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.