Tellin it the Way Actors Do

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Tellin it the Way Actors Do

• Presented by
• Kartik Jevaji and
• Aaron Marks

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Goals

• Turning you fear into an advantage
• How you can apply actors techniques for seeming
  real and spontaneous
• How to structure and clarify your message
• How to sell your message
• How to adapt all these techniques to all public
  situations

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Personal Introductions

• Kartik Jevaji
• 15 years old
• 10th grade
• Have done many presentations in the past, and
  will continue to do many more

• Aaron Marks
• He is 15 years old
• He is a sophomore
• He has presented numerous times, including in
  front of business professionals, the North
  Allegheny Superintendent and her staff, and the
  Pennsylvania Association of Student Councils
  executive board

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Icebreaker

• Get into a group of three people (people you
  dont already know)
• Everyone is given one collective minute to make a
  speech about themselves
• Speeches are at least one minute long and are
  about you (name, age, school, etc.)
• Present the speeches to group members

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Topic Introduction

• Everything involves acting
• In this workshop, you will learn how to
• transform you fear of failing into an advantage
• can apply actors techniques for seeming real and
  spontaneous on stage to the task of public
  speaking.
• structure and clarify your message
• connect emotionally with an audience, and
  increase their sense that they are getting a
  glimpse of the real you.
• sell you message and persuade your audience to
  take action.
• adapt all of these techniques to any public
  situation.
• You need public speaking for various situations
  in life. Public speaking skills are used in job
  interviews, telephone conversations, sales
  spiels, and introductions.
• Sometimes we are called upon TO PERFORM the role
  of public speaking.
• You will learn how to adapt all of these
  techniques to any public situation.
• The speakers include Winston Churchill, Franklin
  Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Martin
  Luther King Jr.

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Goal 1Turning fear into an advantage

• Winning an audience has benefits that are better
  than fear
• You can turn fear into positive energy if you can
  control it
• To help control fear, do breathing techniques.

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Breathing Techniques

• Practicing the vowel sounds ah, eh, ee,
  aw, and ooh.
• PATAKA PETEKE PITIKI PETEKE PATAKAPAWTAWKAW
  POOTOOKOO PAWTAWKAW PATAKA
• Same vowel sounds, but is more complicated to say
  and requires more practice. It is by the same
  token more effective, however.
• MANALA THAVAZA MENELE THEVEZEMINILI THIVIZI MELE
  THEVEZE MANALA THAVAZAMAWNAWLAW THAWVAWZAW
  MOONOOLOOTHOOVOOZOO MAWNAWLAWTHAWVAWZAWMANALATHA
  VAZA

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Goal 2Acting is what you do

• We all act in life
• We all play different roles, either as a son or
  daughter, or a friend or sibling.
• If you are awake, you are acting.
• When we have to speak to an audience, we must
  assume the role of a public speaker, and do our
  best to seem real and captivate the audience.

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Tips on Speeches

• Never write the whole speech out
• Just tell your story
• Never wing it
• Prepare and practice

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Goal 3Checklist for Speeches

• Purpose
• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade
• Message
• One simple point
• What am I trying to communicate

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Goal 3Checklist (contd)

• Editor
• Message becomes the filter
• Story
• Relate personal experiences
• Picture
• Try to tell story to create an image in the
  listeners mind.

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Goal 4Sell your message

• Preliminaries
• Playing the actions
• What am I doing from moment to moment?
• Is that serving my purpose?
• Setting the scene
• Create
• Emotion
• Drama
• Be real
• Tell em what you told em

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Goal 5Adapting techniques

• You must know what works because youve been in
  the audience
• You know what is boring and what is entertaining.

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The History of Speeches

• Many good speeches
• Winston Churchill
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• John F. Kennedy
• Martin Luther King Jr.

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Some Concluding Words About Words

• Remember never write a speech.
• Not only is acting is what you do, but it is what
  you do.
• Fear has certain advantages, and if you can
  control your fear, it can become positive energy
  for your presentation.
• Use the step-by-step, detailed guides for
  preparing your speech adequately and for
  preparing a persuasive speech that are included
  in your packet.
• Please take a look at your packet there are
  even more details that will help you.
• As Winston Churchill said, Now, this is not the
  end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
  But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.