Saturday, February 18, 2012
Week 4 Question 2
Audience analysis is incredibly important in any speech. You can analyse to be able to tailor your speech to your audience. Doing so can help you give a more successful speech. You wouldn't want to give a speech to someone that not only didn't know what you were speaking about or worse didn't care. In my speech preparation, I am planning to rehearse in front of my husband and friends to see what they think of it. I will then listen to pointers. During my speech to the class, I will ask things like 'who doesn't love chocolate chip cookie dough?' I want to engage the audience by telling them how good the dough is. Then I will ask what their favorites are. Speaking to my target audience, I will attempt to speak in a way that doesn't sound like an infomercial, more like a cooking show with a host close to my own age. Audience attitudes are also important. I am taking a risk by assuming that everyone likes cookie dough. I tried to pick a neutral topic that everyone will enjoy hearing about.
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I liked your topic and how you pointed out the potential flaws of your idea. I think your speech will be interesting because engaging the audience can be a good or a bad thing. You never know how they will react to you engaging them. The other aspect is you might not act according to plan if they act one way or another. Say it goes great and everyone is participating, but that completely throws your off track from your speech or if it goes bad and that discourages you, or it goes amazing and its perfect. I think you idea of testing is a really good plan and it will also allow you to practice your reaction to their participation.
ReplyDeleteWow, just saying "chocolate chip cookie dough" just made me super excited to hear your speech next Monday! I really like your strategy that you are planning to use; telling us how good the cookie dough is will make us hungrier and actually want to hear more about the cookie dough. Practicing your speech for someone else will help a lot. They will have a different point of view and be able to tell you tips or suggestions on what to do that can help improve the interest of the audience. Good luck on the speech Monday, I am definitely looking forward to it! :)
ReplyDeleteWell I love cookie dough and I look forward to hearing your speech. I think your choice of topic is perfect as I can already see the memories you will stir up in people about their childhood. I think that by doing your speech in the way you described really will engage your audience. Your sociability will increase if you ask questions and remain friendly and responsive. Your analogy of a cooking show is a perfect one, as I can see your speech going over extremely well if it flows like a television show. The planning and preparation required for television shows are good evidence of how helpful readiness can be. You also want to be sure to be dynamic during your speech. Coming across confident yet friendly and lightheartedly are the best route to go in my opinion.
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