Last Speech Reflection

As a whole, I do not believe that this was my best speech, but there were parts of this speech that I believe that I did better on than the last speech. Like B.B. King I love to learn and hope that in my next speech I will notice new areas of growth in my speaking ability. My reflection begins with eye contact and body movement, moving on to the use of voice, and ending with the organization of the speech. Opening with delivery, the thing that stuck out the most was that my eye contact was poor at best. In the beginning of the speech, I looked around more, but when I came to material I did not know as well, my eyes were glued to the page. I did not make use of planned gestures but I did gesture with my hands throughout the presentation. I …show more content…
I like the way that I laid out the introduction, and I covered all of the main points I wanted to. The introduction was my favorite part of the speech, during the introduction I did a good job scanning the audience and my voice did not shake, I almost seem confident through that part of the speech. The only thing I would change is that I would pick a different attention getter, because the video clip I chose did not seem to draw the audience in the way it was meant to. I believe that my speech flowed well it was very easy to move from one point to the next because they fit together nicely. If I did it again I would add another transition in between when I was talking about his early life and Lucille. I was thinking about these two things as both being part of the early part of his career, but I do not think that I portrayed this and it seemed choppy moving from one to the next. The only transition I had was between main points of his early life and the legacy he has today. All of the content in my speech was very relevant and it outlines most of who B.B. King was as a person and his career. I ended with a quote and then summed up what I had just talked about, leaving them with hopefully a little bit more knowledge of B.B. King. For next time I would change up the order of the conclusion I would begin by summing up and then end the speech with a quote. Possible leaving them with something to think about after my speech was