Analyzing Your Audience
Speeches need to be audience-centered; so audience analysis is a must. Design presentation – content, organization, and delivery – is influenced by the kind of audience expected at the presentation so make sure they understand the meaning and significance of the message. For effectiveness, a speaker should know the following: 1. Who are the listeners? Try to take note of the general age, range, male-female ratio, educational background, occupation or profession, race, ethnic background, religion, geographical or cultural environment, civil status, income level and assets, group and organizational memberships, etc. of your audience. 2. What do they want from you? Are they there to receive instructions? Do they want current issues explained? Do they also want to have fun? Do they need information? Have they come on their own or were they required to attend? Voluntary audiences are likely to be homogeneous; they have things in common. Classroom students make up an involuntary audience; they are heterogeneous. They vary in many ways. 3. What is the size of the audience? How large is the audience? Is it an audience of 20 or 200? In a classroom, you would be speaking to around thirty students. But in other settings, you may be speaking to a smaller group (like a buzz group) or a bigger group (like a rally). Audience size may add to anxiety and may affect speech delivery, more so in the use of visual aids, the type of language you use, and so on. Overall, you want to speak more formally with larger groups. 4. Where is the venue of the presentation? Will the venue be a room? What kind of room will it be - a conference room, a hall perhaps, or a small meeting room? When you speak in a classroom, you are speaking in a familiar, comfortable setting. You know whether there is an overhead projector, whether the lights can be dimmed, and so on. As you do speeches, you will learn more about other settings for public speaking, like outdoor stages, or mall and hotel lounges. You may be curious to know how it feels speaking while standing at floor level. Try to learn about podiums, technological support, microphones, the sound system, and so on. Audience analysis can be done before the presentation, though most times it happens during the presentation itself. A sensitive speaker receives a great deal of information from listeners as the talk is being given. Often, the cues are nonverbal, such as attentiveness, facial expressions, restlessness, passiveness, or apathy. When these signs show, he can be flexible enough to adjust or modify to do a better job. Shifting places, gestures, voice changes, or maybe even audience involvement can prove to be useful. Here’s an example of audience analysis: Topic: A Call for Support for Dependence of Old Age Purpose: To Persuade Objective/s: The speech will seek pledges of effort, time, or money to help establish an institution to support dependency of old age. Audience Analysis: 1. Who are the listeners? · Heads/officers of civic, religious and business communities in the city · Almost equal ratio of men and women who are professionals, with high educational attainments and high earning capacity, leaders in their specific fields, dominantly Christian audience with 65% Catholics, 85% married, American and American-Chinese, some Asians · Active in social and civic works · In touch with current political, social, and religious issues · In touch with prevailing business and government situations 2. What do they want from you? · Basically interested in a topic that is relevant to their group or organization · Desire to get more information about dependency of old age, and to know more about what the speaker is going to propose/request · Want enough bases to decide whether or not to support · Came in response to a formal invitation 3. What is the size of the audience? 50 people 4. Where is the venue of the presentation? · Medium-sized case room with fixed upholstered seats in a semi-circle · 2-ft elevation in the front for the speaker · Very good acoustics · Electronic devices for presentations |
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