Since I am a non-native English speaker, first, I tried to choose a short, simple story with a funny character’s voice. So at first, I chose “The King’s ears are Donkey’s ears”. However, I realized as a child I did not really like the story, so I thought I would not enjoy practicing or telling the story if I choose “The King’s ears are Donkey’s ears”. I could not remember the story I liked when I was young so I visually went through the images I saw in books I read when I was young, and remembered an image of a pig, a tree, a man, and a house carried by the porridge flowing throughout the village. I remembered that I enjoyed reading the story over and over, so I thought I would enjoy telling it and practicing it without getting bored. How …show more content…
Actually, I was already putting some hand motions without realizing that I was doing it when I was practicing telling the story verbally. But I decided which motions I should use and which motions I can just leave naturally or change when I want to. The hand motions I found important or intentionally made were when I describe the location of the pot on the stove, when I ordered the pot to boil or stop, when the little girl run or when she grabbed the pot, and when her mother think what to do to make the pot boils and stops. I also made sure the location of the pot is always the same. Video recording was helpful when deciding and practicing facial expressions. The facial expressions I practiced include sad or crying face, excited face for the girl being thrilled, worried face for the old lady when she asked why the girl is crying, a puzzled face when the mom tried to use the pot, and more. Other motions I found out to be good and appropriate was when the girl and the old lady have a conversation. I put my face down like I am staring down at someone who is sitting down when speaking as the old lady, and I put my face up like I am looking up at someone when I spoke as the little …show more content…
I was scared that I will forget or go blank in the middle of the story, so instead of telling the story just as I had practiced, I found myself rushing and missing many things, including the verbal and non-verbal choices. For verbal choices, I did not have problem remembering the story and some key phrases. However, I forgot to make the characters’ voice more distinct, especially for the cute little girl’s voice. For non-verbal choices, I forgot to look up and down when the girl and the old lady have a conversation, I forgot to make an exciting face for the little girl when she was thrilled to have a pot, and I forgot to repeat a key phrase “bubbling up”. After seeing my own performance, I realized that I used the word “and” too many times, and out of nervousness I mispronounced few words. As I watched myself performing, I remembered myself not being confident for doing the hand motions I practiced. I did not emphasize some of the details very well. I was not being firm and straight in posture, narration, eye contact, and facial expressions. Moreover, I almost forgot what I should say as the second last sentence that I practiced a lot for an ending, and I laughed because I was embarrassed by the fact that I made a mistake at the end after rushing instinctually until the end to avoid making
A fairy tale story can easily establish rhetoric devices in order to enhance its storyline or give some character development. The movie Shrek is about an ogre named Shrek and a donkey named Donkey who is ordered by a prince named Farquaad to rescue a princess named Fiona so he can get his swamp back, but Shrek ends up falling in love with the princess himself (Adamson, Jenson, 2001). The movie Shrek breaks the norms of a typical fairy tales, reversing the role of who would be the hero and who would be the villain. This film adopts rhetoric devices like the four cognitive schemata to construe the perception of the characters towards Shrek, the Social Penetration Theory to show the growing relationships Shrek has with Donkey and Fiona, and verbal
Her hand gestures are still natural, but she uses more gestures to express her emotion and the way she feels to further emphasize her story. Her facial expressions and voice tone is more vibrant and aggressive to further go along with the emotion she’s expressing and to grab the viewer’s attention to detail. She does a good job on being the main focus of her speech by not having any outside sources such as slides, note card, etc. and also keeping her body relaxed and in a natural state by not pacing around, expressing natural movements, and many other things. Throughout the speech, she puts emphasis on the word ‘articulate’ as she uses it various amounts of times to get the viewers to catch on to what she is trying to say and the message she is trying to get across. She does express humor here and there but she doesn’t use it as a focal point to keep her audience engaged, instead, elaborates on a story on why she’s
The short film '' Donkey '' is written by the author Keir Burrows. In my analysis, I will tell about the theme and the characters of the film, and in the end, I will make a conclusion about what I have read. In the short film, David is talking about his upbringing, where he was a kid, a teenager and an adult.
Once there was a woman who told a story. However, she had more than just an entertaining tale to tell. She chose common images that everyone would understand, and she wrapped her story around them, and in this way she was able to teach the people . . .
When I read “Proficiency” by Shannon Nichols I really felt for her. I understood and resonated with her story perfectly, especially when she stated “After I failed the test the first time, I began to hate writing and I started to doubt myself. I doubted my ability and the ideas I wrote about.” (83). After I failed my writing assignment I was so embarrassed and didn’t want to write again but obviously, I had to. I always doubt the things I am going to say or which order I am going to organize the essay in. I try so hard to make sure all my sentences are cohesive and all my ideas connect to each other and the main concept but sometimes it just seems that when I keep messing with one little sentence or paragraph I just makes things worse.
