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Soon the first year journalism students will be center stage.
For the first year journalism students at the I.U.T., oral expression is essential. It is for this reason that they are required to take a theatrical expression course during their second semester in the program (The I.U.T. Nice Sophia Antipolis is in fact the only Journalism School in France that offers this opportunity.).
This course lasts ten weeks, in which the first part is dedicated particularly at verbal communication techniques: breathing, voice projection, diction, and reading short texts. The second part of the course is based on working the texts that they wrote themselves in writing workshops, which they eventually be played out on stage, of course, after cutting out the “fat” and bringing them up to a level more theatrically suitable. This means condensing the texts and adapting it to the individual capacities of the students while creating a desired “climate”. The students had reached this point before leaving for spring break, but now must work in class on finding the right tone for their pieces.
The last step will be the placement, and finding the right flow and transitions for on stage.
Then, for one evening, the young journalists will become actors.
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