The Fascinating Secret Lives Of Giant Clams Analysis

I watched the Ted talk video, “The fascinating secret lives of giant clams” by Mei Lin Neo. This speech essentially entails information regarding giant clams, such as their basic size or growth status and most importantly how important/essential they are to their aquatic environment/ecosystem. While this speech was well presented and very informative, there are a few points in which Mei Lin Neo falls short on. Starting with her good points first, she was very confident regarding her topic, which can be seen through her enthusiasm and passion. As even from the start of her speech you can see the amount of good energy she held and seem to transfer to her audience throughout her speech. Her vocal tone was loud throughout and she did a very good …show more content…
Although as I stated before that it worked very well and elevated her speech, it also caused a moment of awkward silence at one point. As when she tried to introduce the fossil of the giant clam cell in a magical magician sort of way. The audience didn’t appear to be very impressed and the silence that followed was enough to make it cringe worthy, though thankfully it pasted rather quickly. I also felt as if the title of her speech alluded to the truth behind the speech, as it really intel the lives of the giant clams, but more of their conservational importance. Therefore, I felt that if her title was changed to something more along the lines of relating to the speech it wouldn’t have left the feeling of needing more out of her speech. As I felt it left my wondering when in fact she was going to get to the ‘point’ of her speech essentially, and what was this fascinating life these giant clams held? Which was a question that was what I felt left unanswered and left me dissatisfied in a way, as the reason I had clicked on the video in the first place was to find out this cool little fact about the life of the giant clam. Instead I was met with conservation importance and one cool fact about how giant clams ‘walk’, which although was fine for me due to my love of all animals. Many others may not have shared my same outlook on animals, especially considering many not caring about an animal such as giant clams. Since Mei Lin Neo talked about how important this giant clams are to conservation, I felt like she should have added ways the audience can help or current conservational methods being done to protect these creatures. As I felt that it would have added an extra bit of insight and correlation with her speech, as well as a course of action for the audience. Which in a way I felt would have made them more prone to help conserve these creatures and their natural