Finally, let's talk about movement, which I will talk about a little more on camera in a moment. A few things about movement, which we can break down into physical movement that is walking around pacing about unconscious movement, which may or may not be slightly irritating physical tics and gesture which is as old as the human race, probably pre speech, I would imagine, many of the gestures that we use today, were in use. There's a great book by the author, Stephen methan, called the singing Neanderthals. Where he proposes that speech actually arose later than an initial language he calls the proto hum. So people originally didn't have words, they would have used gestures, and simply the tone of their voice. Mm hmm.

Um, and so forth. A lot of the stuff we still do today. It is amazing how much you can express without words going back to, of course prosity which which is a language really almost unto itself. Now gesture went along with that and always has, it would be slightly strange in conversation to stand facing somebody with your hands by your sides and not gesture at all. Although that bizarre behavior is portrayed very often in American sitcoms, for example, where you'll have two people standing foot apart facing each other with their hands by their sides having a conversation. It kind of looks okay on television, but it doesn't look okay in real life.

In real life. We want a little bit more space between us than that. And the person speaking doesn't tend to look at the person listening. As we said, all the time, the person speaking will look around the person listening for my contact facing the person speaking, and the person speaking may well be gesticulating in order to get their point across. Now, if you're gesticulate, that's great. And you can use that.

As long as you become conscious. You're getting a theme here, aren't you through the toolbox, conscious of the gestures you're using. There are some archetypical gestures, which actors will use, and they will even get in character by using certain classes of gesture like a downward push is a very dominating gesture. If they're a dominating character, they'll start using downward pushing gestures much more in their character. So gestures give away what's happening inside you a great deal. And there's a few which I will demonstrate in a moment, which you need to be wary of one or two particularly to be aware of, if you're speaking to people, because they will undermine what you're saying.

My suggestion with all of this is to be conscious of it. And if you're practicing it for a talk or something like that, practice it full size. don't practice mentally. demised gestures because you'll be likely to do the minimized versions, just through muscle memory when you go on stage and talk to people. So with movement, be yourself, authenticity. However, be conscious, because some of the things you've got as habits may not be helping you, and in particular, irritating tics are distracting when you're speaking.

So, that's the vocal toolbox. That's a little tour of it. We've got a couple more to go and I'm going to hand back to myself now to do those