Looking Back on My Speech Delivery

Hi Everyone!

This is going to be my second-to-last blog post. Can you believe it? We're almost at the end of this road. I have been working hard on my TED talk. Finishing the drafts, practicing my speech, presenting my speech, and now working to turn it into an actual TED talk. 

I discovered that having a longer speech would come to bite me in the back. It took me a while to finally get it the way I wanted it, all in one take. The beginning of the speech featured an imagination of a place where you could go. I believe that this type of opening forced the audience to pay attention and listen to the speaker. I noticed that the people in class were actually listening to the speech. The length of the speech made it harder to pay attention as I went along. But because the content was was interesting and new to the listeners, they were actually attentive. The length could've been a little much. Even as I was delivering the speech, I started to realize how long my speech actually was. Although, the rest of the people in my class assured me that the longer length was okay, I felt that the speech might've been a dash too long.  

While the speech was on the longer side, it was easy to listen to and follow the whole time. The panegyric was broken up into two parts; one was the actual tip and after that was the anecdote that proved my point. So after the introduction, came the tip, and following it was story to go with it. And it went like this for three tips. As I was delivering the speech, I tried to make sure that my pace was clear and slow enough to understand. Because my teacher had to move the speech for me, at times it was hard to keep my steady pace, to keep up with her continuing of the monologue. The volume, in my opinion, because I knew that when we edited it on iMovie, we would be able to increase or decrease the volume as necessary.  

Overall, I think that that my delivery of my speech went very well. Despite the many takes that it took, with the heater turning on and having not enough storage, it finally came the way that I wanted. All my hard work up until now was worth it so far. I can't wait to show you guys the end result so sit tight. And I'll see you later. . . Next time on Internal Utopias.