Post-Speech
Evaluation #4
My
group was the Trax Development team pitching our line of shoes specializing in
child monitoring for prevention of child abductions to the local shoe company
Deckers based here in Goleta
The
team: Chris as Chief Technology Officer, Nick as Chief Product Officer, Ling as
CEO, and Linda as Community Outreach Coordinator
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1. MORE
PRACTICE: This time around, the entire team met together several times to
practice, but I want to start practicing more on my own. I did not practice for
this outside of the few team meetings and could have hit my marks and points
better.
2. Timing
slides/ setting up a timer: I would have really appreciated knowing the time
that we had taken up during the presentation. This would help me realize if I
should go through a specific section more quickly, or if I have time to
elaborate.
3. Linda was really great at
creating a serious tone and conveying emotion during the presentation. I took
on the role knowing that I would be giving technical information more positively,
but would like to practice getting serious
4. Similar
to above, I am good at being positive and somewhat humorous, but want to
effectively convey other emotions and direct a crowd or audience’s emotions
through presentation. So start practicing to a mirror or something; perhaps
create scenarios to improve public speaking at a funeral, or memorial.
5. The
last thing I really want to start getting down and intend to practice in the
future is getting the crowd as physically and mentally involved as I can. This
time around our team got to get them thinking about missing children. Also
about the affordability of our product. I specifically got them to hold out or
look at an iphone as an example of the potential for compact gps technology. I
have been improving however, I still remember the elevator pitch guy creating
the scene of you at a baseball game sitting on the seat-warmer and want to
start moving even more in that direction.
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1. My
usual pet-peeves: repeating gestures, though I have improved a lot throughout
the course in this regard.
2. I
don’t believe I said umm in this video which is great, but still want to stop
repeating words while speaking. Like missing the word I wanted to say, then
repeating the sentence.
3. We
wanted to stress everyone getting equal speaking time, but given the fact that
our presentation was running short during practice we all decided to elaborate
even more on each of our subjects: I would like then to stop having to go off
the cuff to lengthen presentations. I did fairly well and only stumbled on my
message very few times – and it hopefully isn’t really noticeable unless you
knew what I intended to say – but I ended up speaking a bit longer than the
rest of my team as a result and we still only presented for like 13 minutes
before questions
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1. PRACTICE!
Made all the difference between this speech and the last. My group met together
on 3 separate occasions outside of class to practice and plan the presentation.
2. Vocal
Projection: has always been an important point for improvement in my speech and
I was able to project my voice and convey authority during the presentation
3. Body
Positioning and Gestures: This presentation was less focused on individuals
speaking, so body position during speech was very important to consider. I kept
myself engaged as I could and opened my arms up and faced my body to the
audience and my group when speaking to remain connected to both parties.
4. The
Prezi: I feel like, with the help of my teammates, the Prezi finally got
somewhere really great for the presentation. There were not too many words
flooding the pages and distracting the audience. There were helpful images and
tables available to guide the audience’s attention. And there were enough
titles and subjects written to guide us as presenters through the 12-15 minutes
of presenting
5. Visual
Presentation: My group was not as coordinated in clothing as Canyon and Taka’s
suit-up, but I am very glad we moved in a similar direction by wearing ties
(Nick and I) and vests (Ling and Linda) though Ling couldn’t find a matching
one.
6. Visual
Aid: The film was a great addition to our presentation because it 1. Looked professional
and like we put a lot of effort into our project and 2. Set the tone and
established a background for characterization of our company and our product.
Also it was a lot of fun to create and helped the team work together on our
project.
My Fave Moves
- Canyon: understood his audience very well – not the hypothetical one, but the actual classroom – and made use of his previous history as a shoe shine salesman to establish authority for his new character and to establish a humorous presentation.
- Ben - Did a great job getting into character for his presentation. very entertaining and also set the mood for the rest of his team's acts
- The Dump Crew - created a very impressive Prezi that guided the audience through the presentation very efficiently That is the kind of creativity that I try to channel when creating visual media aid for my presentations
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