An inventive speaker may take a number of creative avenues to construct an impactful speech that possesses lasting audience effect. A resourceful film student tapped into his cinematic toolkit to apply a fundamental principle of effective public speech to heighten listener involvement. Using his film training to engage the audience, he employed the technique of the second-person camera. The second-person camera views a scene from an audience rather than character vantage point. This technique replaces detached observation with the sensation of the viewer “being there.”

1. The Art Of Cinematic Public
Speech | The Magic Museum –
Interactive Book By Rick
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2. An inventive speaker may take a number of creative avenues to
construct an impactful speech that possesses lasting audience effect. A
resourceful film student tapped into his cinematic toolkit to apply a
fundamental principle of effective public speech to heighten listener
involvement. Using his film training to engage the audience, he
employed the technique of the second-person camera. The second-
person camera views a scene from an audience rather than character
vantage point. This technique replaces detached observation with the
sensation of the viewer “being there.”
The speaker applied this cinematic method to his chosen scene, a stone
garden in the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate
Park. Designing his text from an audience perspective, here follow
extracts from the speech:

3. You scan the serene landscape as you pass through the gates of the
Japanese Tea Garden. Ahead, you see the line of tourists waiting for tea
and bland fortune cookies under the thatched-roof tea house. You
watch their awkward ascents and descents over the steeply arched
footbridge. Stop laughing at that side-saddled climber balancing his
video camera…Toss a water lily onto the lap of the coppery
Buddha. Slow your step as you walk the shaded path to the quiet corner
of the garden. ‘It’s empty,’ you cheer silently. But don’t you usually sit
there alone, reflecting on the simple patch with little more than a bed of
moss and three jade-green stones? With eyes closed you visualize
running your fingers down the slopes of the smooth stones. Your
shoulders fall and relax. Your face feels as cool as the moss.

4. This audience-centered approach produced a consistent reaction. Peer
critiques uniformly praised the speech for its transporting
sense. Intending this reaction, the speaker asked classmates to express
what they had visualized. He found that his listeners had imagined
complementary detail, the dress and girth of the bridge climber, the
contemplative expression of the Buddha, the size and shape of the
garden stones. Adapting the cinematic perspective of the second-
person camera creatively generated audience involvement, a
prerequisite for effective public speech.

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