Practicing Speeches: Record

Video Transcript

"All right, what you have to do - and you have two choices here - I recommend either one. But you must either tape record your speech or video tape your speech. If you are primarily concerned about what you're saying and how you're saying it, just do the tape recorder. If you're concerned about nervous hands, what you're going do with your body, in addition to what you're going to say and how you're going to say it, then video tape it. Now, in today's day of technology surely, hopefully, you can get your hands on one or the other. I know that tape recorders have become almost obsolete, but perhaps you can tape record yourself on your computer, maybe somebody you know has a tape recorder, you might even be able to use your video camera on your phone to video tape yourself. But you have to have something non-human to tape yourself. To go back and because we're going to do a critique. And I want you to do the critique and the assessment in the initial rehearsal process rather than a human, because sometimes they don't know what they're talking about."