Alrighty, Seraph pointed out to me that people need to know what the events
are! So, here's some info. Hope it's understandable.
Events:
HI: Humorous Interpretation: In HI you act out a humorous script, with more than one character, all by yourself. You perform it, shifting your position so that it looks like your talking to whoever you just were. Moving between the character's is called popping.
DI: Dramatic Interpretation: In the Two Towers, Gollum does a perfect DI. It's the same as HI except everyone's suicidal or has cancer or has been raped or is in love with him but he doesn't love her he loves him or is gay and comes out to his/her parents and they all have to learn to cope. Outsiders to DI, like room keepers in conference or regional tournaments, leave incredible pissed off at the word or incredibly depressed (the ones who do DI and the Judges are used to it). It's like a soap opera in there, but it's really cool at the same time. It can also be weird. Chelsea one raped herself during a DI. Very very very strange.
DDA: Dramatic Duet Acting: The duets are the only ones in which you can move. It's a dramatic one scene skit for two people.
HDA: Humorous Duet Acting: A humorous one scene skit for two people. People who do really well at either of the duos are generally placed in HI or DI the next year.
Prose: The only event in which you don't have to memorize it. You read your selection right out of the book, only most people pretend to read and just have it memorized because it's easier to act it out. Yes, act it out- you need to portray the emotions, the voices, the characters and the situation without moving. And you're holding the book. It's a very fun event, I did it last year.
OC: Original Comedy: Everyone's favorite event. People skip watching finals for their own events to see the finals for OC. People in OC write their own comedic scripts, usually with a narrator, and they act out each of the characters. My friend Matt did one last year about a dysfunctional college news station, a friend Sade put the Parker Brother's on trial with Hang Man and Mr. Pennybags as the lawyers, the monkeys from Barrel of Mokeys as the jurors and Mr. Mustard, the lone surviving hippo from Hungry Hungry Hippos, and a major of a Battleship as witnesses to the Parker Brother's abuses. And Queen Latifah was the judge.
Verse: It's the same as Prose, but with poetry. And you don't have to act it out as much, just get very emotional- the judges like that.
SOS: Special Occasion Speaking: You write a speech on a subject (my friend did Title IX last year; one of my counselors did it on the over abundance of self esteem- very interesting, hehe) and you have to make it humorous.
Radio Speaking: If you're in radio, you're given a packet of news reports, usually about a half and hour long. You have to it down to five minutes, keeping all the important info, and then present it over a radio to a judge. You've got a half hour to cut it down.
Extemp: You spend all your practices all year collecting research information on each of the 8 subjects you're given. Then, at the tournament, you find out which you need to do, and you have 45 minutes to write a speech (with sources) and you have to memorize it. You can use a note card, but the best don't and they get the high scores. The extempers are the smartest ones, and most others are in awe of them. And they think they're geeks, but shhhh.
Impromptu: You're in the room, given a topic, and you have to go up and give a speech about it after, it think 15 seconds of thinking it over.
Oratory: These people write a speech about a subject (like what being a patriot means or child abuse or lack of powerful women in the US whatever you can research) then they memorize the speech and present it every time. The speech is basically like an essay or one you'd do in class.
Dec: Declamatory: Dec is the most interesting of the actual speeches. You find a speech someone used (like, towards a group of students, or to a support group or something) and you present it as if you are the person. Some are really really cool. One a girl did last year was about stress and began with the speaker talking about an experience when she was in High School where she was at a relative's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's doing her calculus homework, and Chuck E. wanted her to come join the fun and for a second she wants to, but then she tried to go back to her homework and Chuck E. slugs her and she turns around and slugs him.
Events:
HI: Humorous Interpretation: In HI you act out a humorous script, with more than one character, all by yourself. You perform it, shifting your position so that it looks like your talking to whoever you just were. Moving between the character's is called popping.
DI: Dramatic Interpretation: In the Two Towers, Gollum does a perfect DI. It's the same as HI except everyone's suicidal or has cancer or has been raped or is in love with him but he doesn't love her he loves him or is gay and comes out to his/her parents and they all have to learn to cope. Outsiders to DI, like room keepers in conference or regional tournaments, leave incredible pissed off at the word or incredibly depressed (the ones who do DI and the Judges are used to it). It's like a soap opera in there, but it's really cool at the same time. It can also be weird. Chelsea one raped herself during a DI. Very very very strange.
DDA: Dramatic Duet Acting: The duets are the only ones in which you can move. It's a dramatic one scene skit for two people.
HDA: Humorous Duet Acting: A humorous one scene skit for two people. People who do really well at either of the duos are generally placed in HI or DI the next year.
Prose: The only event in which you don't have to memorize it. You read your selection right out of the book, only most people pretend to read and just have it memorized because it's easier to act it out. Yes, act it out- you need to portray the emotions, the voices, the characters and the situation without moving. And you're holding the book. It's a very fun event, I did it last year.
OC: Original Comedy: Everyone's favorite event. People skip watching finals for their own events to see the finals for OC. People in OC write their own comedic scripts, usually with a narrator, and they act out each of the characters. My friend Matt did one last year about a dysfunctional college news station, a friend Sade put the Parker Brother's on trial with Hang Man and Mr. Pennybags as the lawyers, the monkeys from Barrel of Mokeys as the jurors and Mr. Mustard, the lone surviving hippo from Hungry Hungry Hippos, and a major of a Battleship as witnesses to the Parker Brother's abuses. And Queen Latifah was the judge.
Verse: It's the same as Prose, but with poetry. And you don't have to act it out as much, just get very emotional- the judges like that.
SOS: Special Occasion Speaking: You write a speech on a subject (my friend did Title IX last year; one of my counselors did it on the over abundance of self esteem- very interesting, hehe) and you have to make it humorous.
Radio Speaking: If you're in radio, you're given a packet of news reports, usually about a half and hour long. You have to it down to five minutes, keeping all the important info, and then present it over a radio to a judge. You've got a half hour to cut it down.
Extemp: You spend all your practices all year collecting research information on each of the 8 subjects you're given. Then, at the tournament, you find out which you need to do, and you have 45 minutes to write a speech (with sources) and you have to memorize it. You can use a note card, but the best don't and they get the high scores. The extempers are the smartest ones, and most others are in awe of them. And they think they're geeks, but shhhh.
Impromptu: You're in the room, given a topic, and you have to go up and give a speech about it after, it think 15 seconds of thinking it over.
Oratory: These people write a speech about a subject (like what being a patriot means or child abuse or lack of powerful women in the US whatever you can research) then they memorize the speech and present it every time. The speech is basically like an essay or one you'd do in class.
Dec: Declamatory: Dec is the most interesting of the actual speeches. You find a speech someone used (like, towards a group of students, or to a support group or something) and you present it as if you are the person. Some are really really cool. One a girl did last year was about stress and began with the speaker talking about an experience when she was in High School where she was at a relative's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's doing her calculus homework, and Chuck E. wanted her to come join the fun and for a second she wants to, but then she tried to go back to her homework and Chuck E. slugs her and she turns around and slugs him.