Speech Tips: Story Telling

There are two simple ways you can bring any story to life when giving a speech. Both these tips deal with bringing the characters of your story to life on stage for your audience.

Vocal Variety

When you have two or more characters speaking in your story scene, it helps to define each character by a different tone of voice. For instance, one character can have a loud and booming voice while the other can have a soft and hesitant voice.

Just with the different tones, you convey a lot about the characters in your story. And more importantly, it allows your audience to differentiate which character is speaking.

Gestures

Acting out how a character in your story stands, drinks or does something is the best way to add even more dimension to your story.

Picture this. A speaker acts out one of his characters giving a toast with slow movements and shaking hands? What do you, as an audience member, think about the character just from that simple action? You'd think that the character is either old, ill or a mix of the two.

Think of simple gestures you can use to make each of your story characters vibrant.