After Effects Speech Questions

Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream Speech

• Who is speaking and why was the speech important?
  
• Martin Luther King Jr. is speaking about his dream and hope that one day blacks and whites can live as equals. His speech was one of the defining moments during the American Civil Rights movement.

• Why do you find it interesting?
  
• I found this speech interesting because of how passionate King is about the topic and how powerfully he delivers the message. Martin Luther King is a great speaker. He creates a picture that the audience can imagine while giving his message. He gives his audience hope for the future.

• What is the emotion, mode, tone, feeling and personality of the speech?
  
• The speaker seems to be very passionate about the topic. He is very prepared and has chosen his words wisely, as well as, bring in his own family and experience into his speech. The emotions and thoughts throughout the speech are hope, want, imagination, and history. It is very serious and you can tell in King’s voice that he is a leader and someone people look up to.

• What is loud, stressed, soft, paused, emphasized?
  
• Each word is clearly pronounced. He pauses in random places but when he does it makes since and makes the speech more powerful. Words that are stressed are ones that deal with when he wants something to happen, like “now” or “will”. “I have a dream” is always spoken loudly and is the most important or emphasized saying spoken. Certain words are also stressed by being dragged out. The words “rise up” is emphasized as well as when he says “one day”. When he talks about each situation that one day will happen he speaks louder.

• How does it make you feel? the audience feel?
  
• The speech makes me feel inspired and proud of how far we’ve come now that what he hoped for has occured to some extent. It makes me feel as though I can do something and make a change, that there is hope for change.The audience seems very interested in what the speaker has to say. They clap and whistle several times and you can also hear them agreeing with comments that King makes.

• About Martin Luther King Jr.
• Martin Luther King is most known for being a key leader in the African American Civil Rights Movement. He was a Baptist minister who became very involved in the civil rights movement during his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott as well as the March on Washington where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Piece Prize in 1964. King was assassinated on April 4th, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.