Introduction:
- Attention Getter: Redefine audience -> Relate to an observer.
- What is an audience? When one thinks about an audience, they think about a cheering crowd, or a large group of people watching some sort of production. However, audience is about observing. When an audience is present, it means that something is being observed.
- Thesis/ Central Idea: Lead Singer of the Talking Heads, author, and bike rider, David Byrne.
- How he feels riding a bike makes him a good audience/ observer of whatever city he visits.
Main Point #1: Who is David Byrne
- Talking Heads
- Cultural Influences
- “Stop making sense”
- Tries to get his audience to see things from a different perspective. I.e. ‘Big Man’ suit, Interview with himself
- Bicycle Diaries
Main Point #2: Byrne and Bicycles
- Bicycle Diaries
- What it is, and a brief summary.
- What he learns from stepping out of the shoes of a performer and into the perspective of an audience/ observer.
Main Point #3: Using cycling to be an audience of the world
- Why bicycles are a good medium for seeing people and places from a different and truer perspective.
Conclusion:
- Restate Thesis
- Review Main Points
- Closing/ Memorable Last Statements
- By changing his perspective, David Byrne successfully teaches us how to be an audience of the world.