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Start/Stop/Continue for Speech 4

Start/Stop/Continue - Speech #4

Start: With this speech, I thought collectively my group did a great job.  There was a few interactions when talking where we could have been more smooth and that in turn would have made the dialogue more fluid. Also, because our presentation was more of a skit then a speech we had “lines” and some lines were forgotten but it is totally fine because we were able to improvise as a group and I thought we did the best job of any group in exchanging dialogue among group members. I think Taka and I could have maybe had more dialogue throughout the speech. But it was kind of hard to incorporate us. In actual shark tank pitches, the sharks aren't really talking that much because they are listening to what the presenters have to say and deciding whether they are going to invest or not. Sometimes some of the sharks don't even say anything throughout a whole sales pitch. 

Stop: This time around I don't think there was anything we have to stop. The speech went very well! We had a collective of brilliant minds with positive ideas and good speakers. We were able to come up with our speech very fast and worked on some of the video after class a few days. We all had a similar vision for how we thought the speech would come out and it came out great! 

Continue: The video was great! Shout out to Jake for doing most of that video by himself, that was hilarious! Ive watched it maybe five times and each time have laughed. Kyle did a lot of the prezi with the help of Taka and I. Taka and I decided when we were going to interrupt Jake and Kyle’s sales pitch in order to get some dialogue. Taka and I dressing up I thought was a good move on our part. We looked professional and it gave us a sort of powerful look when we were sitting down and talking. 

Moves: 

• Taka and I grabbed some of the same sized chairs from the communications lab in order to be sitting on the same level and in the same chair. All the sharks in the shark tank show sit in the same chair. We also did not want to create the illusion that one of us was more powerful then another based solely on how we were sitting in a chair. 
• Taka and I were dressed up to mimic an actual shark tank pitch and in order to look like serious business men 
• Taka and I did an opening monologue before the movie began in which we addressed the audience and welcomed to a special shark tank presentation and it also gave us time to shut off the lights and then start the movie. 
• Jake and Kyle walked in on a cue given by me so that they would walk in right when the last scene of the video ended and they opened the door 
• Our group knew that we were going to be the finale and we wanted to end all of our speeches on a good note so what we did is we created a really cool introductory movie that tied in pieces from previous speeches(i.e Spickle, Spackle, Sparkle) as well as some of our fellow classmates. We also tried to tie in other groups ideas and shark tank business pitches to get everyone involved. Which actually turned out to be pretty cool!
• Taka and I throughout the duration of the speech held notepads like the sharks do in the actual shark tank show and just pretended to write stuff down throughout the duration of the speech to insinuate that we were writing down notes about the company Ai. We also had some of our lines and cues on when to interrupt the speakers written down on the notepads which in my opinion was a solid utilization of the notepad 
• Taka and I went into a bidding war after the creators of Ai gave us their shpeel to try to make the shark tank pitch as authentic as it could be. Taka had more money then i did so we had to settle on an agreement because i knew deep down that i wasn't going to outbid the Japanese businessman 

Moves Acknowledged: 

1. I really liked Ben’s Tar off groups move and how they did the individual skits and they all played different roles and then ended it with the cheesy, “Thank you Tar Genie” line everytime 
2. Team Mccool had a few really good moves that i liked, they had the architectural plan in their slideshow that was really cool that had the whole layout of their business. They also had Steven putting on all the different hats in order to separate all the different characters he was playing 
3. Team Ling had the super dramatic video of Ling realizing that she lost her kid which was pretty cool and very authentic and relevant to their idea. 

