The method includes:
- Make notes on the transcript to indicate pauses, changes in pitch, and other speech patterns
- Read lines into Google Translate or Google Docs to check word level pronunciation
- Listen/Repeat (sentence by sentence)
- Listen/Whisper Adjust playback speed if necessary.
- Listen/ Shadow Read (turn the volume down)
- Record yourself. Listen. Circle parts that need the most improvement.
Practice those parts. - Try anything else you think will be helpful
Assignment: Practice 'speech mimicking' one of the scenes below or choose your own scene. Share your audio or video recording of that scene by posting it to the Band or emailing it to bufslebow@gmail.com by May 18.
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From Erin Brockovich
Oh, see, now that pisses me off. First of all — since the demur, we have more than four hundred plaintiffs…and “let’s be honest”, we all know there are more out there. They may not be the most sophisticated people, but they do know how to divide, and twenty million dollars isn’t shit when you split it between them. (Erin —)Second of all — these people don’t dream about being rich. They dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they’ll have to have a hysterectomy at the age of 20, like Rosa Diaz — a client of ours — or have their spine deteriorate like Stan Bloom. Another client of ours.
So before you come back here with another lame-ass offer, I want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth, Mr. Walker – or what you might expect someone to pay you for your uterus, Miss Sanchez — then you take out your calculator and multiply that number by a hundred. Anything less than that is a waste of our time.
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Representative Marcus (from Scandal)
— Mmm Um, there's something my grandmother used to do...whenever I'd start dating someone. I would tell her his name and then she would say, Oh! What part in town does he live in?
That was her way... of asking if my boyfriend was white. Oh yeah, my grandmother was an out-and-out racist. So I know what prejudice looks like.it's not about "experience" James. It's about gender.
Reston's saying I don't have the balls to be president and he means that literally.It's offensive. It's offensive to me and to all the women whose votes he's asking for
.— Uh uh, I'm sorry. Are you...Are you saying the governor is sexist?
— Yes! Yes, I am. < What the hell is she doing?! >— And it's not just governor Reston speaking in code about gender...It's everyone, yourself included. <Excuse me?>
— The only reason we're doing this interview in my house is because *you* requested it.This was your idea and yet here you are thanking *me* for inviting you into my"lovely home."That's what you say to the neighbour lady who baked you chocolate chip cookies.This... pitcher of iced-tea isn't even mine. It's what your producer said here.Why? Same reason you called me "a real-life Cinderella story."It reminds people that I'm a woman without using the word. For you, it's an angle, I get that. And I'm sure you think it's innocuous. But guess what? It's not.
— Congresswoman Marcus
— Don't interrupt me when I'm speaking
— I have to stop this. — Don't you dare.
— You're promoting stereotypes, James.You're advancing this idea that women are weaker than men.You're playing right into the hands of Reston and into the hands of every other imbecile who thinks a woman isn't fit to be Commander in Chief.Yes governor, I'm talking about you. Seven years, I served in the United States Army,which is seven more years than governor Reston ever served. A fact you conveniently omitted from my intro. How about,"soldier"? "Lieutenant"?
— Mmm Um, there's something my grandmother used to do...whenever I'd start dating someone. I would tell her his name and then she would say, Oh! What part in town does he live in?
That was her way... of asking if my boyfriend was white. Oh yeah, my grandmother was an out-and-out racist. So I know what prejudice looks like.it's not about "experience" James. It's about gender.
Reston's saying I don't have the balls to be president and he means that literally.It's offensive. It's offensive to me and to all the women whose votes he's asking for
.— Uh uh, I'm sorry. Are you...Are you saying the governor is sexist?
— Yes! Yes, I am. < What the hell is she doing?! >— And it's not just governor Reston speaking in code about gender...It's everyone, yourself included. <Excuse me?>
— The only reason we're doing this interview in my house is because *you* requested it.This was your idea and yet here you are thanking *me* for inviting you into my"lovely home."That's what you say to the neighbour lady who baked you chocolate chip cookies.This... pitcher of iced-tea isn't even mine. It's what your producer said here.Why? Same reason you called me "a real-life Cinderella story."It reminds people that I'm a woman without using the word. For you, it's an angle, I get that. And I'm sure you think it's innocuous. But guess what? It's not.
— Congresswoman Marcus
— Don't interrupt me when I'm speaking
— I have to stop this. — Don't you dare.
— You're promoting stereotypes, James.You're advancing this idea that women are weaker than men.You're playing right into the hands of Reston and into the hands of every other imbecile who thinks a woman isn't fit to be Commander in Chief.Yes governor, I'm talking about you. Seven years, I served in the United States Army,which is seven more years than governor Reston ever served. A fact you conveniently omitted from my intro. How about,"soldier"? "Lieutenant"?
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