Sunday, April 4, 2010

"One Small Step For Man..."

_ Who is speaking?
_ Why was/is the speech important to society?
_ Why do you feel in is important or interesting?
_ What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech?
_ What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses...
_ What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or ruhed?
_ Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words?
_ How does it make you feel?
_ How do imagine that the audience felt?
_ Could there be another interpretation of the speech?
_ Write/find a short bio, of the person giving the speech.

This "speech" consists of Neal Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin. This speech is important to society because it was the first time anyone had ever walked on the moon and he was an American. The timing was also important because of what was going on in the World with the Cuban Missile crisis and the space race. It is important for obvious reasons but I think it is interesting because I think it is amazing we are able to have this video considering technology at the time and the whole being literally in space, specifically the moon. The mens voices sound very determined. They also seem calm and ready to get their job done. There is also some anticipation in their voices. There are several pauses throughout the speech; also some loud beeps. Both of these elements have a lot of possibilities for adding motion. There are also some parts that are difficult to understand so having the text on screen will help the viewer know what is being said. I think the most important part is obviously when Armstrong says "One small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind." The audience probably felt pride, relief, happiness, amazement.

Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer,university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the Moon. His first spaceflightwas aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, for which he was the command pilot, becoming the first U.S. civilian to fly in space. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott. Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969. On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent 2½ hours exploring while Michael Collins remained in orbit in the Command Module. Armstrong is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

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