In chapter nine I was able to read about how to make an effective introduction and conclusion. In the speech buddies video I found the girl who talked about the usage of cell phones while driving a very good speaker. This is probably because her speech had an emotional approach and I can see that this topic is something she is passionate about. It also relates to most of us since we all get tempted to see whose calling or texted us while driving.
In chapter thirteen of the speech buddies videos I found both of the watch it videos rather boring. My first problem was that they weren't so animated and mono-toned. But the biggest problem was their poor choice in subject (at least to me anyways). I don't think that their subjects can relate to most of us that is techno and the history of Kodak cameras. Although I do listen to techno I find his overuse of facts and statistics overwhelming and I lost my interest half way though. Some of them were interesting like how it developed into today's techno but I did notice that alot of the video was skipped forwards so maybe they only wanted to show facts that were used. I found the girl who talked about Kosher the most interesting because I've heard that term before and always wondered what it meant. I think picking a topic that the audience can relate to is the most important/
I found the chapter thirteen speech buddy videos a little uninteresting as well. I am not sure if it was their choice of topics or just the presentation, but I was having trouble focusing on them while they spoke. Techno and the history of Kodak cameras is something that may interest a small group of people, but I think if you are choosing those topics to talk to a large, diverse audience, you might choose something either that more people can relate to or something that, even if people don't know about the topic, they might find it interesting to learn about. The Kosher speech was also the most interesting to me because it is something that we hear about in our daily lives, but I only vaguely knew where the term came from.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree it is so important to keep audience interested. I have noticed that sometimes there are very boring speakers and they keep on talking and talking and I would wonder if they are actually looking at the audience (which would definitely be seen that half the people there are asleep) or the speaker is just so wrapped up in his topic. When I was watching the speech buddy videos, I will have to agree, they were boring because they were monotonous, had no life and energy in what they were saying. It was as if they memorized a boring poem and had to say it in front of class.
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