Thursday, April 16, 2009
Interactive Videos 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2 and 12.3
I’ve found using similes and humor to catch the audience’s attention and to keep them listening helpful. When I hear a simile I can actually visualize what the speaker is trying to present. I am able to compare it to what the speaker is saying and to something I am familiar with. When speaking the speaker should not talk to fast or use a high pitch tone. I’ve notice how some people talk with a high pitch tone and their sentences always end with an upward reflection like it’s a sentence. When the speaker looks at their note cards too much it makes them look like they are ignoring the audience and being unprepared.
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I must agree that the biggest audience grabbers are jokes/humor, stories or analogies and questions that get the audience involved. Every time I listen on in peoples' speeches, I tend to look for these first, to see if they are putting in valuable information for the audience to be attentive towards. Appealing to the audience, whether it be the projection of your voice or the elimination of the note cards in general is how we improve our speeches overall. I used to feel like the note cards were a wall to defend me from the glaring eyes of the audience, but until this class, I further learned that it is actually one of the most distracting things that a speaker can do.
ReplyDeletehey!! I too think that when a speaker uses similes or humor it gets a person's attention, especially the humor part haha because for some reason, well in my opinion, it just makes the presentation that much better. :)
ReplyDeleteGood one on bringing up the high pitch tone, I also think people should not use monotone. I say that because I mean, It'd be pretty boring and put some people to sleep. Not literally of course, but I'm pretty sure you get what I mean. haha. I totally agree with you on the whole notecard thing. That's why for my second speech, I so tried not to look at my notecards all that much because I felt like the audience felt like I was ignoring them. Good job! :)