Speaking Event Analysis

Some time ago I attended a speaking event that was on some of the atrocities of the Rwandan genocide, told from the perspective of a survivor who lost his entire family during the tragic event. The speaker’s media was effective in the way that it inspired true emotion and sympathy from the audience. Personally, the images that were shown both touched and disturbed me, and even brought me to tears (which is not an easy task).  He used photos and video interviews that he had taken himself that depicted the pure evil and unimaginable actions perpetrated during the Rwandan Genocide. Although he effectively inspired emotion in the audience, I did feel that he relied a bit too much on his presentation media, while under-preparing his actual oral presentation.  Also, although much of his presentation was very informative and awe-inspiring, it seemed at some points that he was just kind-of adding filler. I feel that there was a point where the audience was just a little bit overburdened with the presentation media. I would suggest that he work more on his oral presentation and limit his media presentation. Although much of the media was effective, the sheer volume of it made the information begin to just kind-of blend and lump together, rather than enhancing individual aspects of the topic. Also I would suggest that he weed out some of the less significant and impacting images so as not to take away from the really powerful ones. I think part of the problem there was that because he was so deeply affected by the tragedy, he focused his speech more around his own agenda rather than catering to the audience.