Don’t let your nerves get to you. It was a Friday afternoon in the hot, muggy, and humid auditorium. It was the opening of our new musical, Little Shop of Horrors. All I could see when I looked through the blue curtains of the stage were all the people talking and carrying on about their children. Of course people are going to brag about their kids, it’s acting. Some kids are good, some, not so much. I’m freaking out because this is the first time I’ve been on stage to act in a musical since I was in elementary. I was all nerved up and persistently telling myself, what are these people going to do if I mess up? What if I look funny? I was getting overwhelmed and agitated.
Gently swaying back and forth in an old wooden rocker, I take a break from my journaling. While listening to the creaky hum of the tired oak thumping out a blue song, I think about the art of writing, painting with my words, and wonder what hampers my creative practice. A foreboding sense of unworthiness floats into my consciousness and I ask myself why do I feel this way. Rifling through my thoughts a fog wraps around me like a blanket not for comfort but instead to shield the feelings of inadequacy. I take a deep breath and inhale the reassuring sage scent of our family room. I press on in this process of self-discovery; an old black and white photo sitting on a shelf captures my eye. I see an image of myself as a smiling, confident child, which stirs uneasiness within. Following the muddled whisperings in my mind, I return to the day in the snapshot and consider what comes to pass.
Stavros, a student who studies English as a Second Language (ESL), wrote a short text about his experiences with his cousin’s dog named Suzie. The genre of the text is a personal recount which he has titled ‘My Animal Tale’. A personal recount is a description of an event in which the author is personally involved in. In this case, the student retells his past experiences with his cousins’ dog named Suzie. The text does not seem to be a personal recount in the form of an autobiography or diary entry which are other types of personal recounts, instead, it is more-so a narrative to entertain the reader.
One of my concepts was to put emotion behind my character’s words to make them more realistic and easier to understand. Most people I talked to afterwards understood my characters so I feel I did a good job translating it to the stage. I also helped with finishing my costumes. That helped show a physical image to better picture and understand my characters. It was hard at times to finish costumes because you’d have to get tons of okays first. It was also hard to come up with movement on stage sometimes and to remember to project on show nights. I would, next time, make less costume changes or at least make the costume changes less difficult. Next time I would memorize my lines quicker so I’d have more time time to figure out movements and entrances and exits and such. Those things are important and would make everything more
‘For as long as humans have been around, stories have helped children find meaning in life, and discover their place in the world.’ (Smith, 2007, p.5). Children’s stories are more than entertainment. They give children the opportunity to learn about their own self, by putting themselves in the position of the characters within stories.
In this article, I examine the function of both gaze and gesture in relation to conversational story telling. Conversational storytelling, or reenactments, is an oral narrative that involves performing a new version of an old event in a theatrical way. By examining the transcript of “Chicken Dinner” I address how the coordination amongst speaker and recipients to decipher gestures and use them to understand parts of what is being narrated. The analysis of said instance, suggests that speaker gaze plays a pivotal role in understanding gesture. I further explore the gesticulation typology, participation framework, and the use of eye gaze to understand multimodality in the interaction and how one cannot do without the other.
Initially, my writing was plagued by a series of fundamental issues that compromised my ability to effectively organize ideas and emphasize the primary purpose of a piece of writing. These issues included extensive grammar errors, primarily comma splices, as well as excessive use of language that distorted from the message or explanation I was aiming to convey. I would have described my early writing to be as dull as dishwater. My writing was convoluted, lacking adequate structure and sophisticated word choice.
I listened for the Chorus Director to call my name on stage, I thought back to my first audition ever... It was 4th grade, we were performing Beauty and the Beast. I wanted the role of Babette, more than anything, and I was excited to try out. My audition was great... Or so I thought. I didn’t get the role of Babette, I got some forgettable two-line role. I went home that afternoon and cried my heart out while lying on the kitchen floor. Not knowing how to express my emotions any other way; I vowed never again to try out for anything…
Paying attention to detail and effective writing are two skills that need improvement. I have noticed that when I take on large complex tasks, I am sometimes scattered and missed small details that may have a huge impact on my performance. I also realize that I am an emotional writer. When I am passionate about something, my emotions tend to show too much in my writing which dilutes the mission, goals, and objectives of the
Most of my childhood is filled with memories of unfortunate events. Writing was my outlet to express my feelings about them, but could never formulate my thoughts in a coherent manner. My short stories and poems always had a tendency to begin with one idea and end on a completely different one, though that never bothered me, I simply loved writing, whether it was good or not. However, it wasn't until middle school writing became an actual outlet for my emotions, because my difficulty to comprehend the spectrum of emotions I had throughout the day.