What I learned

over the course of being in public speaking, I think I learned how to write speeches and say them out loud to an audience. I learned what makes a speech good and how to avoid pitfalls that would bore an audience. I learned how to debate topics and research arguments for topics. I think I grew like a centimeter over the course of the class, or I just think I did, either way I also grew my skills as a debater and speech writer. I think I could have done a better job with editing my end project video and I think I could be better at staying focused on what I'm saying. Well from here I'm going to take acting class in block D for the rest of the year, so my goals now are to be a better actor. I think I accomplished what I set out to do, I just did not do as well as I hoped on some.

video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPnPg_Fvts

Things to improve the speech about cliches

1. I could do with more of them lovely examples. I've only gotten three which I thought was over doing it but as my speech reviewer pointed out, I could do more of that. Maybe people like getting beat over the head with examples. I dunno.
2. I should probably start thinking where I'm going to incorporate my other media elements. Like I've only thought about the begining in terms of that. I honestly don't know how I'm gonna incorporate it into the rest.
3. The ending needs a good mount of work, I put my take away inside a paragraph that isn't a conclusion. So I should work on that to make it a better ending overall.
4. I've already got audience interaction down because of my millions of questions within the speech but I don't think I would have he audience paying that much attention over the time of the speech so Prehaps I should make a few jokes, like exaggerating the Russian stereotype for example.
 That's all I got, ttyl

First draft of Ted talk

             you've probably watched the end of a movie exactly like this, narration is played at the begining and at the end with new meaning. Then the main character says something about how life is now good and the world is all rainbows and unicorns. This is a common cliche in family or romance movies. Cliches are the bane of a movie goers existence because they are unoriginal and lame. The last thing you wanna see when you pay 20+ dollars to go see a movie is a unoriginal and lame one. Many people just get annoyed when they see a cliche. They don't think about it and move on. But what if cliches had a bigger part of our life then anyone seems think.

           What do you know about guns? Unless your someone who owns a gun you probably don't know much about them but what you do know comes from media. And which media uses more guns than any other? Movies. What people know about guns, how they fire, the sounds they make, the amount of bullets they have, are all movie cliches. Why is it a movie cliche? Cause it's pretty much all false information. Many people would think that they could shoot a gun indoors but if you ever did you'd probably suffer hearing loss for quite a while. 

           How about other countries? What do you know about Russian people? Is the image that comes to mind, a alcoholic who's big and burly and also is an evil henchman? That's what I think of when I hear about Russians. This stereotype comes from action movie cliches about Russians. It's interesting to note how if you started talking about black stereotypes as true you'd be a racist but I've never heard anyone get upset about a Russian stereotype. But why? It's because cliches in movies desensitize us to it. We become accustomed to seeing it therefor we A. Think it's true and B. Think it's acceptable.
           What about mental illness? Moives love to potray someone as mentally unstable, crazy, and a sociopath. What they usually show are terrible charactures of actually mentally ill people. Many people are scared of those deemed as such for this very reason, they think that they'll hurt them because they are crazy. It really couldn't be further from the truth, while mental patients can be violent, they are far more likely to hurt themselves before they hurt you. While revealing that the main villain is unhinged can be a dramatic twist, I don't think their characters could come close to a true mental illness. 

           Several things you'd probably never think about because of your supposed knowledge may infact be false. Movies while the last place you should find actual knowledge are often accepted as to be true if only because it comes from movies. The point of movies is to draw you into the screen, into its world and thus we usually believe what we see when it's an especially good movie. Yet even when it's not, one movie's cliche is probably in another and slowly we grow accustomed to seeing it and believing it to be true. What I ask of all of you is to question where your knowledge comes from, if it be from a movie or a textbook and to question wether this knowledge is right or wrong. 

Topic relatization

movie cliches are the bane of modern movie goers existence, the plight of seeing the same plots, hooks and charaters is a tragedy of the modern age. Cliches usually are the result of lazy screen writing or wanting to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Most regard them as boring and over used but what if they were something more, something that shapes how we see the world. Take for example guns, in movies they are potrayed as unlimited ammo death machines that never offer and recoil or hurt the users ears when rapidly firing them. Many people think this way about guns, never holding one in their life their perception of them comes from what they see of them and about them. Cliches in that way have a significant hold over how the population views something, because if you see the same cliches over and over again about a topic we have little knowledge of then the cliche becomes our knowledge of the subject. This is because it is hammered into our brains whenever we see it a constant reminder of mostly false information. Serveral ideas we have come from cliches, true love, violence, heroism, drug dealers and so on and so forth.
I figure this to be my body and begining. I'll probably add to it. The take away would go like this.
All I ask is that when you think something, think about why you think that way. Not all of our incorrect assumptions and information comes from movie cliches, some can even come from your own mother. You gotta ask yourself why you view the world a certain way and where those views really come from.

Topics ideas and the like

My topic is movie cliches
I could start out with describing a scene from a movie we've all watched at least a dozen times (happy ever after ending) (narration from begining is at end with new meaning) stuff like that, or I could just show it, or I could do both.
The body of my speech is gonna be about how cliches mold our views of the world and how it works from a young age. Give examples like (how guns work) (how love works) stuff like that. I'd talk about how this can lead to negitive or positive stigmas about things such as all crime is perpetrated by Russian mafia or how if you don't act like this a certain way when you love somebody it isn't true love.
The takeaway is that what we expose to our children and ourselves, even innocent movies about love can shape how we perceive and act in the world.

Peter Pan: a awkward tale

Let me say right off the bat that I didn't hate this play or the performances of any of the actors. It was not the worst thing I've ever seen but it did have its failings. Overall the play had a good cast, the production value was lacking of course and the script left a lot to be desired. It's run time was satisfactory, I didn't feel as if I was there forever and it wasn't too short though I did start to get anxious towards the end.
       The cast of charaters in the play had a variety of performances ranging from good to very poor, no one in the play was terrible I feel though the weren't really putting effort into their roles and no one was excellent. Even Charlotte who was the best actor felt  flat at times and preformed way better as the mother then as a pirate. Peter Pan was played by areon who's preformance was mixed as well, at times I felt she did somewhat well with her role and others just seems as she was playing herself.  Wendy played by vepca who I felt was good at her role but it wasn't a strong performance. The brothers played by maddy and whoever were ok, the older brother being the better then maddies performance. Maddy's performance was simply talking like herself without having any emotions to her lines and it was rather annoying and detracted from the entire experience, it didn't help that her voice is grating. The side charaters such as the lost boys, the extra pirates and the Indians were all done well for what they were.
         The production value of the play was of course cheap but it was creative for what they did, I felt however that the visual representation of tinker bell wasn't neccisary and the alligator was more humous then scary and was a bit underwhelming. The sets were good for what hey had to work with and nice enough so it didn't take away from the experience.
         The script for this play was horrible, they said it was supposed to be "darker" but ended up having way to much redundant dialogue and failed humor. The dialogue is one of the main reasons I'm not faulting anyone for weak performances because it is honestly one of the worst attempts to recreate human speech that I've ever seen. It was like watching a chat bot try and pretend to be human . I however thought that the Pirates had the best lines especially the villain Captain Hook and that the interaction between the Pirates and Peter Pan at the lagoon while dumb and corny was actually kinda funny. To recap this play was nowhere near good but it was ok and I give it 6/10.