Challenges
...etting the meaning across to my audience. I can feel the emotions in my lines but I think I’m not portraying these emotions to the crowd. Showing a strong belief and much faith in your speech makes the audience connect with you and your reading. Once you’ve connected to the audience and you have pulled them into your speech, you have locked onto their emotions and feelings towards your reading. Standing firm behind a topic or even a state of mind is real important in public speaking. It shows how strong you believe in this statement and sometimes it can show how far you would be willing to go with it. I stand in front of my friends and tell them a joke but standing in front of an audience has always been a little difficult for me. I tend to stand there and I start to forget my lines. Sometimes I even forget my whole point entirely. Once I get going I am not so bad it’s just that first instant of stage freight that can pull me down. I want to stand out and make people remember me. The way a person gives a speech makes it their own. Whether they make you laugh or make you sleep. Making your mark is a strong way to leave a crowd. I have the symptom which others call shyness. Sometimes it takes the best of me. Just when I think I have it under control, I loose track of what I am actually trying to say and go off on another subject. This can cause the audience to be confused and unaware of what the actual topic is. Holding my head up high was sometimes a deterrent for me. Just when I think I am at my best, the rest of the audience feels like professionals to me. I think I am the only one in the room who hasn’t done this before and that’s when my stage freight takes over me. My body starts to shake as if to find its normal body pattern which has been lost somewhere in me and they are having a difficult time finding it. I try to improvise and cover up my shakiness because if you do this then you are never leaving the crowd hanging. That is the most important concept, to me, in public speaking. If you abandon the aud...