My Commemorative Speech: My Uncle, Robin Speedie

In my commemorative speech I was able to commemorate my uncle, Robin Speedie. As I was looking through my speech video cast I noticed strengths and areas I could improve in. My strengths in my speech are: (1) My body language. I moved around the room, not staying in the same position. Also, moving my hands while giving my speech and making a connection with the audience by laughing at my own stories and showing eye contact to the audience. (2) Voice Fluency. I was actually surprised by this. As I was looking through my speech, my voice was not like a robot. My voice went high and low. The fluency of my voice matched with what I was saying in my speech. For example, when I asked a question I raised my eyebrows, made eye contact, and my voice was high. When recalling memories from my past, I still had eye contact but you could see the events happening before my eyes. (3) Providing facts and information. We didn’t need to make …show more content…
Aside from having strong strengths I still had some things to work on. Some of these are: (1) Volume of my voice. I noticed when watching my speech video cast that some parts of my speech were hard to hear. I should have raised my voice at the parts of the speech. This was a personal error. I thought I was speaking loud enough but it’s important that I keep that in mind. (2) Changing my position. I wished I could have moved more towards the center of the room. The reason why is because I faced my group of classmates, not to the entire room. It probably could have made my speech better and would have been easier to work on my body language. (3) Repeating words. Since I didn’t have an outline with me on stage, I was basing my entire speech off my memory. When I was giving my presentation, I didn’t realize that I was repeating some words or sentences over and over. For example, “we wanted to visit him. Sadly, sadly he didn’t let us.” This only happened in a few parts of the speech but something I do want to work