Accidental Readers

Hello, if you are reading this, then you've decided to see what this blog is all about. But let me tell you there's not much here. This is just something I made for school a few years ago and it covers my daily activities during the semester in my speech class. If you're insanely bored or somehow interested, then feel free to read what you want but I'm just warning you that this is boring.

MSDOSPromtu

Today I gave another impromtu speech. The last one I gave was over the phrase "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted then used against you." Today's impromtu was the topic of the role of audience analysis in speech crafting. I always make sure that I think of enough material to use the full 5 minutes of speech time, but when it comes to the organization, I have almost none because I usually can't think of my whole speech and write down the mains points in the 2 mins of preparation time. I think of building a presentation in the same way I see them. I guess I prepare speeches more like I form a conversation, I just go from the beginning of the topic to the end in chronological order rather than dividing it up into particualr segments to cover at certain stages in the speech. So when I want to give a strong speech that's organized well, I have to spend a lot of time planning it.
Next week is the due date for the infomercial project and if it gets done right, I think my group's will be great. I have some video editing experience from my own video productions so I am prepared to add alot to this project. I just hope that the topic will be good enough to base the details around. Right now we are planning to use an idea that I came up with when I was in high school for a class assignment that never got finished. My econ class started a small business and I was elected head of the advertising department. I had a great video idea for the promotion of the product and I got the filming done, but never got the resources to complete it so this could be my chance to finally finish it. haha

Das Kommt Darauf An...

Yet again, I haven't posted in a while. Just recently, my group gave the presentation on scarcity. Before that were the problem speeches. I gave my problem speech on IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder) which actually hits home. haha I spend way too much time on the internet so this topic was a very good one for me to research and discuss. I wanted the video to turn out better than it did, but I didn't put enough time into editing it and I didn't make sure the sound was up and the lights were down when I showed it. But it was still there and added some sort of a random unexplainable touch to the overall presentation. lawl But I really do need to decrease my internet usage time, or else I'll get square eyes... ...or they'll just get really bad. haha

The long awaited debate against the two most prominent candidates.

Today was the day that the class gave the second team teaching speeches. Ours was quite underprepared, but we managed to do something, which is better than nothing. I put together our power point and found an article to base it off of. I don't know how well all that ended up being, but for the skit/class activity, we improvized a debate for presidency between Shannon and I. It turned out to be pretty interesting, I think. I can't really tell though because my mind was focused on the logic in my actions and spontaney of my topics. I guess the things I said, based on the audience's reaction, were kinda funny. I started bashing Shannon's dependability as an authority figure by stating that she had bad relationship problems and that she was a child beater. Stuff like that.

Utada Hikaru Iwashita Hikki Cubic U

Well, I gave my informative speech two days ago and today was the midterm exam. I forgot to post about my speech on the day that I gave it so since I took the midterm based on my evaluation of it, this blog can serve as posts for both days technically (since I would be talking about basically the same thing either day). I felt like I didn't prepare nearly as much as I should have. the only run through I did of my speech was before it was even complete. I had one version of it complete when I first came in with intentions of giving it, but we ran out of time in class before I gave it so I had some time to go over it and change what I wanted. I ended up redoing some of the outline and adding more to it and alot more to the video. My first video was about 2 and a half minutes, and my second version was over 5. I felt kinda wierd giving a speech about something I actually cared about for a change. Usually my brain is seperated into two main sections of mood- happy things mood, and school things mood. Mixing the two moods together was new and interesting. I've only ever been able to give a speech about something I liked on a rare few occasions. Those were in highschool. Not to sound obsessed over Utada Hikaru though...even though I am. haha I actually had it written in my notes to talk about all the obsessed nerds out there who love Utada and me not being excluded from that group. lol If anybody from class is reading this and wondered what I said at the end "Ima no watashi wa anata no shiranai iro." that was just a line from one of her songs meaning "Now I am your unknown color". I gotta go now. Sayonara!

So the plot unfolds...

The title was completely random, pay it no mind. :) I've missed the past week of my blogging duties, blogs that would have proved memorable if looked at through the eyes of my future self. But oh well, there's always today. About today: we learned about capsicum! yay... And that you feel like burning fire if you eat one because of the capsaicin in the seeds!!! yay... But anyways, I'm still unsure of my informative speech topic. I'm inbetween ideas. There's my first idea about traveling abroad, and then there are other things that I might find more interesting to tell the class about...like maybe Japanese sensation Utada Hikaru. But I don't know if she's an acceptable topic. I need to do a bunch of research and overview, and then I can make my decision. But I sure could make an interesting speech out of Utada, and considering how obsessed over her I am, research wouldn't be a large part of the speech. But who knows, I might also enjoy talking about my trip to China and how it affected me. I guess we'll see. Jaa mata.

New groups

Today there was a quiz over chapter thirteen. Chapter thirteen covered the art of using visual aids during a speech. Raul showed the class how to use certain computer programs to alter pictures that make for more interesting visul aids. I think I will definately use this technique many times because I love messing with digital art. We were assigned our team teaching projects which we needed groups for. My group has the concept of what we plan on doing, but we won't start putting it into action until tuesday's class. But I'm not telling what it's about. It will be due a week from today, on the 7th. That's all for today's review.