Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Audience Matters

I felt that Matthew started off his speech with a great attention getter by pretending to vomit and then engaging the audience by asking how many of them had done something similar because of too much drinking.  I actually felt like he did a great job all around on his speech.  It was informative, especially do to his utilization of the overhead projector to display and draw special attention to certain data.  I also felt that he did a good job orally citing his source and because it was a credible source, it allowed him to speak with authority on the subject.  He repeatedly referred to the well-being and safety of his audience, which lent him an air of goodwill.

It was hard to get much of a feel for the other speech since it was such a short clip.  I actually thought that Courtney looked down way too much instead of engaging her audience.  I thought that she did a good job in her introduction of letting her audience the information that her speech was going to cover.  Her topic of "light pollution" seemed interesting, so I would have liked to see where she was going with it.

"If you're the last one left, this is my request:  could you just shut off the lights." -The Jealous Sound

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