Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Week 4 Question 1
The videos this week were a new perspective for me. I never thought to gather the audiences' response to better the next speech. In the drinking speech I thought that Matthew did a great job by getting our attention at the beginning of the speech. To run off and pretend to vomit to make a point was very smart of him. Then he immediately started off with some scary statistics that I thought did an equally good job of getting my attention. Unfortunately the rest of the video did not play even after several attempts. The other videos, however, did give me some insight as to how to get information from the audience. It is a good thing to see how many people in the audience actually understood or even knew what you were speaking about. By asking both closed and open ended questions the speaker is able to gain the knowledge required to better prepare for and give the speech the next time.
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I do agree with your opinion about Matthew's opening in which he impersonates a drunk person to get his audiences attention. But some our classmates have negative view on this performance. However, according to social psychology, one of effective message contents is arousing fear that most audiences respond to the messages which more scared them (Robberson & Roger, 1998). As Myers has points out that “messages can also be effective by evoking negative emotion” (166). For example, I am really sick at hearing the Geico’s pig yelling, but I do deeply remember the commercial. So, if you ask me to give you an example of commercial, I will right away tell you- the pig.. Thus, I do believe Matthew’s opening is a successful strategy to get his audiences responds, no matter how the audiences react to this performance.
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Myers, D. G. (2009). Exploring Social Psychology. New York: McGraw-Hill