Monday 21 January 2013

The Speech

I wasn't really familiar with any of the speeches given for the project, i knew fragments from a few but otherwise was completely ignorant of their contents. Because the project isn't a long one and because i didn't want to get too caught up in the process of choosing a speech i listened to each briefly before promptly deciding that Winston Churchill's we shall fight on the beaches speech was the one whose meaning i understood best so it is his speech that i plan on using this one within my trailer.
After listening to the speech again i began picking out the key phrases that i found the most powerful and what i thought were aspects that could be roughly translated into video.
"Enemy attacked from all sides on the Dunkurk Beaches"
"Fire with cannons on the beaches"
"The sand dunes were the only shelter"
"Dangerous waters and the struggle was fierce"
"crash of thunder miracle of deliverance achieved by valour"
"air force tried hard but they were beaten back and they have payed tenfold"
"defended by the skill of devotion"
"In all the history of war knights of the round table, crusaders part of the past"
"Every Morn brought forth a noble knight"
"Thankfulness escape of our army does not blind us"
"another blow to be struck"
"prove ourselves able to defend ride out the storm of war"- 1min 40 left in the speech at this point (possibly the segment used in my trailer)
"defend to the death native soil"
"growing strength"
"fight in the fields"
"never surrender"
There is a great sense of the patriotic which is congruent with the context of the speech itself- boosting the moral of the british public to ensure a united home front and although it does refer to France and how Britain and France should remain united, there is a great sense of innate britishness. A possible theme to integrate into my trailer.

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