Vocal Review

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

Facial Expression Eye Contact

Measured in percent Look downs

Panning Area focus Variation = natural

Facial tension Relaxation Appearance of comfort

Performance Details Body Language

Posture Gestures Facial Expression

Posture The alignment of your body parts. Descriptive terms:

Upright Slouch/stooped shoulders Leaning Shifting Swaying

Gestures Motions of your limbs or body you use to

help you express or accentuate an idea. Natural Motivated by mood Not overused

Levels of ThinkingAn analytical approach to impromptu speaking

Three levels of Thinking Facts

Inferences

Abstract

“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.”

FactsA thing that is known to have occurred, to exist, or to be true.

OrConcrete symbols or agents that can be conceptualized. Crisis change actions ideas Function alternatives impossible inevitable

“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.”

Inferences Experience + facts = inference

actual or perceived crisis real change ideas lying around impossible vs. inevitable

Inference = Change can be controlled.

Abstract Theme Inference:

Change can be controlled.

Theme: Manipulation

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

Strategy Pro/Con Problem/ Solution Chronological Topical

Thesis Statement Problem/Solution Example:

1. Manipulation is a bad thing.2. Manipulation in a relationship is a bad thing.3. Manipulation spells disaster in any relationship.

Time: 1:00

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

Body/Main Points Pro/Con

Con Pro

Problem/Solution Problem Solution

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!!!!!!!!!!!

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.)

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)

Conclusion Restate problem/solution Conclude with example from introduction.

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

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