Pitch Reflection

The main appeals that I used in my pitch presentation were humor, intensity, repetition, charisma, flattery, new, autonomy and psychological needs. I combined these appeals in my presentations because I believed that they would appeal to the audience. I tried to incorporate ethos, logos and pathos in my speech as much as possible in order to grasp the audience's attention.  I decided that these appeals would be effective because I wanted to sound entertaining yet professional because the Casio Keytar is supposed to be an entertaining musical instrument and I wanted to give that same feeling to the audience.

The persuasive techniques that I mostly focussed on was on intensity, the idea of new and charisma and flattery which are all factors that attract an audience. An example for intensity is: "We, we will promote it and you, you will make big, huge, immense, massive, substantial, fat profit out of it ". Another example for the idea of new, charisma and flattery is: "The Casio Keytar is an innovative and unique musical instrument. It is the new piano and the new guitar all in one. Playing just one instrument is old fashion. However playing two instruments at the same time is wicked. We will introduce the Casio Keytar to our audience as the next step into technology, the next step into a world full of possibilities, as the next step into the future". I believe that these techniques were effective because it engaged the audience and also it intensified the idea of the new and amazing Casio Keytar. Furthermore I used flattery so that I could complement the musical instrument and highlight why it is so special and amazing.

An awareness of audience and context influences the approach of this activity because with this knowledge I was able to know how to acquire the audience's attention and how to talk in a way that it would be interesting to them and also appropriate.

Lastly but not least, if I were to prepare this presentation again I would have tried to be more calm while presenting and not speak so fast, and I would have done this bt practising my presentation at home in front of my parents. In addition, I would have added more pathos to the content that we used in the pitch because most of the appeals contained logos and ethos and not so much pathos. In conclusion, this pitch preparation was a really good activity to our summative FOA. I felt like I did really well and now I know on what things that I can improve for next time.