Speech 3 Write Up + Outline + Reflection

Audience is important to me as a speaker in terms of knowing how I should deliver my information to an extent in which they will be able to comprehensively understand all material as efficiently and effectively as possible. While having the skill to adapt to different audiences is very important, speakers will always face an audience who they would not always be able to completely decipher or understand. In these scenarios, I think it is important to find a foundation that can be interpreted by a general audience, expanding its access to a wider demographic. Personally, I prefer having audiences from a professional standpoint, because it forces me to be more conscientious with my work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outline:

 

The Power of Perspective:

 

Good afternoon everybody. Today, I’m going to talk about what I personally find to be one of the most important aspects of the audience, relative to public speaking, and that is the idea of perspective. If you guys remember Nancy Duarte from one of our earlier assignments for this module, you’d remember this quote “The people you’re addressing will determine whether your idea spreads or dies, simply by embracing it or rejecting it.” If a public speaker’s goal is trying to share their perspective to the audience, how can we ensure that they, you, the audience, will embrace that idea? It all boils down to how accessible you allow yourself to be. For today, I want to try an experiment. I will try to convince that you guys are all photographers.

 

Alright, right now I want everyone to take out their cellphones. Iphone android, doesnt matter. And what i want you to do in a bit, you’ll have 10 seconds, is to take a photo of me. However, dont just press the button. I want you to explore the utilities on your phone. If you want to zoom all the way in or all the way out, do it, if you want to add a filter, go ahead, if u wanna use flash, even panorama mode, its up to you. But you have 10 seconds, and it starts now.

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Everyone have their photo? Alright, let me see them. Alright well if you look all around the room, you can see that not a single one is the same. Every shot has different angles, different lightings, and whether you all intended to or not, that picture is actual proof of you engaging reality through a unique perspective. If you guys remember David Byrne, we read his stories of how he engaged the realities of San Francisco and Istanbul, through the perspective of bicycling. For example, when he went to San Francisco, he first talked about how San Francisco is not particularly the most geographically friendly for bikes, and that is how he expressed the hills. He also talks about biking across the Golden Gate Bridge, and the great fog that he encountered, which reminded me of this other photo. Both Byrne and I actually engaged the same realities of San Francisco, but through totally different lenses and perspectives. You guys actually just participated in the same phenomenon, just on a smaller scale. Everytime we take a photo or look at a photo, we actually immerse ourselves into someone else’s perspective, and in that moment in time in which you took the photo, no one else saw the world exactly as you did, and no one will ever be able to recreate that exact moment.

 

Cool right?

 

Lets try one last example: go through your camera roll again, and look for one of your favorite photos that either is of you, or one that you took. It could be a selfie, a group pic with friends, a photo of the city. And once you have that photo in your hand, I want you to think about one thing that you like about the photo. I can guarantee that if I ask every person in this room, they will tell me something different about what they liked, but what makes photography so great, is that it is a universal art that is accessible to everyone. If you show your neighbor your photo, i can bet that they will find another thing that they like, with a perspective that’s different than yours, all while you are able to gain those experiences and embrace each other’s realities. And the great thing about it is, that its not just limited to bikes or cameras. Anything that youre passionate about, and willing to share to others, becomes another volume and facet of communication.

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And that, is the power of perspective.

 

Also, if you ever forget that you, indeed are a photographer now, you all have a photo of me now on your phone as a reminder and a souvenir.

 

Thank you.

 

Intro

Nancy Duarte

Accessibility

 

Phone Experiment

David Byrne Comparison

Same Phenomenon

 

Last example: Favorite photo

Photography is a universal art

Not just bikes or cameras

 

Reflection:

Unfortunately, I was feeling under the weather during this presentation. I wasn’t able to come out and present with my normal zeal and enthusiasm, but I definitely felt more genuine and passionate about this topic rather than my previous speech. In this speech, I was able to connect topics and discussions of the module, and apply it to my current lifestyles and interests. I’m glad I was able to find some correlation, which overall made this module a very fruitful lesson, rather than just another speech and assignment.

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