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大專校院英語電影配音比賽

It will be one of the beautiful memory in these four years, I think.

To dub a movie, it's a thing that I never expected to do in my college life or even in my life. It's all start because of the novel presentation. Our teacher asked all of us to do the novel presentation in every semester. But there is one exception. If we join some competitions which are related to English, then we don't have to do the novel presentation. Last semester, I was a group leader and do the novel presentation and newsletter at the same time. For me those days are so .......Um, to be honest, I have to say that I even don't know how I pass those days. Every day, I have to do a lot of works. I have to check and follow the schedule to make our works in the right way and can present at the right time. I use all my free time to do those things. Choose to do the report rather than go out with friends. It's hard and let me feel a lot of stress also it let feel like I don't have freedom. When I want to take a break then the first thought is that "I still have a lot of work to do." "What work that I didn't finish yet." Due to a lot of works and efforts, both of the presentation was very good and liked by my classmates and teacher.

Owing to that experience, I decide to join competition in this semester. One is the English speech contest and the other one is movie dubbing contest. However, it’s really sad that I was been told that I can’t join the speech contest after I had already finish my draft and started to practice because the applicants are over the range. Not until I start to dub the movie did I realize that how hard it is. English is the most basic and important thing in this work. Nevertheless, the pronunciation, the intonation, the sound are also be the important one. Moreover, the most difficult is that how can we make the sound which was make by the machine or made by the thing that we can’t bring or not very common in our daily life. For example, to make the sound of explosion, thunder, or the fire. For me, dub the movie is not just use different language or different intonation to speak, it also test our sensitive to listening, the ability to catch the timing to speak and if we can realize the way that the director shoot the film and what kinds of feeling that director want to convey to the audience. Finally, we finish all the work on March 19th and sent it out to the organizer and on April 10th we got the information and know that we pass the preliminary selection. It’s really surprised us because that means that we are award recognition by teachers in WZU and also by the organizer. And on May 11th we are going to join the final competition. It’s really make me excited and also nervous.

Really hope we can win the prize for our school.