My Best Advice:

I thought your speech was very personal. Your body language and your energy throughout the whole speech had me fully invested. I also loved the little stories that you mentioned because that is what really shows the tie you have with that object. You were relaxed in your speech but weren’t too relaxed if that makes sense. It was a really good dry run but the only thing I would comment on for advice or feedback is maybe the organization. If you have the outline I would really use it so you also don’t stumble upon your words too much and end up saying “uh.” Other than that really good!

Why It’s My Best Advice:

I feel like this comment and advice pretty much covered all the aspects we have been learning about in this course. I made sure to comment on their body language and connection with the audience, as well as their speech organization. Meanwhile when it came to a critique , I focused more on their memorization because their other speech parts were really good. Overall I think the comment was the best because it covers all the key concepts we were learning about.

Best Advice From My Peers:

I totally understand the effect injuries can have, and how awful it feels to something you cherish ripped because of it. It seems like you got a lot from teaching dance to children, so I’m glad it had a silver lining. I thought this speech was really good, and notably improved from your last one! It’s cool that you got to learn so much about another culture, and got to also share that love with others. I thought the dance moves you showed were pretty cool, and would definitely like to know more about that. I think you could pick a move to zero in on, and teach us about it, that would be dope!

Why It’s Their Best Advice:

This comment really helped me know where to go with my final. It gave me confidence in some things I wasn’t sure about, but it also gave me advice on what to change and focus on. It caused me to go back and rearrange my outline as well as my speech in a whole. So with the help of the motivation and critique I was able to post my final speech more confidently and submit something I was proud of.

My Biggest Stride:

Dry Run: https://youtu.be/9F6C3_l0RfY

Final: https://youtu.be/7wMNKzkxwo0

Looking back at the last four speeches, I think I improved on every speech between the dry run and the final. However, I personally saw the most growth with Speech 3 between the dry run and the final. When “teaching” a mastered skill in my dry run, I was very rushed and tried to get as much information in as possible. Instead of teaching anything, I just talked about the topic. This was also one of the speeches that I received the best feedback and advice that helped me decide where I wanted to go with the final. It was mention that I narrow down to a couple moves and explain them or even demonstrate them. It helped my speech take a turn for the better because it sparked the dance teacher part of my brain into creating a lesson plan within my outline. In the final, I slowed down my words, gave out important tips and tricks, elaborated on moves, and showed the costume. Before it was just a jumbled mess in my opinion and wasn’t really a video that was teaching something. I had to take the final video multiple times because I was critiquing myself a little too harshly. For me my specific good moments would be when I mention bending your knees and then describing two simple dance steps (1.32-2.18). I know this may sound silly, but I also adjusted the format of my video by propping my phone up vertically. With my phone being horizontal in the dry run, it cut off my movement and made me step farther away from the camera. This resulted in a strain of tone and volume because I couldn’t tell how loud was too loud. In the dry run, I think setting the phone up vertically helped the set up feel more like an instructional video. I didn’t do that in the dry run and I think that was one of the most important things missing from it. Obviously looking back it now there are still things I would change and alter to this day, but I’m happy with the improvement between the two videos.

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