Chapter 5Performance Theory
It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what’s the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt.
Sylvia Ashton Warner, New Zealand writer
At an elementary level, this is the essence of what you will do as a performer in sports-casting. You are the source. You will then convey the message. You hope it will be received by the audience in the way you intended.
However, a lot can go wrong. Forget all that can interfere technically or the limitations of the medium itself. Every individual in the audience will color his or her interpretation of what they think you meant based on their own selective perception. That’s just the way it is. ...
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