Public Speaking Video Barack Obama

Public Speaking

Dynamism:
1. Barack Obama, from my point of view i think is a varied speaker he mixes things up and doesn’t repeat what he has done previously in the speech.
2. At the beginning he didn’t emphasize much in important arguments and words; he had the same face and was very serious. But then as he went on and on, he started to get more “excited” and enthusiastic.
3. One thing that I thought was very evident was that this man was not trying to be anybody else. He was very natural and this made people believe him and at the same time take him seriously.
Voice:
1. Obama pretty much kept the same tone of voice during the speech, in one moment he lowered it a little too much but then he went to his normal volume.
2. His tone was very appropriate for the occasion he didn’t speak in an unusual way or out of character tone.
3. His speed was fine, sometimes he went a bit fast but you could understand him. He never slowed down.
Gestures:
I noticed that at the beginning of his speech he kept his hands all the time in the counter where the microphone was, but when the speech was at its end he used a lot of hand gesture and he looked very energetic, this made him increase dynamism.

Face.
I think Obama did a very bad job with the facial expressions. He was very serious and didn’t show much emotion in the face. He was very serious during the whole speech, towards the end he started laughing a little bit but in regards to his face expressions he showed no emotion at all.

Physical Elements of Speech:
A. When the speech began I remembered the exercise we performed this morning. His diaphragm was crooked therefore he couldn’t speak for that long before he had to breathe.
B. He didn’t speak by his nose so his voice was pretty normal.
C. He took a breath after every sentence which is the correct thing to do and he released the air at the end also.
D. His nasal qualities were good as a said before.
E. Considering this was a very serious speech he obviously didn’t speak with a pen in his mouth, I think that is a rule which is a bit ridiculous to mention because no one would ever do that. But he didn’t have anything in his mouth which could interrupt our understanding.

CLASS RUBRIC

1. Dynamism
2. Clarity/Credibility
3. Gestures
4. Content

1. At the beginning he was not being very dynamic but then he started making more hand gestures and expressing himself more. What he failed on doing were the facial expressions.
2. His clarity was perfect I understood everything he said. His credibility was not so good from my point of view. It was like he was just telling us a story and not trying to convince us of anything.
3. At the beginning he didn’t do gestures of any kind. The n he started doing a little bit with the hands. Facial expressions were very lame he just smiled once in a while.
4. The content of the speech I didn’t like it very much. I think issues with Negro people etc are very very powerful subjects. I think he could have made a much greater speech and still transmit the same message. I didn’t like the examples he gave, neither that he was focusing a lot on himself and his situation rather than on the worlds issue. Also he didn’t do a good and powerful conclusion.