Yesterday, I gave my speech to my schoolmates. I am glad that the election committee recorded this video because I really don't know how I did in my public speaking. And now I can play it back and evaluate my strengths and weaknesses ... a good way to improve ;p
Anyway, here it is. It is 1.13 hour long. My speech starts at around 9 min 55 sec.
http://ksgvideo.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/kssg20070926election.rm
Edit: After reviewing my own video, I can't help but notice a few things:
- I think I need to smile more when I speak in a serious tone, else I look intimidating and unfriendly ... hahah ... which is obviously not the case, if you know me personally. And smiling matters a lot in winning over people's hearts
- I am glad that my speech didn't consist any "uhm"s, "err"s and "ahh"s. However, I need to further analyze this by a longer public speech next time as this was too short. Only 2 minutes of talk time.
- Also, because of the time constraint, I didn't prepare a draft. I think it has good and bad points. Good point is that it makes the speech and presentation more natural and smooth. Bad point is that I don't have something to refer to for information and content. Most people there brought their draft along and can be seen reading from it at times.
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hey dude, nice speech. I didn't see many other speeches except for the guy immediately after you and i already realized his uhm's etc. Yes in terms of your smile, i agree, u need to smile a bit more. May be it was tension but i think your seriousness didn't let your passion come through as much. I'm not that great a speech maker but i definitely like to have a draft or points in note form to follow. I have experienced stage frights before and I have frozen in front of my whole school lol, that was not a good experience but it was definitely a good learning experience. I also like how you used stories to illustrate your examples. Good job and good luck!!
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