In the persuasive speech of drinking, Matthew Naso, demonstrates
good control over his sentences. Although there were some slight fumbles within
the speech, he got his point across, calmly, which was directed at his targeted
audience. What’s even more important was the fact he chose the demographic group
of a younger audience, specifically college students. I think what helped out the
most to argue his speech was the statistics he used during it. His standpoint
on drinking was clear that he wanted people to use better judgment, creating
clear values for the speech. Also, Courtney Stillman’s speech on Light
Pollution had the same concept. She was arguing her standpoint on how light
pollution is becoming a larger problem in society. The only difference in her’s
and Naso’s speech was the fact she was addressing a much larger audience. She
was arguing that it’s not just a certain group’s problem, but an entire community
all together. I think they both had to do some audience analysis in order to
interest the majority of who they wanted to listen. I believe that I’ll look at
these videos with in ideal perspective as to who I should be trying to interest
in my upcoming speech.
In the light pollution video it's kind-of difficult to tell if the speaker really employs audience analysis, because the excerpt is so short. Based on the portion of the speech that was available and my own reaction I would have to say that from my perspective she did not use very good audience analysis. I'm also basing this on the fact that she seems to be appealing to a very broad audience. Anyways, the reason I say this is because when using audience analysis you are supposed to use techniques to interest the audience so that they will find your speech both informative and engaging. However, although the clip was only about half a minute I found myself being quite bored. I think also it is how she presented herself. On the positive side, she did a pretty good job of laying out her different points of discussion within her introduction. I would likely check out her intro again in trying to put mine together.
ReplyDelete