The "Who Am I" monologues were presented in completely different ways. We are all different so there can never be one that is the same. It's not easy to go up in front of an audience and describe who you really are to them, but practice makes perfect. It's impossible to get your monologue perfect on the first try. You have one, two, three, or maybe four takes before getting to your final result. Sometimes you don't enjoy your final result as much as you wanted to but that's okay. There are many factors you have to think about than just saying your speech, which in my opinion threw me off the most, but slowly improved my public speaking.
As I was watching my monologue, I was feeling all kinds of things. I noticed mistakes made but I guess that's typical for a new public speaker. I realized that my voice definitely could have been louder. I was too quiet but to be a great public speaker you need to have a loud and clear voice. I felt my annunciation and clarity with words was good by my pacing could have been better. I would start off the sentence with a nice slow pace and as I reached toward the end of a sentence I would mumble off. I should finish each sentence nice and clear. I also felt that my monologue could use a little more enthusiastic and spirit. I was too serious while presenting and could have loosened up a little bit. My posture was good, there wasn't too much swaying back and forth. There are many things I still need to work on.
I felt the memorization part is what got people the most nervous. When you have the paper right in front of you, you feel more confident in your presentation. When you don't have it, you worry you will forget the words even though you know that you know it by heart. While I was presenting, I was overthinking each line making sure I got it perfect, which unfortunately tripped me up a couple of times. Not having the paper in front of you also improves your eye contact which I felt I was good at. Feeling the pressure of memorizing it caused me to increase my speed and not pace my lines well enough. Or my next monologue I would definitely work on my pacing and memorization. I will try to speak with the loudest voice I have an properly annunciate every word without speeding up. There are the important things I need to work on.
In conclusion, my first monologue didn't go as bad as I thought it would, but there are definitely a lot of factors I need to practice and improve on. Making mistakes the first time is always important because there is no other way to learn and get better. I feel that watching ourselves perform can be sometimes stressful because we don't like the sound of our voice and we like we look silly, but it is what shows us what we are doing wrong and how to improve.
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