Month: November 2017

For this project I filmed all of my rehearsal videos on the same day because I found that helped me work out the things in my speech that I wanted to keep working on. In my first rehearsal video I found myself stumbling a bit and realised I had not included some of the statistics that I wanted to use from both the readings and my own research. After filming my first video and realising these problems I spent some time making changes to my speech before I went on to film the next two rehearsal videos. The next two I found easier to do and filmed them almost directly one after the other. Filming my second video I was able to realise a few more changes I wanted to make on points I was getting stuck on so I went and added to my notes more before starting my third video.

In preparation for this class Ciarra, Aaron and I made a poster displaying all the data we collected in the panhandle the week before. It was good making something where we could visually see all our data written out. I found the readings this week really interesting because I had never put much thought into the way that data can be visually misleading. Huff’s reading discussed how spreading of numbers on graphs can make it look like there is more or less of a significant gap in the data which can help sway the audience to agree with a particular point of view.

In class we all went down to the Panhandle to make observations about bike usage. My group looked at the number of people wearing helmets and compared that with the number of people who passed through not wearing helmets. We noticed that the majority of people who were not wearing helmets were white males which was interesting. After that we took an uber to the bike coalition, I found it really interesting to hear someone who is heavily involved in the biking community talk about how they think the city is doing in terms of bike usage as well as to find out what the coalition itself does.

At my conference today we talked about how I thought I did on my last speech and how it is different doing speeches here to what I was used to doing in high school. We then talked about how I could write about the area in Sydney I’m from for my community  because in my area there is a lot of controversy over bikers riding on the road and swapping constantly between that and the footpath because there aren’t many bike lanes in my area. Professor Hunt suggested that I could try interviewing people from home like my parents and friends to see what their stance was on the issue. I think this will help my speech because it will be easier for me to talk about something that I have had a conversation about rather than something I have read.