Facial Expressions

For this post, I was running low on ideas, so I decided to expand the idea of vocal posture to facial expressions. As I was watching the video again, I noticed that his facial expressions were affecting his voice, particularly in vowel production. This is especially apparent when he gives a kind of half smile, and all his vowels are raised in the process. I wanted to play with these aspects to see how my mimicry of them would approximate his production. This may not lead to a great insight about the dialect in general, but it should be an interesting exercise nonetheless.

[Looking to side] Invite the leaders into a meeting, at Islas High School. We outline the rollout functions of the [look to interviewer] police and sent out the sot. We didn’t [shake head and bring mouth together, like smirk] deny anything, we just put everything on the table. We decided to work with them to bring about changes. [head back briefly] So what we realized, for the last [start half-smile to interviewer] two years, we don’t have a murder in Payne Avenue. Right? [stop smiling] And, um, when you look at Majesty Garden also, the year that the Ratbat gang was so dominant, the amount of killing and [raise eyebrows] shootings. We foot patrols in the area, we put [raise eyebrows and nod for emphasis] mobile patrols and a [light head shaking for emphasis] supervisor ensure that the police are there on a 24 basis. [more emphatic side to side head movements] So we have approximately 71 gangs in 2014, now we have at least 51. So the tremendous success is to dismantle these gangs, and we’re not going to stop there, we’re gonna [big head movement] continue, we’re gonna have [nod for emphasis on each list item] matches, we’re gonna have meetings, we’re gonna have things wit the youts, like domino tournaments, football tournaments, and for the young ladies, trying to come up with some netball tournaments. And of course we put tremendous strain on the police to come up with these resources, but the fact that we are [nodding for emphasis] doing it we’re just gonna work for the betterment.

Next time I'll do a wrap up post talking about what I've learned.