Outline for Speech #4: Sharktank Pitch

Jake and ignatius are the representatives for the application “AI.” It is a dating site for people with common interest. Taka and myself are the sharks and we are big players in our field of choice. Kyle and Jake are coming to the shark tank and are looking for investors in their company. Taka and I are just some massive players in the game so we got a bunch of money that we may or may not throw at Kyle and Ignatius. We are going to ask them some questions and try to break them down and try to find some flaws in their plans and then determine whether we are going to invest big bucks or not. We have some funny ideas and it is going to be a good speech 

Start/Stop/Continue: Speech #3

Start/Stop/Continue:  Speech #3

Start:

• I did not incorporate a lot of pictures in my slides for this presentation which I think could have aided visually in the presentation. I didn't add pictures initially because i did not want to force any photos into slides but I still think I could have maybe incorporated another picture or two in some of the early slides.I did not use a picture in any slide until slide 5 or 6 
• I would like to start using more “Stage Area” and what I mean by this is start walking around more while speaking. Opposed to standing in one place for the whole duration of the speech. I think this strategy might be hard to implement due to the placement of the projector and the light could potentially be in your face the whole time you are pacing across the stage but, I think it would add another element to the speech that my presentation was maybe lacking 
• I would like to start looking up more at a middle point of the audience, I noticed when I watched myself present on video that I was looking down at a timer I had on one of the front desks. I think making better eye contact with the audience could help with my speech 

Stop: 

• I said “Uhh/Uhm” many times throughout the duration of my speech.I actually said it more times then I did in my previous speech. Ive had more nervous ticks in speeches as time has progressed. This is one aspect of my verbal presentations that  is the weakest in my opinion and can hopefully be resolved altogether by the next speech
• I would like to stop looking at the slideshow throughout the duration of my speech, unless maybe I am reading some statistics. I personally think looking at the slideshow throughout the presentation stalls your performance like looking at a notecard would and when you are constantly looking at your slideshow you are not looking at the audience because your head is turned which is less engaging 
• I would like to stop being so nervous because nervousness for me just results in nervous ticks which hinders the full potential of my speech 
• I have noticed that sometimes in my speech, my voice will go monotone which in my opinion causes the audience to lose interest in what you are talking about. Because how can the audience be interested in what you are saying if you don't even sound like you are interested in what you are saying how can you expect the audience to stay engaged in your presentation 

Continue:

• One of my strong suits while presenting has been that I am able to memorize a majority of my speech which in turn calls for very minimal glances at both a notecard and slideshow 
• Even though I am nervous a lot of the time I have been very good at keeping a poker face and hiding the nervousness or anxiety 
• My slideshow in presentation number two was very poorly put together in my opinion and this time around I thought my slideshow was a lot better. It had a lot of vibrant colors which I feel like was an attention grabber in itself 
• I have been able to include some comedy in all three of my speeches which has been an ice breaker and has helped me feel more comfortable while on stage 
• Ive been very good at using hand gestures in every performance thus far which I think is crucial while public speaking 
• I cited my sources verbally which I liked more than just showing everyone my work cited page at the end of the presentation and just ending on that. Because i told my audience who my sources were verbally I was able to end my presentation with a “Thank you for watching slide” 

Moves That I Liked:

1. I really liked Jake’s overly dramatic presentation I thought it was something different it definitely caught my attention and not only that it is something that has not yet been done in the class which made it memorable. The brutal images of dogs and cats was something straight out of a Sarah McLachlan animal commercial

2. Nick LaQuay had some moving pieces on his slideshow which was interesting he had  a galaxy backround and then used a nice array of colors that really popped when he put them on the dark backround. Also I really enjoyed nicks media at the end of his presentation; it was just a perspective measure for how big the universe actually is. I was really into that. I was kind of bummed when it was cut short due to time restraints it reminded me of Neil Degrasse Tyson’s show “Cosmos”

3. Linda did an overview which I really liked and was very clear and precise throughout the whole duration of her presentation. If I remember correctly, she also started her presentation with a question which was interesting. It reminded me of something you would see in a TED talk presentation 

