シャドーイング練習: Story structure: Theme - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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In the last video, we talked about structure as a sequence of beats, and that's a great first step.
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In the last video, we talked about structure as a sequence of beats, and that's a great first step.
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During the process of creating a story, we also try to step back and think about what connects all the individual events in the story.
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To do this, we often ask our storytellers the following simple question: What are you trying to say in your story?
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When we ask this question, we're getting at something we call the theme.
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The theme is connected to the moral, which is the lesson that the main character learns at the end of a story.
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For example, the moral of cars might be: There's more to life than winning.
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And for thousands of years, people have been weaving morals into stories.
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Notice the story spine exercise also ended with the step And the moral of the story is,
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That can help you make sure that all your story beats work together to get across this larger point.
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Let's check in with our Pixar storytellers to hear how they think about theme.
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When the audience leaves your movie and a month later they're saying to their friend, "Oh, I love this movie.
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It was about...
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What do you want that to be?
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So for a movie like the Incredibles, you could say Oh, it's a movie about a bunch of superheroes fighting crime. But...
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When you're talking about theme, you're asking about the deeper thing it's about.
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Oh, it's a movie about a guy who's lost his sense of identity, and he finds it again in reconnecting with his family, his identity as part of a family,
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as part of that super team.
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It's basically why you're telling me this in a nutshell.
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I worked on a great film in 1999 called Iron Giant.
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and the theme of that movie was You are who you choose to be.
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like in Toy Story 3, learning to love, the theme, one of the themes was learning to love is learning to let go.
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I find if I experience a film that doesn't have a core idea or a theme, it becomes very, unmemorable.
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And later, when I'm trying to think about the film and wonder what it was about, I can't remember because There was no unifying theme.
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Oh, the theme is basically the reason that the character lets go of their wants for what they need.
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Always start a story knowing the goal of your protagonist, and the goal is what they want.
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So a character is going after what they want.
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But often they realize that what they want is not actually what they needed.
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and then what they needed is much more important.
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finding out what they need that usually is the theme of the movie.
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Once you know what your theme is, what you're trying to say, you can then create a series of dramatic events,
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dramatic tests for your protagonist, for the realization that I need to change.
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and I need to be influenced by the theme of this movie.
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It's important to know the theme or the moral of the story before you start.
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Sometimes, however, you discover the moral of the film while you're working on it, and it's actually different than what you had expected.
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So when I think about Inside Out, that started with this clear question, what happens if you lose your joy?
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And then for a few years, like two and a half years, the focus in the middle of the story was losing your joy and joy and fear going on a journey into
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Riley's mind.
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Then there was an epiphany, which is, Joy has to learn that there's a role for sadness in Riley's life too and has to let sadness in.
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So it became a big theme about learning to embrace sadness.
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You don't ever want to limit yourself by the thing you thought on day one.
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You want to allow it to grow and become deeper
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and richer and more thought out and more evolved as you spend the time developing it.
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One thing is for sure: you don't need to start with a theme.
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But by the end of the storytelling process, you should be able to communicate it clearly.
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And whatever the theme is, it's usually connected with the needs of your main character, what they need to do, know, or learn in order to succeed in life.
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In this next exercise, you'll have a chance to identify the theme
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or moral in your three favorite films as well as consider what you want to say in your story.
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このレッスンについて
このレッスンでは、ストーリーの「テーマ」について学びながら、英語のスピーキングとリスニングを練習します。ビデオではストーリー作成のプロセスや、テーマが物語をつなぐ役割、主人公の「欲しいもの」と「必要なもの」の違いなどが説明されています。これらの内容をシャドーイング（shadow speech）で練習することで、自然な発音とリズムを身につけ、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立てることができます。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- Theme：テーマ（物語の核心となる考え）
- Moral：教訓（主人公が学ぶ教え）
- Protagonist：主人公
- Epiphany：頓悟（突然理解すること）
- Unifying theme：統一的なテーマ（物語をまとめる考え）
練習のコツ
ビデオのスピードは中程度で、話し手の語調が自然で親しみやすいので、シャドーイングに最適です。まずは1文ずつ聞き取り、すぐに繰り返してみてください。「What are you trying to say in your story?」のような疑問文の語調（上がるところ）や、「You are who you choose to be.」のような強調されたフレーズは、特に注意して発音しましょう。これにより、英語の発音を良くするだけでなく、ネイティブのようなリズムも身につけられます。
シャドーイングの練習には、shadowing siteを利用すると便利です。何度も繰り返し練習し、自分の発音を録音してビデオと比較することで、改善点がわかります。IELTS スピーキング対策をしている方は、テーマについての説明部分を重点的に練習し、論理的な話し方を磨きましょう。shadowspeakの技術を上達させることで、自然な英語表現が自由自在に使えるようになります。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。