Choosing your own Audience.

It was a far different experience presenting down to only five people. Also, having to choose the five people you want to present to makes it pretty fun and interesting. I decided to pick a couple people that I know I could be comfortable around. I chose my boyfriend, Derek, my friend, Alex, my cousin, Joreen, my sister, Monica, and My Mother. I did this speech the same day we did our speeches on Friday and told them all to come over to my house because I needed them for one of my homework assignments. In this speech, what I did differently, was that I eliminated as much staring at my note cards and since having already performed the speech earlier in the day, I kinda had a lot of information stored that I could repeat it again without having to rely on note cards. So my note card usage went down to using only two and I made my intro a little different where I didn’t ask them if they liked video games, I just went on with my story. I believe I improved from the presentation I did on Friday because knowing that I’m already comfortable talking in front of these people gave me a boost of confidence knowing that they wouldn’t judge me so much as my peers in class. If I had done the speech differently, I would give my input more on violence and video games rather relying on other opinions I found from my source citations. The feedback I received was good. They told me that I sort of talk too fast and that I need to pace myself when I’m going from one idea to the next. They also said that I should practice a little more and maybe memorize a bit more information so that people know that I’m not just relying on my note cards and that I haven’t practiced at all. This exercise in my opinion is fun and useful because you get to have a little more fun presenting in front of people that you chose for yourself.