Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
MARCH 26TH ASSIGNMENT (late.. sorry)
who is speaking? why is the speech important?
Len Spencer is speaking, and it is the first recorded promotional message.
what is the emotion, mode, tone, feeling and personality of the speech?
There is a very lighthearted feel to the tone of his voice. The emotion is happiness, and fun. This machine is supposed to make life easier. The speech is basically the edison phonograph selling itself to the listener.
what is loud, stressed, soft, paused, emphasized?
The whole speech is pretty loud because it is meant for grabbing attention since its a commercial. Len Spencer is acting as the Edison Phonograph, and the Edison Phonograph talks about itself the whole time, so I emphasized "I" throughout the entire speech.
How does it make you feel? the audience feel?
I think the speech is kind of funny sounding, just because things like commercials have come so far. The speech seems to lighten moods.
The Edison Phonograph, created by Thomas Edison, was a highly original invention which came about in the late 1800's. The phonograph was intended by Edison for the following:
who is speaking? why is the speech important?
Len Spencer is speaking, and it is the first recorded promotional message.
what is the emotion, mode, tone, feeling and personality of the speech?
There is a very lighthearted feel to the tone of his voice. The emotion is happiness, and fun. This machine is supposed to make life easier. The speech is basically the edison phonograph selling itself to the listener.
what is loud, stressed, soft, paused, emphasized?
The whole speech is pretty loud because it is meant for grabbing attention since its a commercial. Len Spencer is acting as the Edison Phonograph, and the Edison Phonograph talks about itself the whole time, so I emphasized "I" throughout the entire speech.
How does it make you feel? the audience feel?
I think the speech is kind of funny sounding, just because things like commercials have come so far. The speech seems to lighten moods.
The Edison Phonograph, created by Thomas Edison, was a highly original invention which came about in the late 1800's. The phonograph was intended by Edison for the following:
- Letter writing and all kinds of dictation without the aid of a stenographer.
- Phonographic books, which will speak to blind people without effort on their part.
- The teaching of elocution.
- Reproduction of music.
- The "Family Record"--a registry of sayings, reminiscences, etc., by members of a family in their own voices, and of the last words of dying persons.
- Music-boxes and toys.
- Clocks that should announce in articulate speech the time for going home, going to meals, etc.
- The preservation of languages by exact reproduction of the manner of pronouncing.
- Educational purposes; such as preserving the explanantions made by a teacher, so that the pupil can refer to them at any moment, and spelling or other lessons placed upon the phonograph for convenience in committing to memory.
- Connection with the telephone, so as to make that instrument an auxiliary in the transmission of permanent and invaluable records, instead of being the recipient of momentary and fleeting communication.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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