18/09/17
Lily's script.
Lily's script.
Scenario: 2 students no longer at the same
school:
Tom: Alice!
Alice: (turning
her head) Oh… hello (unsure)
Tom: How are you?
Alice: Grand, you?
Tom: Good actually… I haven’t seen you in
ages
Alice: No, you haven’t. (angrier tone)
Tom: (Hesitantly)
Are you sure you’re okay? How’s Rebecca?
Alice: I said I’m fine! (very snappy)
Tom: Okay…sorry
(Pause)
Tom: So… Rebecca? How is she now?
Alice: (faster pace) I don’t know, and I don’t want to
know. Why are you talking to me after everything that’s happened! What would
make you think I would want to talk to you? (pause) I suggest forgetting about me and
more importantly Rebecca, (pause) she’s already forgotten about all of us, and what
we did.
Tom: You mean, what you did.
Bold: Slower pace
Red: My annotations
Red: My annotations
I decided to keep my first three lines to a slow pace to show that Alice was unsure of Tom as they clearly haven't seen each other since the incident between them and Rebecca. This is also emphasised by the pause between "oh" and "hello". I chose to make the line "I said I’m fine!" very snappy to build tension between the characters after taking on an angrier tone to clearly convey that there is an underlying issue between them. I think this was effective because if I'd said that line in a calmer tone, it wouldn't make sense for Tom's character to have to apologise afterwards. I chose a faster pace for my final line because my angry tone developed into emotional frustration as I believe that Alice's character didn't want to remember the incident, and a sudden change in tone and pace effectively shows that this incident took quite an emotional toll on her and Tom bringing it to the surface provoked her emotional memory. I believe that my choice to use two pauses within this line was also effective because they ensured that all of the line was clear as at a fast pace some of the detail is easily lost. This line needed to be clear and have a lot of emphasis because it is the most pivotal moment within the dialogue.
02/10/17
The Archers- Radio play:
Exaggeration on 'Unless' shows that this is more of an after-thought.
Use of a monotonous tone of voice on 'Such a pity' shows that Lynda cares little about her husbands problems in this scene.
Sterner tone of voice on 'Yes. If you want to get off.' helps to convey Lynda's authoritative standing in the community.
28/11/17
Vocal techniques in Presentations
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Opinion piece on a serious, current news story. Political, environmental, social issues.
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Plastics
Right now, an estimated 12.7 million tonnes of plastic – everything from plastic bottles and bags to microbeads – end up in our oceans each year. That’s a truck load of rubbish a minute.
Travelling on ocean currents this plastic is now turning up in every corner of our planet – from Cornish beaches, to uninhabited Pacific islands. It is even being found trapped in Arctic ice.
Our oceans are slowly turning into a plastic soup and the effects on ocean life are chilling. Big pieces of plastic are choking and entangling turtles and seabirds and tiny pieces are clogging the stomachs of creatures who mistake it for food, from tiny zooplankton to whales. Plastic is now entering every level of the ocean food chain and even ending up in the seafood on our plates.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Greenpeace is campaigning to end the flow of plastic into our oceans.
We are calling on big corporations to act to reduce their plastic footprint – and stop producing excessive plastic packaging that is designed to be used once then thrown away.
We are also calling on governments to act to tackle this problem, by creating closed loop systems that allow us to recover and reuse materials rather than waste them.
It’s not too late – if we act together now we can protect the world’s precious oceans for future generations.
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Opinion piece that is fun, focused on entertainment or human interest.
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WHAT'S the weirdest thing you've ever Google searched?
While many of us have a potentially cringeworthy Google search history, our strange ponderings likely have nothing on this bizarre collection.
Here are some of the most weird, wonderful and just plain mad search suggestions that have ever appeared on Google.
You might need to call a vet, if "our pet's heads are falling off..." Or maybe consider buying a goldfish in future...
Maybe dating has never been your forte and you find yourself googling "are there people who are sexually attracted to pokemon?" Cosplay anyone?
Or one very questionable question that really shouldn’t be questioned on a public question engine.... THAT is posing the question "Why does my mum turn me on?" to google. Yep. Don't question it.
Perhaps we've gone a while back into your history and stumbled upon something you searched when you accidently drank a little too many voddy and cokes and banged your best mate when you were 14 and found yourself googling "When does my virginity grow back?" At 2am in the morning... that's also probably why you failed your science GCSE.
And maybe in the same alcohol-fueled searching sesh you were beginning to wonder "why do I always lose my black friend in the dark?" I recommend googling how to disable google. Because you need to quit while you're ahead.
What about the time you googled, "How come when I talk to girls on Facebook they don’t reply back to me?", Maybe because you confused google for your tinder bio and actually found out that you might need therapy because it's not normal that" I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur" and then shared the results of this search on Facebook...
So if you’ve ever questioned what you're about to question, just remember some of the ludicrous things our god that is google as seen!
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Serious article:
For this script I kept to a neutral pace, to ensure all detail was heard and took regular pauses to allow a listener to take in and process the information. I also exaggerated certain words, such as 'chilling', to make this article more impactful.
Fun article:
For this script I kept to a fast pace as this script has a funny and light-hearted theme. I also used pauses to highlight cringe-worthy moments as well as contrasting really long rambling sentences with short one liners, to keep an interesting flow to the presentation.
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