1. What are the 2 things the audience must be able to do in order to understand/ appreciate your presentation?
See it
2. Hear it

2. Training Volunteers to do clear and articulate presenting
Ronn Kistler
WKU Hardin Planetarium Coordinator

3. How to make sure they hear you:
Volume
Diction

4. 4 Take-away Principles Fill your space Slow down Separate your words
Spit your consonants

5. Warm-ups:
Stretch your face
Stretch your tongue
Stretch your lips

6. Posture Lift from the top of the head / sternum Roll shoulders
Push down on hips

7. Breath goes into:
Diaphragm
Rib cage
Upper chest

8. Exercises:
Blowing out candles
Panting
Hissing

9. Form an “O”: Beginning of a yawn
Open the throat !!
Form an “O”: Beginning of a yawn
Exercise:
Deep tone “Ooohh.”

10. Volume:
Fill the space.

11. Volume Levels = size of the space
10. Loud as you can speak without yelling
9. Large auditorium or planetarium (200 people)
8. Small auditorium or planetarium (80 people)
7. Classroom size space
6. Tour group, people.
5. Normal speaking volume
4. Small intimate group, just under normal volume.
3. You and the people on either side.
2. You and the person right next to you.
1. You are the only one who can hear yourself.
0. No sound

12. Move the mouth, lips, tongue
Diction
Warmup exercise
Move the mouth, lips, tongue

13. Consonants
Unvoiced Voiced

14. Consonants
Plosives: on the lips
unvoiced – P voiced - B

15. Consonants Labio-dental stop: tongue hits the soft palate
unvoiced – T voiced - D

16. Consonants Glottal stop: back of tongue & glottis
unvoiced – K voiced - G

17. Consonants Plosives: on the lips
unvoiced – P voiced - B
Labio-dental stop: tongue hits the soft palate
unvoiced – T voiced - D
Glottal stop: back of tongue & glottis
unvoiced – K voiced - G

18. PPP - BBB - TTT - DDD – KKK - GGG
Diction
Exercises
B - T - G
PPP - BBB - TTT - DDD – KKK - GGG

19. Diction
1. Slow down
2. Separate your words

20. Resonance
Exercise
How wonderful it is to sit in the Sun, And when the Sun is gone, And the rains have begun, How wonderful the rain sounds.

21. Questions Strategies

22. Training Volunteers to do clear and articulate presenting
Ronn Kistler
WKU Hardin Planetarium Coordinator