Delivery: The Acting Part of Public Speaking

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DeliveryThe Acting Part of Public Speaking

• Four Modes of Delivery
• Vocal Aspects of Delivery
• Nonverbal Aspects of Delivery
• Perfecting Your Delivery

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Speaking with Notes

• When you know your subject inside-out
• Most popular

• Advantages
• eye contact
• use of gestures
• movement
• audience adaptation
• Disadvantages
• Most preparation

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Manuscript Mode

• Advantages
• Prevents slips, distortion
• Disadvantages
• Allows minimum audience adaptation
• Limits gestures, movement, eye contact

• Word-for-word reading
• Most precise delivery

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Impromptu Mode

• Spur of the Moment
• Most common

• Disadvantages
• No audience analysis
• Lack of planning/ research
• Advantages
• Reveals real you
• Think on your feet

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Memorized Mode

• Advantages
• Permits maximum use of delivery skills
• Continuous eye contact
• Disadvantages
• No audience adaptation
• Recovery is difficult
• May sound memorized

• Knowing all the
• Words
• Gestures
• Pauses
• Used for
• Oratory contests
• Lectures
• Banquets

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Non-verbal Aspects of Delivery

• Substance over style
• Feelings are communicated
• 55 facial
• 38 vocal
• 7 verbal

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Non-verbal Communication

• Vocal Aspects
• Pauses
• Pitch
• Volume
• Enunciation
• Rate
• Fluency

• Body Language
• Appearance
• Gestures
• Facial expressions
• Eye contact
• Movement
• time

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Pitch

• Highness or lowness of the voice
• Singsong
• Monotone
• Statement, question, sarcasm, irony, doubt
  surprise, anger, brusqueness, friendly, kind

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Rate

• Speed of spoken language 125-190 wpm
• Adapt rate
• To self
• To audience
• To situation
• To content

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Pause

• Dramatic pause
• (allows time to think)
• Vocalized pause
• (like, um, uh, no, yknow)

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Volume

• Projection and variations
• Variations convey emotion

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Enunciation

• Pronunciation and articulation
• The risks of unfamiliar words

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Fluency

• The smoothness of delivery
• The flow of words
• The absence of vocalized pauses
• Too fluentFast talker Practice, practice,
  practice

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Body Language

• Appearance
• Gestures
• Facial expression
• Eye contact
• Movement
• Time

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Appearance

• Clothing
• Hair
• Style

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Gestures

• Support the verbal message
• Emphasize certain points
• Signal an advance to another part of the speech
• Conversational size in small setting
• Exaggerated size for large setting

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Facial Expression

• The face is capable of 5,000 expressions
• Real and feigned expressions are physically
  different
• Real smiles include eyes and brain
• Smile is most understood expression in the world

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Universal Expressions

• Anger
• Fear
• Sadness
• Disgust
• Surprise
• Happiness
• Embarrassment

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In a sense, the face is equipped to lie the
most and leak the most.
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Eye Contact

• Good eye contact improves credibility
• Conveys your relationship to the audience
• Know your speech well
• Choose a topic that is appropriate
• Concentrate on head nodders
• Find friendly faces

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Movement

• Lean forward
• Move out from behind the lectern
• Move during transitions
• Face the audience when you are moving
• Be aware of superiority
• Be aware of intimacy

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Speech Assignment Oral Interpretation

• Select a poem, play, movie monologue, childrens
  book, speech, lyrics that will provide you with
  4-5 minutes of content so that you can
  concentrate on delivery. Deliver
  extemporaneously. Plan non-verbal aspects of
  delivery