Informative Speech Class

The informative speech was one that I actually enjoyed. I was able to inform the class about something I was passionate about, and I learned some stuff that I didn't previously know about. To prepare I made an outline and a few handy notecards. I didn't practice it at all. I wanted to see how a speech would go with no practice. The time was perfect-right at five minutes. I was relieved to have the time be correct because when I read my outline in class I could have easily gone over six minutes. I felt relaxed in front of the audience because we had already given a speech before. I was a little nervous since I didn't know one hundred percent what I was going to say. Upon completion of the speech, I was just glad to be done. It's nice to know that I don't …show more content…
It's not a huge deal. The main point of the video wasn't to analyze, but to get hyped since it was my attention-getter. As long as the loud music played and something was on the screen to hold their attention for thirty seconds, I was golden. The difference between this speech and the last was that this one took more preparing. This was due to having to research. With the SHIELD speech, it was easy to go up there with one or two words on a notecard and go off of it. It's your life, so it's super easy to talk at least four minutes about. You really need to know what you're going to talk about with the informative because it would be easy to get off track. Also, knowing where to throw in your sources is important. If you say them all right away, it could seem like you are trying to take the easy way out, or you aren't able to fit it in well with your speech. Fitting them in with your speech is vital to having a smooth speech with everyone catching your vibes. Next time I'll probably read through it once or twice to be sure I meet the time limit since I was a little bit nervous during the speech of not making the time