The Art Of Cinematic Public Speech | The Magic Museum – Interactive Book By Rick Isaacson

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The Art Of Cinematic Public Speech The Magic
Museum Interactive Book By Rick Isaacson

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An inventive speaker may take a number of
creative avenues to construct an impactful speech
that possesses lasting audience effect.  A
resourceful film student tapped into his
cinematic toolkit to apply a fundamental
principle of effective public speech to heighten
listener involvement.  Using his film training to
engage the audience, he employed the technique of
the second-person camera.  The second-person
camera views a scene from an audience rather than
character vantage point.  This technique replaces
detached observation with the sensation of the
viewer being there. The speaker applied this
cinematic method to his chosen scene, a stone
garden in the Japanese Tea Garden in San
Franciscos Golden Gate Park.  Designing his text
from an audience perspective, here follow
extracts from the speech
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You scan the serene landscape as you pass
through the gates of the Japanese Tea Garden. 
Ahead, you see the line of tourists waiting for
tea and bland fortune cookies under the
thatched-roof tea house.  You watch their awkward
ascents and descents over the steeply arched
footbridge.  Stop laughing at that side-saddled
climber balancing his video cameraToss a water
lily onto the lap of the coppery Buddha.  Slow
your step as you walk the shaded path to the
quiet corner of the garden.  Its empty, you
cheer silently.  But dont you usually sit there
alone, reflecting on the simple patch with little
more than a bed of moss and three jade-green
stones?  With eyes closed you visualize running
your fingers down the slopes of the smooth
stones.  Your shoulders fall and relax.  Your
face feels as cool as the moss.
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This audience-centered approach produced a
consistent reaction.  Peer critiques uniformly
praised the speech for its transporting sense. 
Intending this reaction, the speaker asked
classmates to express what they had visualized. 
He found that his listeners had imagined
complementary detail, the dress and girth of the
bridge climber, the contemplative expression of
the Buddha, the size and shape of the garden
stones.  Adapting the cinematic perspective of
the second-person camera creatively generated
audience involvement, a prerequisite for
effective public speech.
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