Hey, so I've got to write a study guide in the form of a visual speech on the relevance of Maus (my ORT) to Module A: Experience through Language - Distinctively Visual. I'm not very creative and was wondering if firstly you had any suggestions on how to engage my audience (English teachers). I'm also looking for a creative motif that I can use throughout my whole speech that relates to this module and/or Maus. I personally think something that gradually gets easier to visualise would work as I want my audience to also continue to see that Maus is a perfect example for distinctively visual and The Shoe-horn Sonata (my prescribed text). I'll attach my task below if you didn't understand my explanation or want any further details. Thanks in advance
Hey 12070, there's a few possibilities here
Firstly, my sister did a speech on the concept of family in her English texts. She put some black and white images of family on the screen, and over the course of her 12 minute speech the pictures slowly came to colour as her argument was that each composer colours in "family" in a different way, and upon initial reading you'd hardly recognise it.
In Ext 1, I did a speech on texts and whenever I used quotes from the text, I'd put them up on the board behind me as well so that they could really resonate with my audience.
Do you think you want to engage both the language, like I did, and images, like my sister did? Or are you more keen on balancing it out so that the speech is completely dependent on the presentation behind you? Both work. My sister and I did our presentations in a way that the material supported our speech, rather than MADE the speech. But there's nothing wrong with doing this otherwise, unless your teacher has said not to. What do you think?