Speech Analysis (Cameron Russel Ted Talks)
THE SPEECH ANALYSIS REPORT
(Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model)
In 2012, Cameron Russell, who has been a model for Victoria’s Secret and Chanel, and appeared on many magazines, gave speech about “Genetic Lotteries” and how it effected her life on TED. The main aim of this speech was to make people realize being a model was just a legacy from their ancestors and it didn’t always make them happy. Generally, I found her speech interesting but I thought sometimes she had difficulties in engaging to her topic.
Firstly, the introduction was really nice. The speaker used her voice at exactly right level and made the listeners get interested and laugh a couple of times although she seemed really nervous at the beginning. Her hand gestures and eyetoeye contact with the audience was visible even from the screen. The visuals she preferred were about her and her carrier so they helped us get to know her. She also didn’t forget to introduce herself. The speaker came to the stage wearing a really short dress and changed into regular clothes. This way she changed people’s opinions quickly. One of the things not quite well about her introduction: Changing the clothes took too long. She wore a skirt, took off her shoes, wore another one etc. The viewers and the audience got bored of waiting her to get dressed. On the other hand, it was really great to see a supermodel turn into a normal person. Another problem about her introduction was that she didn’t mention her topic, there was no outline. It was hard to understand what she was talking about, her ideas weren’t really clear. While doing her introduction she used many transitions and signposts which helped the audience and viewers to follow the the speaker easily. To sum up, even if she forgot to tell the outline, her introduction was really great.
Secondly, during most of the body of the speech she jumped from one subject to another. First she was talking about the Black rates of models
(Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model)
In 2012, Cameron Russell, who has been a model for Victoria’s Secret and Chanel, and appeared on many magazines, gave speech about “Genetic Lotteries” and how it effected her life on TED. The main aim of this speech was to make people realize being a model was just a legacy from their ancestors and it didn’t always make them happy. Generally, I found her speech interesting but I thought sometimes she had difficulties in engaging to her topic.
Firstly, the introduction was really nice. The speaker used her voice at exactly right level and made the listeners get interested and laugh a couple of times although she seemed really nervous at the beginning. Her hand gestures and eyetoeye contact with the audience was visible even from the screen. The visuals she preferred were about her and her carrier so they helped us get to know her. She also didn’t forget to introduce herself. The speaker came to the stage wearing a really short dress and changed into regular clothes. This way she changed people’s opinions quickly. One of the things not quite well about her introduction: Changing the clothes took too long. She wore a skirt, took off her shoes, wore another one etc. The viewers and the audience got bored of waiting her to get dressed. On the other hand, it was really great to see a supermodel turn into a normal person. Another problem about her introduction was that she didn’t mention her topic, there was no outline. It was hard to understand what she was talking about, her ideas weren’t really clear. While doing her introduction she used many transitions and signposts which helped the audience and viewers to follow the the speaker easily. To sum up, even if she forgot to tell the outline, her introduction was really great.
Secondly, during most of the body of the speech she jumped from one subject to another. First she was talking about the Black rates of models