Rough Draft for Speech #3: Why Animal Testing is Beneficial to the Human Race

• According to the Humane Society International Animal Testing is defined as the experimentation of animals which normally includes subjecting them to force feeding, forced inhalation, drug testing, lethal dosage testing, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns, the infliction of pain, Carbion Dioxide aphyixiation, neck breaking and sometimes decapitation 
• Now here is why this idea should continue to live and be practiced in our society...
• First off, Animal testing is due to many life saving treatments that have saved millions of human lives
• Some of which include Cancer, brain injuries, childhood leukemia, Multiple Sclerosis, and the technological advancements of pacemakers. 
• Some examples of this include experiments such as this one where dogs had their pancreases removed and which led directly to the discovery of insulin which is critical to this day to the treatment of diabetes
• The polio vaccine tested on animals reduced the global occurrence of polio from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012 
•  Secondly, humans and animals alike have extremely complex living systems this is important especially when testing drugs, the bodys reaction to drugs requires the testing subject to have a circulatory system and who else to test then chimpanzees who's DNA is 99% identical to human DNA. 
• Third, Humans are not the only ones who benefit from animal testing, Animals also benefit from the testing of other animals. If vaccines and remedies were not initially tested on a small population of animals many others would have died from diseases such as rabies, distemper, feline leukemia, and canine parvo virus to name a few. 

Start/Stop/Continue for Speech #2: Navigating Genres

Start/Stop/Continue:

Start:

• Using Prezi software opposed to google slides that Im already very comfortable with. In order to step outside of my comfortability zone 
• In my opening statement I only stated my first name even though my first and last name were presented on the first slide of my presentation
• Embracing the pause opposed to filling in no verbal voids with nervous ticks like “uhhms, likes and uhhs”
• The nervous ticks were very evident in this speech even more so then the last speech which is not good in terms of improvement. By speech number three I would like to eliminate almost all if not all nervous ticks from my speech. I personally think the best way to do that would be to practice more
• Being more efficient with my hand gestures. Although I feel as if I did a pretty good at using hand gestures both this speech and during speech number one. There was a fifteen second increment in the middle of the speech where I just put my left arm down to my side while i used my other arm for gesturing and it just looked awkward

Stop: 

• Using nervous ticks in my speech. I can not emphasize enough how much I want to exclude those from my speech not even in public speaking but from my rhetoric altogether
• At one point in the speech I was talking about one of the conventions and I called the voices conventions a “genre” when it was a convention. I think that was just a product of nervousness 
• The above example and at one other point in the speech I was talking about the script a radio DJ would use in helping himself stay on time while talking on the radio. I said “On time” and then stopped and repeated myself and said, “In a timely manner” those suddle imperfections I would also like to exclude from my speeches

Continue: 

• I think I did more things right then I did wrong with this speech. I made consistent eye contact with the audience for the whole presentation 
• My speaking for the most part was fluid with only two mishaps in five minutes which is solid progress 
• Both me speeches have been right on time, the first speech was two minutes and thirty seconds and my navigating genres speech was five minutes and thirty seconds exactly. Staying in a timely manner has been a strong suit for my pubic speaking 
• Practicing my speeches prior to going up and presenting them has helped me substantially it has helped me with memorizing my speech and has helped me know when to implement hand gestures
• Memorizing my speech has been one of my best attributes in speech number one I was one of the three presenters that did not use a note card 
• Projecting my voice across the room which I think shows the audience that you are confident when you are both loud and fluid
• Cracking jokes to keep the audience in tune with what I am saying. Both of speeches have been relatively comedic at points in the presentation and I think a good laugh helps the audience stay in tune with what you are saying and whatever point you are trying to get acorss/convince them of
• During my presentation I did not write everything I was going to say at every bullet point in my presentation which I noticed people tend to do it and when people do that it tends to undermine their speech because they are just reading what they wrote and not elaborating on every point. I would just write one word to a couple words on the slide and then spend anywhere from five to twenty seconds elaborating on every point which makes the slideshow itself short and simple. Rather then having twenty five slides with your whole presentation written out on it 

Moves That I Liked: 

• Daisy who did the college tour guide speech talked about the, “Walking Backwards” move and how the college tour guide will always ask the group he/she is talking to tell him/her if anyone is behind them or if they are going to run into a tree or biker etc. 
• Nick LaQuay gave us an initial overview of what the speech was going to be about. I thought that was a very good tactic. You tend to see that a lot of in TED talks and motivational speeches 
• Kyle Ignatius who did his speech on the visual sports/news website Barstool. Told us about one move the group of guys do when they are all talking smack to each other they call it the, “The Hater Ball” which I found amusing and kept me into his speech 
• Jacob gave us a move with his motivational speech(which he dressed up for, which was also a solid move!) where he told us about an acronym he had came up with on how to keep going and persevering I forget what it stood for but the acronym was A.M.E.N.D. Which not only ties into the theme of speech but acronyms are more often then not implemented into motivational speeches 

Speech #2: Navigating Genres - Radio Broadcast

1. What is a Radio Broadcast:

• Radio Broadcast: A unidirectional wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience(google definition) 
• Radio Broadcast tend to air from hubs known as radio stations
• In order to have a Radio Broadcast you must first have a Radio Station 
• People who talk on these radio stations are known as Disk Jockeys(or DJ's) 

2. Russian Nesting Doll a Radio Station: Broadcast Syndication - DJ Talking On The Radio

• Most Broadcast Syndications run on either FM or AM radio. The only difference between these two is the variation in the wave length pattern

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• Now a DJ's job at the radio station is one of many. Most importantly, he/she is supposed to make sure the music and the commercials line up and one does not cut off the other. 
• Commercials and advertisements are very important for broadcast syndications as they are for many media mediums such as television, youtube, music networks such as sound cloud and pandora etc. Because this is predominantly how these stations make there money. No commercial advertisements = no mula = no music = No DJ = no radio station. 
• A DJ also gives interviews on the radio with either musicians local legends whoever it is the station is interviewing on that day
• DJ's take calls from listeners when it comes to giving out tickets which stations tend to do. They usually have some ultimatum with listeners. For example: If you are caller number 9 and you can recite the last five songs we just played we will give you and a friend tickets to go see U2. 
• Sometimes there is two DJ's in the room at the same time having a back and forth conversation on the radio 
• A lot of the time a DJ will make his set have snippets from movies or TV shows that play on the radio as a transition and then either play a song or then cut to commercial 
• DJ's are normally talking on the radio with headphones on their ears so they can hear what they are putting onto the radio and they usually have a huge soundboard in front of them 
• A lot of DJ's especially rap DJ's tend to push sound buttons that make outrageous sounds on air such as air horns, bells, sound bites etc. 
• SHOW CLIP EXAMPLE OF RADIO DJhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccih2cO3NIE
• Do a DJ Impression: 2 minutes Long 

Start/Stop/Continue for Speech #1

Start:

• I need to start making more eye contact with the audience, although it was kind of difficult to maintain eye contact with the audience while trying to give a pitch to someone who is not there but rather is metaphorically supposed to be standing there next to you it would still be good to maybe shift my body position so I’m facing the audience more rather then solely looking to the left side of me
• I need to extend my speech a little bit longer because my speech was exactly two minutes and thirty seconds and that is cutting it pretty close. If I maybe forget a couple more lines(which is very easy to do when I’m nervous) in my speech then I start to fall under the time threshold 
• I need to include a rebuttal I did not include any retort that Zack would’ve said to me which should be included in my next speech, in order to cover the full spectrum of my sales pitch
• I need to speak a little louder, in the video recording of my speech it sounded like my voice wasn’t really projecting but I think that was due to me changing my voice slightly for the whole speech
• I need to cut down on speech ticks I did say “uhm” three times and said “like” once which is not acceptable and I expect better from myself
• I need to remember my lines better. I did not use a notecard which was a plus for my first speech of the semester but I did forget two or three lines that could have made the speech flow better and maybe could have even gotten me a couple more laughs out of the audience
• I should have practiced this speech more, I did practice only one or two days. But because the speeches are equivalent to tests in a public speaking course I should have practiced more
• On my elevator speech rubric graded by Zack, it said that I did not really make it clear where we were during the pitch. I did write on the board that we were in the communications building elevator. But I did not make that as clear as it should've been in my monologue
• I need to be able to improvise on some parts of the speech when I forget what I practiced. There was a part of the speech after talking to Zack about the backround information of Spickle Spackle Sparkle where I was then supposed to tell him about a two for one offer in a specific way but I forgot what I was going to say and I used three mental ticks to fill the time and then told him in a way that kind of veered away from the theme of the rest of the speech. 

Stop: 

• Using mental ticks to fill the time of the speech because it slows down the fluidity. And because I changed my voice for the entirety of my speech; when I used a mental tick my voice would go back to my regular voice and it was very evident in the film that the tick was a stall in the flow 
• Getting a wave of anxiety prior to going up to do my speech. Everyone has to do the same speech as I do. Yet I was so nervous prior to the speech, that my legs were shaking while I was sitting down in the class room waiting for my name to be called
• Leaving out parts of my speech that I have practiced
• I was talking to quickly for the last part of the speech and while I was talking very fast. It was maybe hard for the audience to comprehend what I was saying
• Breathe normally, I noticed my breathing was getting a little weird in the beginning of my speech because I was so nervous and it felt like I was holding my breath 

Continue:

• Speaking very confidently throughout my speech because it hides the nervousness and anxiety you are feeling 
• Not using a notecard because looking at your notecards stalls your speech temporarily and when people are holding a notecard in their hand you can see how nervous they are because the notecard is shaking
• Practicing my speech prior to going out there because a lot of people did not practice their speech prior to going up there and it was very evident
• Including some comedy in the speech because it breaks the tension in the room 
• Talking very smoothly with no blunders in my speech because once I mess up in a speech I start to get in my head and I start to think about messing up, more then the actual speech itself and then that causes a larger chance for error
• Using a good amount of hand gestures throughout your speech and continue to practice hand gestures as well. Do not just throw miscellaneous hand gestures in there once you are giving the actual speech

Elevator Pitch Rough Draft

Introduction: I am Canyon Gutierrez and the person I am stuck in an elevator with our Communications professor Zack De Pierro. I am trying to persuade him to purchase a boot preserver known as Spickle Spackle Sparkle.

Elevator Pitch: Hello Zack, its me again Canyon from your communications 131 class. Ive seen you around and every time you are in what I would consider a supreme pair of leather timberland boots. It would be a damn shame to have an exquisite pair of boots such as yours get either scuffed or wet. What are you currently using to preserve those, if you don't mind me asking?  Spickle Spackle Sparkle? Nothing? Wow. Well allow me to retort with this! I my good sir! Have got the product for you. Our operation is still very small but Spickle Spackle Sparkle; like every good company has done is starting from the bottom and work our way up. And let me tell you Spickle Spackle Sparkle is going higher then any leather preservative has gone before. Buy one container now and your investment is sure to appreciate. You got to get yours while the getting is good. An opportunity like this does not come around very often and when it does you have to capitalize. ZDP! May I call you ZDP? SURE I CAN! Ill tell you what if you buy one container of Spickle Spackle Sparkle right now before you and I ascend to the forty fifth floor. I will throw in an extra container of Spickle Spackle Sparkle for free. That is right, you heard that correctly! Your ears are not deceiving you! That is two containers of Spickle Spackle Sparkle for the price of one

about me

My name is canyon and i was born and raised in Santa Barbara. I work at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club and on my free time i enjoy hiking, tennis and playing football. I have one younger brother who lives in Santa Monica.

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