Week 2

I cannot recall a time when I’ve been to a speech and the speaker didn’t connect with the audience. But that is probably because I didn’t connect with the speaker, so I didn’t remember the speech or care to even try to remember. I can image how I would feel as an audience member though. I would feel not important and I would probably be very bored. I wouldn’t care about the speech and I would probably start day dreaming. It would be very frustrating to understand what the speaker is trying to tell the audience. When I give my speeches hopefully I’ll be able to keep the audience interested in what I’m trying to say and hopefully connect with them. I’ll analyze the audience and make sure what I’m speaking about relates to them and hope they have some interest in what I’m talking about. Also, I’ll emphasize words and phrases so the speech doesn’t sound monotone and boring.

Presentations I’ve heard in the past that really caught my attention and were ones that I remember are speeches where there were a lot of different voice changes, and the speaker changed up the way they spoke. They also used hand jesters and really got into their speech and spoke well. The speeches that were boring were the ones where the speaker stands up front and just speaks with a monotone boring voice and has nothing interesting to talk about and doesn’t move a muscle while speaking. It’s frustrating and very boring, so I hope I’ll be able to speak well and not boring to many people with my speeches this semester.