Mr kelly. Story telling

Over the past week we have been studying storytelling, and how you story tell to younger children using techniques, i found it very difficult to start with, for example, when you are telling a story to someone who is very young, you have to do everything much bigger, for example pronunciation of words has to be way over the top so that they understand everything thats going on, and to remember to not use words that are too long or confusing, so we basically had to stand in line and over pronounce the vowles. A lot of my classmates found this difficult but we all managed to pull it off after a while 

I learnt that its all about keeping the audience, (in this case children) engaged, which is very difficult because children are quite easily distracted. so over the past few lessons we have learnt how to be more over the top, we worked also on movement skills swell, and how when we are acting we have to really go into detail with our facial expressions.

We were split up into two groups, then told to act out us telling the red riding hood story, and mr kelly after watching our devised pieces sat down with us and put on a cbeebies nighttime story from one of the professional story tellers, this really helped me to understand how using specific techniques keeps younger audiences engaged. It actually kept me engaged throughout the whole story! despite it being the most simple story ever!

After watching this video it helped me to understand that overacting is important when it comes to telling stories to younger audiences