Forensics By: Mia L

Table Of Contents Chapter 1 -Introduction Chapter 2 -Events Chapter 3 -What others think Chapter 4 -Performance Tips Chapter 5 -Competition Chapter 6 -Rules and Judges Scores Chapter 7 - Awards Chapter 8 - Conclusion Chapter 9 - Glossary

Introduction Imagine your performing for a group of people. You performed the same thing three times that’s around six minutes long. Your throat is aching from talking. It all comes down to this, awards, could make or break your performing career. All of your Team are getting awards, will you? Congratulations! You just placed finals, and completed your first forensics tournament. Forensics is acting, speech, and debate, all rolled into one. In this book you will learn all about forensics.

Chapter 2: Events In forensics there are two main types of events, interpatation(in-terp-a-ta-tion) and Public Address. First we will learn about interpataion also known as interp, followed by Public Address events. Interp: Interp cadories is more of acting then debate. These events include: Storytelling the most known where you act out a children's book. There's also Duo, Multiple, Prose, Protre, DI, ect. Multiple is least known because it’s a lot of work, so most schools do not do it espally in middle school. When they do its very fun. Its where you tell a piece with three or more people. Kind of like Duo, but duo is only two people. Public Address: Public Address is more debate then acting. These events include: Sales, Oratory, Impromptu, info, ect. The most poplar one is sales its when you try to convince your judge to buy something. The least known event is Impromptu its like speech and debate but improve.

Chapter 3: What Others Think I have interviewed different people about forensics they all mainly knew about the events that you learned about in chapter two. Here is the summary on how they answered. The beginner (no experience) They had simple answers and got some right but most answers wrong. The Intermediate(one year of experience) They had a little longer answers got about most right and some wrong. The Advanced(two years of experience) They got all answers right, with long answers. They clearly knew what they were talking about. This shows that the most experience you have the more you know about forensics. `

Chapter 4 Performance Tips As you learned about what others think, it proves that the more experienced people use these performance tips. Here is some tips that will make you be ranked good: 1.In your intro, look your judge in the eye. It shows of a strong performer. 2. Use voices and blocking for each character. 3. Speak clearly and enunciate. 4. Be loud and have voice projection also make sure everyone in the room can here you. 5. Be confident in yourself and your forensics piece. 6. Try to make the judges sad in sad parts of your piece and glad and joyful in happy parts of your performance. If you use these tips you should be great at a competition.

Chapter 5 At a competition an important thing is to remember the performance tips you just learned. Here is a day in the life of a forensics tournament. As I arrive at Wane State for my forensics tournament in stomach is tingling. When we go to the meeting at the begging of the tournament, my stomach feels like its storing butterflies. Then it becomes my first round, I draw my order for who goes first and go last. I watch the other pieces and then its my turn. The second round get to go fifth out of six. I burst out of energy again when its my turn. I think this was my best round! We have a short and fun lunch break. Then its my last round. I go after the first two. I am a little tired but still do very good. We then have another little fun break. Now its awards. My event gets called next to last. They were calling 3 rd and 4 th place and my name was not called. Was thinking I would not be called like last time and would be so sad. Then they called my name for 3 rd place our of 36 people! Now I would be so exited to go to school for forensics to see what place I got for each round and what others got too. I was beaming, grinning ear to ear. My friends and family were so happy for me. I got 2 nd place in my first and second round and in my third round I got first place! Double Entering Some people decide to double enter. You do six rounds instead of three. You do two different pieces and sometimes two different events. That’s a lot!

Chapter 5 and 6 Mackinaw Tournament The mackinaw competition is very hard. Middle scholars and high scholars compete against each other. There is whole new events, they include: imagery sales, ted talks declamation, mini multiple, triathalon,ect. Chapter 6 Rules and Judges scores Like you learned in chapter five when you compete these are the rules and judges scorings. The judges rank you out of four even if there is more than four people in the round. You get a smaller rank out of 100. So if your first you will get a 1, 100. If your last you will get a 4, 96. when your performing there not just ranking you they also write critqes on a piece of paper. So then after the competition you can see

Margolis, Amelia. "The Beginner." Personal interview. 20 Apr