All this talk of international speech contests and tracking pages is making me want to try it this year. But I have a question:
The speech I'm thinking about entering would be a trimmed-down version of a longer manual speech I gave with computer graphics. But is depending on a computer projector a bad idea for international speech contests?
I've been told that it's okay and fairly common, and I know there will be one available at the club and area levels (because my club is hosting the area contest this time); but the few tapes I've seen of higher-level International competitors never involve a projector. Is a projector seen as helpful, or an annoying gimick? Am I better off cutting out the computer graphics part?
Conventional advice would tell you to lose the projector. Too many
potential problems technology wise, and potentially judging wise.
However, if you can do it REALLY well, who's to definitively say it
won't work?
All great speakers have to determine the risks vs. the benefits of
singing, falling, wearing jeans, standing on chairs, using props, sign
language, getting the audience to stand.....what you choose to do is
truly up to your belief in your ability to make it work.
Rich.
On Feb 22, 4:57 pm, Akkana Peck <akk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All this talk of international speech contests and tracking pages
> is making me want to try it this year. But I have a question:
> The speech I'm thinking about entering would be a trimmed-down
> version of a longer manual speech I gave with computer graphics.
> But is depending on a computer projector a bad idea for
> international speech contests?
> I've been told that it's okay and fairly common, and I know there
> will be one available at the club and area levels (because my club
> is hosting the area contest this time); but the few tapes I've seen
> of higher-level International competitors never involve a projector.
> Is a projector seen as helpful, or an annoying gimick? Am I better
> off cutting out the computer graphics part?
It's an idea I've toyed with; the problem, though, is that it's hard
to anticipate in advance how large the room will be, what the layout
will be, will the projector image be big enough, will it have
sufficient contrast to be seen clearly by everyone, will it be located
in a place that your remote will reach, will it be located in a place
where people will spend too much time looking at it and not enough
time looking at you.
I've seen projectors used well, most recently at a humorous speech
contest. But as Rich says, it requires a good degree of anticipation
and a good degree of flexibility for different environments. And in
the end, I'd recommend that you be ready to give your speech without
it, just in case, say, a bulb goes out on the day.
If you feel good about it, I say go for it. We should never be
constrained about how we approach what we think is a great speech and
a great delivery. Preparing for the contingencies will be a good part
of rehearsal in case, say, you ever need to do a business presentation
on the road for a larger audience. I think it could be a good
experience, with a lot of potential for learning.
> It's an idea I've toyed with; the problem, though, is that it's hard
> to anticipate in advance how large the room will be, what the layout
> will be, will the projector image be big enough, will it have
> sufficient contrast to be seen clearly by everyone, will it be located
> in a place that your remote will reach, will it be located in a place
> where people will spend too much time looking at it and not enough
> time looking at you.
> I've seen projectors used well, most recently at a humorous speech
> contest. But as Rich says, it requires a good degree of anticipation
> and a good degree of flexibility for different environments. And in
> the end, I'd recommend that you be ready to give your speech without
> it, just in case, say, a bulb goes out on the day.
> If you feel good about it, I say go for it. We should never be
> constrained about how we approach what we think is a great speech and
> a great delivery. Preparing for the contingencies will be a good part
> of rehearsal in case, say, you ever need to do a business presentation
> on the road for a larger audience. I think it could be a good
> experience, with a lot of potential for learning.
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