Eng 10 LM3

SPEECH AND
THEATER ARTS
- Ms. Regine Ferrer
✍ The Speech Objectives
✍ The Audience and
Context for the Speech
✍ Speech Content and
Structure
✓ Before the Speech
✓ The Speech Opening
✓ The Speech Body
✓ The Speech Conclusion
1. Nervousness is normal. Practice
and prepare!
2. Know your audience. Your
speech is about them, not you.
3. Organize your material in the
most effective manner to attain
your purpose.
4. Watch for feedback and adapt
to it.
5. Let your personality come
through.
6. Use humor, tell stories, and use
effective language.
7. Don’t read unless you have to.
Work from an outline.
8. Use your voice and hands
effectively. Omit nervous
gestures.
9. Grab attention at the beginning,
and close with a dynamic end.
10. Use audiovisual aids wisely.
✍ Clarity
✍ Definiteness of Message
✍ Conciseness
✍ Interesting
✍ Informal Touch
✍ Considering the Audience
✍ Speaking Slowly
✍ Free from Emotions
✍ Use of Body Language
✍ Ensuring Participation
of Audience
✍ Articulation
✍ Modulation
✍ Stage Presence
✍ Facial Expressions,
Gestures, and Movement
Common Sins in the Use

of Facial Expressions
✘ Poker Face
✘ Mugger
✘ Facial Contortionist
Common Sins in the Use of
Movements
✘ Statue/Stone
✘ Pacer
✘ Swayer
✍ Audience Rapport
Stage Fright
- is a fear of speaking in front
of a group of people. This is
often called “performance
anxiety”. Actors call it “flop
sweat”. Psychologists call it
“topophobia”.
Vocal Delivery
- includes components of speech
delivery that relate to your voice.
These include rate, volume, pitch,
articulation, pronunciation, and
fluency.
✍ Rate
- refers to how fast or slow
you speak.
✍ Volume
- refers to how loud or soft
your voice is.
✍ Pitch
- refers to how high or low a
speaker’s voice.
✍ Articulation
- refers to the clarity of
sounds and words we produce.
✍ Pronunciation
- refers to speaking words
correctly, including the proper
sounds of the letters and the
proper emphasis..
✍ Fluency
- refers to the flow of your
speaking.
Two Main Problems:

✎ Fluency hiccups
✎ Verbal fillers
Personal Appearance
Visual Aids and

Delivery
THEATER ARTS
- a building or space in which a
performance may be given
before an audience.
- refers to performances of
plays, or to a career of
performing in plays.
- a prose or verse composition
presenting in dialogue and
action a story involving conflict
or contrast of characters,
intended to be performed on
the stage.
• Playwright - The initial creator
of the script, scenario, or plan, as
outlined above.
- “One who writes plays”.
- are what they want their audience
to take away from them.
- A theme evokes a universal human
experience and can be stated in one
word or short phrase.
- The events of a play; the story as
opposed to the theme; what happens
rather than what it means.
- These are the people presented in
the play that are involved in the
perusing plot.
- The word choices made by the
playwright and the enunciation of the
actors of the language.
- Music can encompass the rhythm of
dialogue and speeches in a play or
can also mean the aspects of the
melody and music compositions as
with musical theatre.
- The spectacle in the theatre can
involve all of the aspects of scenery,
costumes, and special effects in a
production.
- derives from the Greek word, “tragedos”,
which translates as “song of the goat.”
- A type of drama in which characters undergo
suffering or calamity and which usually ends
with a death. A sad or catastrophic event
causing suffering or death.
- A light-hearted drama that is played for
laughs.
- Comedy should have the view of a
“comic spirit” and is physical and
energetic. It is tied up in rebirth and
renewal.
- A play or film characterized by
exaggeratedly emotional or
overdramatic scenes.
- It is non-judgmental and ends with no
absolutes. It focuses on character
relationships and shows society in a state
of continuous flux. There is a mix of
comedy and tragedy side by side in these
types of plays.
- The Technical Director (TD) is responsible
for making sure that all technical aspects
of a show are carried out in a timely
fashion.
- The Set Designer takes a concept drawing
or description from the Stage Director and
produces a detailed design.
- The Master Carpenter turns a completed
set design into the actual set pieces
needed for a show.
- The Lighting Designer develops a lighting
plan based on the set design.
- The Master Electrician makes the lighting

plan happen.
- The Light Board Operator is responsible
for controlling the lights during the show.
- The Costume Designer finds, makes,

and/or coordinates costumes for the cast.
- The Makeup Artist is responsible for
ensuring that we have the proper makeup
for the cast, and that they know how to
use it.
- The Choreographer is responsible for
designing dances that may be needed and
teaching them to the cast.
- The Props Manager is responsible for locating

anything that will need to be carried by
actors on stage.
- The Run Crew performs set changes and
other miscellaneous tasks as necessary
during the show.
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SPEECH AND

Common Sins in the Use

Two Main Problems:

Visual Aids and

- The Master Electrician makes the lighting

- The Costume Designer finds, makes,

- The Props Manager is responsible for locating

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