Year 12 Film Seminar - Achievement Standard 90374 - 3 Credits
Deliver a presentation using oral and visual language techniques
The
Art of Persuasion
The purpose of this seminar is
to assess you for AS 2.7
(90374). This is an internal AS
and is a summative
assessment. It is NOT a
practice.
Due Date for presentations:
week 8,9 of Term 2.
Cue card word limit : 40 words.
Minimum time of speech: 4
minutes
Maximum time of entire
presentation: 14 minutes
Presentation prepared by: Elise
Macadam
·You will be delivering a 4 minute seminar to your Year 12 English class.
·The goal of the seminar is to persuade your audience to your point of view,
using visual aids as part of your presentation.
·It is up to you to choose a topic. How do you go about choosing a topic?
This can often be the hardest part of the process. Let's look at what some
people have done successfully in the past.
Step 1: Start with something that you already have a general interest in e.g
movies.
Click here to see more from
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm22
45298176/tt1055369
Step 2: Alter the general topic to fit the requirements of this
assessment.
e.g Films
A persuasive examination of films,
for example you could set
out to persuade your
audience that:
·A DIRECTOR'S
particular style leads to
successful films
·A GENRE has typical
characteristics to make it
appeal to certain
audiences
·The same THEME can
be presented in a 'chick
flick' or a 'road movie'.
Step 3. How exactly will you prepare for this
seminar? Remember, the aim of the seminar is to
persuade your audience to your point of view using
visual aids, therefore you need to come up with a
specific main argument or point and create a
powerpoint and/or use film and/or youtube clips.
As an example, if you choose to do a film topic, then
you would write an opinion statement like this, that
you would try to persuade your audience is correct:
"Peter Jackson is a very skillful director"
OR "Horror is a very under-rated genre"
OR "Films based around the theme of love are the
most watchable"
Time and Tasks - the process
1. Choose a topic. Show your topic to your teacher, get
approval, then start working on the seminar.
2. Research the topic. If, for example, you are doing the
topic "Peter Jackson is a very skillful director" you would
watch at least 2 films that have been made by him, taking
notes about how he creates tension, how he uses
camerawork etc.
3. Make use of other sources too, to research your topic: internet, other people, books,
EPIC.
4. Find relevant clips that you will show as part of your seminar. You could also use
power-point, posters, charts or graphs. If you show a clip it is NOT counted as part of
your 4 minutes, but clips should not exceed 10 minutes.
5. Use oratory techniques in the speech and practise ... practise ... practise
6. You will be given two class lessons to work on your seminar, but most it will be done
in your own time.
How to write a persuasive speech: (for more detail see next ppt)
Introduction - Decide on an arresting opening to interest your audience
- state your opinion clearly
Body - Give at least one good reason with explanations and examples
Conclusion - signal that you are finishing
- restate your opinion
- finish with a flourish
Plan to use delivery techniques in your speech
Label these techniques and their desired effect in the transcript of your speech and then
practise them when saying your speech aloud:
·pause
·emphasis
·voice variety (pitch, rhythm, intonation, volume, pace)
·body language (gestures, facial expressions, stance, eye contact, movement)
·visual aids - write down in the transcript when you plan to use them
Plan to use oratory language techniques in your speech
At some point in your speech, use language techniques. Move the correct ones to the
box, while telling the class the effect of using that technique.
sound devices such as alliteration
bold font
low angle shot
pun
analogy
rhetorical questions
repetition
caesura
personal
pronouns
rhyme
humour
evocative adjectives
anecdote
figurative language such as simile
careful diction
dominant image
Class activity:
·Use the teacher's cards which have three unrelated objects written on them
·In pairs, take a card each, then make up a 30-60 second story involving all three
objects.
·Practise delivering your story to each other using delivery techniques and
language techniques.
·To get used to using visual aids, hold up the cards as you mention one of the
items in the story.
·Deliver the story to the class. As each person speaks, note down the techniques
they are using.
Next activity
Read the following one minute speech. It is an
example of how you might deliver this seminar.
Suggest delivery techniques which could be used in the
box on the left. (pauses, emphasis, gestures)
Draw arrows between the language techniques and the speech.
Write the structure headings in too.
Language
Topic: Television is educational
youtube clips, dictionary)
(Visual Aid :
Have you ever been overwhelmed with guilt as you
settle on the settee for another evening glued to the
box? Ever thought of yourself as a couch potato?
Wondered whether to shift the exercycle to a prime
spot in front of the screen? Worried about whether it’s
possible for eyes to suffer from repetitive strain injury?
Friends, relax. In fact, give yourself a pat on the back
for your dedication, for I am here to persuade you that
television is educational, using that educational
masterpiece, (Play first clip) “Ally McBeal”, as an
example.
Techniques
Introduction
·Rhetorical
question to
challenge and
involve
audience.
·Cumulation to
add emphasis.
·Personal
address to
involve
audience.
·Metaphor to
clarify image.
·Imperative for
involvement.
TV programmes will help you extend your vocabulary. Be
truthful, how many of you had any idea of what 'descant'
was before American Idol? (Reveal second clip - Paula
praising the descant used by contestant) If you still
don’t know what descant is, you will now be forced to your
dictionary. (Hold up, “The Dictionary) How educational
is that!
It has therefore been demonstrated conclusively that
television is educational. Not only can you improve your
reading skills by perusing the “TV Guide” and take
valuable exercise by thrusting yourself forward towards
those channel buttons when you’ve misplaced the remote,
you can also develop valuable debating skills as you
discuss with your siblings, logically and calmly, which
television programmes to watch. You are, as I have
clearly stated, being educated, linguistically and socially.
So, my friends, go towards the box’s glorious glow with
pride - it’s got to be good for you.
Body
·Rhetorical
Question to get
audience thinking
·Reference to a
famous name for
validation
·Personal pronoun
to create a
conversational
tone
Conclusion
·Parallel
structure for
emphasis.
·Imperative to
persuade.
·Personal
address to keep
audience
involved.
·Cliché.
Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you:
Communicate ideas
Use appropriate oral and visual language
Present your material
Assessment schedule: 2.7 Deliver a presentation using oral and visual language
techniques
http://www.studyit.org.nz/subjects/english/english2/7/subjectcontent/speech.html
VERY
IMPORTANT: THIS IS A SPEECH. IT IS NOT TO BE
READ. USE CUE CARDS WITH DISCRETION.
Let's go though a step-by-step process
of getting a good speech written. We'll
look at the things that great persuasive
orators have used effectively and the
essential 'steps' that should be built
into the structure of your seminar.
We'll do this by viewing and taking
notes from the powerpoint: Persuasive
Speech explained.
Lesson Planning for speeches
Fr 3-7
Th 2-7
W 1-7
Tu 30-6
M 29-6
Fr 26-6
Th 25-6
W 24-6
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9 SC
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Due on
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