Reading Aloud Isn’t Just for Books
What do Quest for Camelot, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, and Castle in the Sky have in common?
We’re watching (and maybe even reading!) each movie in Brave Writer’s online MOVIE DISCUSSION CLUB!
Reading? A movie?
A recent Brave Writer Instagram post (pic above) got us thinking!
Invite MOVIES to do the reading aloud!
Turning on subtitles (even for an English-language film) has a heap of benefits!
- Experience dialogue in a new way, sometimes even before a character opens their mouth. Start laughing in advance, then turn your attention to the actor’s delivery.
- Catch all the bits of dialogue —deepening your understanding of the overall storyline and how the characters are feeling. No more missed whispers or rewatching scenes to keep up!
- Track character names with ease.
- Utilize the added visual cues of subtitles to catch tricky terminology or hard-to-pronounce words.
- Keep tabs on a complex storyline. Subtitles can offer clues about the scene’s mood or how a character feels (ominous music playing, for example).
Hold juicy subtitle discussions with your kids. Did that music feel ominous to them? Is there a better adjective to use? Does the character’s facial expression match their dialogue? Could they have strengthened their delivery? How?
As you watch each film together, you could even turn the sound off and read the subtitles aloud to your kids. Or take turns reading them!
- What visual clues help you decide how to deliver a line?
- How do the different characters speak—hesitantly? Confidently?
- Does a character’s tone change according to who they are talking to and what is going on around them?
You won’t fall asleep during this read-aloud!
Join us in Brave Writer’s Movie Club to watch (and perhaps read!) fabulous films.
