My further oral activity was based around AXE the
multi-national co-operation, but more solely focused on how they use
advertising techniques to attract the male audience. The overall feeling I had
when I was done with my presentation was that I was feeling very confident,
because I practiced it and put a lot of effort into it. Therefore when I went
to present I did not feel that nervous which made my whole presentation a lot
better, because I had confidence to talk; which I believe attracted the
audience to pay more attention to my presentation. Therefore I believe I was
very successful. By looking at the criteria I believe my strengths are definitely
criterion A and B. “A” because: I understood the material I was explaining thoroughly
well I gave detail, examples, I went into depth with my analysis etc. And “B”
because, I broke down all the language in each ad differently. For example: my
first ad didn’t really have much language but I talked about how the language
in the music in the background added to that effect, or how the second one I broke
it down in terms of language claims, and lastly the third one with the use of breaking
down the script into the four parts (supernatural, nature, man-made, and man),
they were all broken down differently to show variety and diversity and I believe
I did show that in my presentation. I chose my text because I felt that no one
has done that yet, I mean focus on “advertising techniques” and I thought it
might have been interesting to break down how one specific company uses them
(AXE). The thing I learnt most in this FOA is that it takes a lot of
presentation, I mean if you go up there with nothing prepared then it will be
harder. Therefore, there’s a lot of presentation, preparation, rehearsal etc.
By doing this it will help me later on in future FOA’s.
