Blog #3
Reflecting on the the Reflection of Myself
When looking at the video of my "who am I" speech there were many good and bad things that I noticed. I think that I did a pretty good job at projecting my voice although I did fade off on some of my sentences. I noticed that I didn't have much body movement which I was pretty happy about although I was moving my neck more than I should have. I did a good job with keeping to the time restrictions, my speech was almost exactly one minute. I think that my pronunciation was pretty strong, and I think I did an ok job of trying to make eye contact with the audience. On my next speech I will try to look more confident. I think that comes with practice, which means I need to prepare more in front of a mirror,or my family or an type of audience. I also think that I could practice looking for comfortable, which goes right along with confidence. I also noticed that during my speech I stuttered while speaking a few of my lines. I think this was because I was nervous, and the only way I can fix that is, once again, by being better prepared.
I think that I learned a lot from watching my peers do their speech's. I noticed their strengths and weaknesses and I also got to know them better. I noticed for example that Hannah likes to cross her legs while speaking just because she feels it is more comfortable. Or that Evan speaks faster when he is feeling nervous or when he forgets one of his lines. I believe that it is very helpful to watch others, because it can give you more confidence to go up and do it yourself. I liked watching people fail yet they kept trying it over and over again. Or when someone thought that they didn't have their speech down and then they went up and killed it. It is very cool to watch people succeed at something that you can tell they worked really hard at. I also thought it was important to watch others do their speeches because it gave you ideas on what you need to improve on. For example, of someone was moving around a lot and needed to stay still, that would make you more conscious about your body movements when you are up giving your speech.
Overall, I think I did pretty good with my speech. I know that I can and will do better next time and I'm excited for the next monologue. I'm also excited to see what monologues other people will chooses and watching them preform. If I could get better at eye contact, posture, and not fading off at the end of some of my sentences, I think that It would make a huge difference in my speech.Public speaking may be something new to me, but I'm excited to get better at it because it such a great skill to have. I am excited to get started on the new monologue and can't wait to see what the future projects will be.
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