts). • ex: Manipulation is not love, but the abusive psychosis of a control freak. • Personal Example with explanation as Supporting Evidence (5 pts.). • ex: First marriage and the • Universal Truth with explanation (3 pts)

22. Conclusion • Restate problem/solution • Conclude with example from introduction.

23. A Heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

24. “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” — Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolutionary