Speech #3 Reflection
For our group speech, we created mock wedding toast. My part of the toast was being father of the bride. I tried to get into character when thinking about what to say during the speech. Since I bar tend many weddings over the summer, I had a good idea on the things most fathers of brides say in their toast. I thought one of my strengths of my speech was using actual stories I have heard and implementing them into my toast. This made my speech seem more real than fiction. I dressed up for the part which made it seem as if it were a real situation. I also thought that my tone was good because I wanted to make sure everyone heard what I was saying. There was a couple times during the speech when I looked at my notecards just because I had them in my hands. This took away from keeping eye contact with the audience which I will continue to work on for the next speech.
I thought as a team, we presented the toast very well. The introduction was well put together and we had clear transitions from person-to-person. We all tried to help each other by coming up with ideas for each parts in the toast. During the speech I thought everyone did exactly what we had planned and spoke very clearly with emotion making it seem real. I was happy with the way everyone put the same effort into the speech. Maybe one thing we can improve next time is eye contact because I think we tended to look at the picture on the screen a little too much as if it were the bride and groom.
Overall, I thought the group presentation went very well. I think we work well together as a group and everyone seems to do their part making it easier on the other group members. We had a few group meetings to make sure we knew exactly how everything was going to work. Since this was our first speech as a group, I think we will continue to contribute in equal parts for the next speech. I am not worried at all for the next speech which is over chapter 15 because we all worked well together.