Voice

We started today by going through the pronunciation of vowels, saying them after one another working on our projection and the clarity of our speech. To warm up our tongues we then did some tongue twisters, futhermore we said them with different exaggerated emotions. I think this will help with our expression and gesture when story telling, to help portray the stories to our audience. Next we started actually creating the start of Little Red Riding Hood, taking everything we had done so far into consideration. We tried to make it captivating from the very start, interacting with the audience and breaking down the fourth wall to get the audience involved. Once we had finished them we then watched a video of a children's presenter and picked out aspects of what she was doing, like eye contact and the tone of her voice. We then went back to what we had created and improved it, taking the new things we had noticed into consideration. As a finishing task we had to each simply say 'Once Upon a Time' in a captivating way that would catch the audiences attention right from the start, which I think is very important to story telling especially when it is to young children, if you don't have their attention from the start the children won't listen to the rest of the story.