To be honest I’m not a fan of power point and I like to
visualize through more story telling tactics when someone is giving a speech. I
haven’t to a public speaking event that really required presentation media
beyond just bulled notes from history class. From what I can tell that’s what
most of my speeches in college and high school required which was bulleted
notes of what we were saying. There was one presentation in high school that
required pictures for speech and that was our senior project. In this project
we would give a speech that showed how we improved over the course of attending
school and have a slide show that had pictures of our experiences. Now that I
think back on it, the pictures reflected what each of us were talking about
very well and were even emotional. By relating media with something everyone
was connected by (that is high school) we were all saddened to be leaving on
another. In this way pictures had an effect on us that we all could find
ourselves relating and understanding what they meant. They were of course very
distracting and I would have to scan every picture that came up before
listening to the person’s speech. I think the students who choose to give their
speech then present their collage of pictures were more successful in getting their
audiences attention.
I agree about most of the speeches with PowerPoint being in class and that is all that is really required. I like how you pointed out that the placement of the pictures can have an effect on how well you keep your audiences attention. How you said it was better if the pictures were at the end for the senior picture. It is very true that pictures during a presentation can be distracting to the audience but also to the speaker. The only thing that I would say can distract the speaker is if they are not organized, so overall I think that an organized speaker should use their pictures during the speech and just have it flow because that shows they took the time to make it work, but that is just my personal opinion.
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