My last post to my blog! How quickly nine
weeks went, it feels like I just posted my introduction post in week one!
These activities have been beneficial for my
speech and script development. Specifically that activities that I mostly
enjoyed and found helpful where week two – ‘What makes a great speech’. This
activity I enjoyed because it made you think about and consider what you enjoy
about speeches and what speech over time whether they where from Barack Obama
or your school principal that you enjoyed and why you enjoyed them. This
activity allowed me to identify why I enjoy and believe these speeches are
great speeches. It also contributed to my speech writing as I considered these
elements. Another activity I found beneficial was week 5. Noticing how I talk.
This was interesting, as you really don’t notice how you talk until you are
asked to. It makes you consider how you speak and the way your speaking is
received. Week 7 activity to do a piece to camera I also found to be very
beneficial. As mentioned in my review of this activity, I found it very
confronting to do a piece to camera as it made me feel uncomfortable to be
followed with camera and watched by people that really didn’t have any idea of
what I was doing. This activity was a good step towards feeling comfortable
with doing a piece to camera. Finally weeks eight and nine activities where
beneficial for the completion of assessment item two. These activities made me
begin to think about the final assessment and begin working and drafting it.
At this stage I do feel that my speaking,
writing and presentation of speaking has improved. In week one I read quickly
and with little pause. Now, I feel that my speaking is clearer and appropriate
pause is used to deliver the news story or speech. This improvement has come
from the week’s activities. Particularly, from the practice of week ones news
story on SBS World News. When I first read this news story it all blended into
one and it was hard to determine the break of each topic. After reading again
and evaluating the pause the journalist had when read my reading of this
developed. This activity helped my speech overall and helped me to determine
where pause is appropriate and where it is not. Looking over news story like
this one and listening to other news stories over the nine weeks helped my
writing of speeches and news stories.
I enjoyed the whole blogging experience. At
first when I read over the task of blogging each week I really didn’t see
myself enjoying it. However it was a good way to reflect on each activity and
also a good way to practice the presentation of writing. I enjoyed formatting
my blog layout and making it look good. Have to post each week’s activities
onto my blog was useful as it made doing the activates weekly compulsory and
when you have created a ‘pretty’ blog with layout etc. you only want to post
information on there that you are happy with. This meant that I focused more on
each weeks activates then I would have if I where posting to a forum. I wanted
all my work there to be well done.
I feel relatively confident with the final
piece of assessment. I feel that after completing week eight and week nine
activates I have a better generally understanding of the task. The only worry I
have is the length of the maiden speech. Initially before completing week
eights activities I thought that there would be no way I would be able to write
a speech with the max word count being 4000 words. However after writing week
eights activities with what topics and information will be addressed in the
speech I feel that my maiden speech for assessment item two may be able to have
a large word count. Once identifying the key electoral points I feel that I can
extend on these.
Overall I feel that the past nine weeks of
activates have been a constructive way to develop my skills in speech and
script. I feel that they have allowed me to now have the ability to effectively
and professional write and deliver a speech.
