Friday, September 10, 2010
Our First Blog Post! Wowful speaking
Today's post is about "wowful" speaking. Find a clip of a wowful speaker. Post a minimum of 150 explaining why you admire them. Why are they a contagious speaker? Is it their delivery? Content? Passion? What qualities do they bring to achieving effective presentational speaking? Support your answer with at least 150 word post by next class on Monday, Sept. 20th at the start of class.
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I just watched a clip of Steve Jobs giving a commencement speech at Stanford in 2005. His delivery wasn't at all that exciting to watch at first, compared to his other exciting and energetic deliveries of the Ipod product line, but the content and personal history of his speech was very moving. The first thing that he brought up, when he started to give his speech, was the fact that he never graduated college. That single fact stuck with me. I never knew that and that kept me interested. Here was a man who wields enormous influence in his industry, and consequently the world, who never graduated college. His next 3 parts of his speech were all just as captivating as it dealt with how he came to where he made it in life. He again used his life experiences to send his message across to his audience on how things worked out they way they did for him. Life wasn't always good to him. Still he pressed on.
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http://www.hulu.com/watch/11930/saturday-night-live-update-sen-tim-calhoun
ReplyDeleteThis is a clip of Will Forte portraying the character Tim Calhoun on the television show Saturday Night Live. What I like most about this video is the fact that he's exhibiting all the typically-wrong mannerisms for giving an effective speech, yet you can't help but to pay attention to him. He's speaking in a low monotone voice, isn't making natural eye-contact and is giving awkward hand gestures. His use of note cards was absolutely ridiculous, yet so funny. His delivery of the speech was almost like a gimmick that actually worked! The content in the speech wasn’t all that exciting, although humorous. My favorite part was definitely how scared he looks during the entire speech. Also, his proposal of making a quieter siren for library fires was very entertaining. So for me, this speech shows that no matter how bad your presence may be you can still give a great speech by using humor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NS9unm-OQ
ReplyDeleteThis is a portion of Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Founders Day Gala, talking about the argument of "Words not mattering." From the very beginning of the portion of this speech I was locked in because I felt the emotion in his voice. Every time he says “Just words?” after quoting an important line in historical literature, you can feel the conviction and passion in his voice and see it in his eyes. He is very calm in his delivery and his presence while always making different eye contact. When he needs to change the tempo or tone of his voice he does so accordingly. He seems comfortable and happy as if he has been speaking in public forever. He is a great public speaker because he can connect with the people. It was very inspirational when he was talking about how people criticize him for talking about hope all the time. He explained that he talks about hope a lot because it was very doubtful that he would get to where he is today. He was raised by a single teenage mother and his grandparents and they gave him three things in life: love, education, and hope. He went on to talk about various important times in American history where hope was required to succeed. Hope is something that we all have, and it made him very relevant to his audience.
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ReplyDeleteYay! I finally found the correct blog... I was too busy looking at the one listed in our syllabus, but I'm guessing that is just an error.
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ReplyDeleteThe posted clip is of Martin Luther King Jr. and his speech; “I Have a Dream.” Martin Luther King Jr. has passion in his voice that made his audience believe in him and trust that the information that he is giving to them must be true. After viewing the video I was able to see that he knew everything he should have to be up in front of his audience, he also knew his information that he was passing along as well as knowing himself because at that time life was not pleasant for him either. When viewing Martin Luther King Jr. we are able to see that he had a strong stance, powerful voice and always made eye contact that captivated his audience and kept them with him throughout the entire speech. That is also supported by the way the audience reacted when making certain points. The audience clapped and cheered for him. His speech was based towards a specific audience but geared to bring together the nation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zTPZWhYXo8
ReplyDeleteFound this video of Aleks Srbinoski who is talking about the social impact of emotions. He looks to be a good public speaker because he got the audience very involved. He gave examples and talked a lot about the importance of body language in projecting you mood and emotions to others. He states emotions are contagious and if you bring good positive emotions to you speech that will be reflected to the audience.
