{"id":3863,"date":"2024-12-01T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2024-11-30T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T03:55:14","slug":"join-the-vpm-forensics-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/3863\/student-life\/join-the-vpm-forensics-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the VPM Forensics Team!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you enjoy acting? Public speaking? Speech writing? Looking for an extracurricular with a great community? Join the VPM Forensics Team!<\/span><\/p>\n

Forensics\u2014not the dead body kind\u2014is competitive speech, with eighteen different events in Wisconsin. If there\u2019s any kind of performative speaking that you\u2019re interested in, forensics is sure to provide a great opportunity to practice it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you enjoyed doing Soapbox Speeches in middle school, you\u2019ll love events like Oratory, where you write and perform a speech on a topic of your choice. If you\u2019d like to write a more educational speech, then Informative Speaking is a great category\u2014you get ten minutes and visual aids to discuss a topic. Of course, if ten minutes feels a little long, you can always go for Expository Speaking, which is similar to Info, but caps out at five minutes. There\u2019s also Moments in History, an event where you talk about a specific event or person within a given time frame. The time periods for this year are the 1940\u2019s and\/or the 1840-1900, so if there\u2019s a really interesting event or person who cropped up in those times, this is a great way to talk about them!<\/span><\/p>\n

But if giving the same speech all the time sounds like a bore to you, you\u2019ll probably love the limited prep events! These events include Extemporaneous Speaking (where you have half an hour to prepare a seven minute speech on a random, usually current events-related topic), Impromptu Speaking (where you\u2019ll have five minutes to both prepare and perform a speech based on a totally random prompt, which range from quotes to celebrities to household objects), and Radio (where you\u2019ll have half an hour to create a precisely timed radio broadcast style speech from random sources).<\/span><\/p>\n

On the acting side of things, there\u2019s events like Solo Acting Humorous and Solo Acting Serious, where you perform a ten minute long piece from a play, book, musical\u2014you name it!–with the category depending on the overall tone. There\u2019s also Storytelling, where you choose three different stories aligned with predetermined themes\u2014this year\u2019s are a story about unlikely heroes, a pourquoi story, and a story involving a clothing accessory\u2014to perform. If doing all that alone sounds like a little much, you might like Duo Interpretation, where you get to work with a partner, or Play Acting, where you can work with anywhere from two to five people to perform a short, propless play from memory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, if memorization sounds intimidating, there\u2019s also black book events, where you have the script in a binder with you, and can even use it as a prop! These events include Group Interpretation, Interpretation of Poetry, Interpretation of Prose, and Farrago. Group Interpretation is fairly self-explanatory\u2014you and up to four others assemble and present a piece. In Poetry, you get to create a program of as many or as few poems as you would like\u2014you can even perform your own original works! Prose is similar, except you use works of prose to assemble your program. Farrago, on the other hand, is a program consisting of two or more different types of material being woven together around one central theme. For example, you could talk about the human cost of natural disasters using poetry written about it, news articles, and written accounts from survivors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019d prefer to write your own piece to act out, there\u2019s also Special Occasion Speaking, where you write and perform a speech that fits into one of the year\u2019s categories. This year\u2019s categories are especially good\u2014you can write a welcome speech to a summer camp, a motivational speech from a coach or advisor, a villain monologue, or a scholarship speech. Some great examples of S.O.S speeches from the team last year are an apology speech from Ms. O\u2019Leary\u2019s cow for starting the Great Chicago Fire (by Mable Miller), and a wedding toast from a best man after the bride robbed the venue blind and disappeared into international waters (by Daniel Mueller). It\u2019s a very unique category, and a great way to really flex your creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n

If any of these categories piqued your interest, consider attending one of VPM\u2019s Drama, Debate, and Forensics club meetings (on Mondays during lunch in Theater 300!), joining the Google Classroom<\/a>, and signing up for coaching with one of our excellent coaches. Joining the team is possible at practically any point, but the season is starting soon and preparing for an event takes time. If you\u2019d like to participate, now\u2019s the best time to start!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you enjoy acting? Public speaking? Speech writing? Looking for an extracurricular with a great community? Join the VPM Forensics Team! Forensics\u2014not the dead body kind\u2014is competitive speech, with eighteen different events in Wisconsin. If there\u2019s any kind of performative speaking that you\u2019re interested in, forensics is sure to provide a great opportunity to practice…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":3864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,7],"tags":[253],"staff_name":[202],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs","category-student-life","tag-december-24","staff_name-amalia-weix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"staff_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_name?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}