When then candidate Barack Obama made several of his campaign speeches at town hall meetings he often conveyed the image of a twenty-first-century "Horatio Alger". He was a bicultural,biracial product of an American divorced working woman and a Kenyan father who returned to Africa. After the death of his mother Barack was raised by her American working class parents. He was like some in his audiences, a "Heinz 57 American". His unbuttoned collars, his loosened ties and rolled up shirt sleeves projected to his audiences his likeness to them and his apparent readiness to get his hands dirty if need be to tackle Washington's problems with their help. His wardrobe choices perhaps made consciously by a consultant nevertheless produced the effect of him as the common man. His ability to "pepper" his speech with genuinely felt "down home " phrases and casual contractions on occasion resonated with the Jane and John Q. Publics in the crowds. His speeches made them believe that in addition to his lawyering expertise and governmental experiences he needed their invaluable input on issues in order to bring about a consensus for change. The now President Obama's words appealed to their vanities as well as to their idealism in a way not heard since 1961 when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy stated "Ask not what your country can do for you..."
ReplyDeleteThe speech I chose to watch was a speech done by Adolph Hitler. I do not admire him by any means but he is a very aggressive and powerful speaker. He captures his audience by clearly delivering his messages. Hitler uses his hands to speaking and grows louder and louder as his point in the sentence grows near. Hitler also leaves long pauses after each speech to give his audience a sense of the feeling of wanting more and to give them some time to think about his last message. When Hitler uses his hand movements he uses strong movements as if he has ultimate control in what he is saying and doing. His words are not only crisp but are passionate. Hitler believes in every word he is saying and delivers it in a simple vocabulary so that everyone can understand what he is saying, word for word. It is because of Hitler’s speeches that he was ale to captivate his audience into believing anything he wanted them to. Hitler never contradicted himself; he always had notes to follow but hardly ever took his eyes of his audience. He had a direct connection to his audience and when they cheered he would lower his hand to silence him and they would do so, just because they were so into what he had to say next. His tone was direct to his audience. Hitler always dressed clean and in his Nazi uniform, which meant he was of high power. This made Hitler even more of an authority and made his audience want to listen to him more. The most powerful part of Hitler’s speech is not only his fluctuation of his tone of voice but the passion and desire he had in his voice to reach his audience.
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I just watched the speech Robert F. Kennedy made about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I feel that this is a great speech for many different reasons. He is delivering sad news on the beginning of the speech and is a strong speaker to do that for a large group of people after such a tragic time, but he turns the bad news into inspiring news and gives the people hope and a brighter outlook for what is to come of what happened. Kennedy has note cards, but he only really uses them when he is quoting another person so that he gets it correct. He makes direct eye contact with his audience and has passion in his voice; this makes you believe that he is serious about what he is saying and what he plans on doing for the people. I believe that he made this a great speech because he also related to the tragic event that happened by telling of how his own family member had been shot, which makes the audience feel more at ease with him, because he knows what he is talking about. I feel Robert F. Kennedy made a great speech honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and telling how he will continue his dream.
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ReplyDeleteI watched Hugh Laurie give an acceptance speech at the Emmys for his TV show, House. It is funny to hear him crack joke without being sarcastic. The speech caught my attention because it was not like any other acceptance speech. He used props to make his delivery entertaining and unique. He received feedback from the audience in the form of laughter and applause. This feedback told him that his audience was paying attention and that they were interested in what he had to say. He was content in thanking the people who helped him obtain the Emmy like his co-workers and agents. Knowing how to recover during of a mishap in his words makes him an excellent public speaker. He had great eye contact with his audience; he spoke clearly into the microphone, and did not cross his arms while speaking. These characteristics made him qualified public speaker and I would watch him deliver another speech because of this.
Anthony's speech on NY Yankee Stadium was very effective. Despite my being a Phillies fanatic, his initial stats caught my attention. His references were wide ranging from Jay Z with whom I am not familiar to "the house that Ruth built" with which I am familiar. His content was excellent. His slides were eyecatching. He cited well.His speech flowed at a good pace. He might improve by having more audience eye contact and slightly more formal posture. After his speech I want to visit Yankee stadium!
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