My Speech Outline

Well, there she blows. For those of you that didn't catch my last blog post, I needed to give an informative speech for my college speech class. It needed to be a sociopolitical topic, so I chose video game violence.

I'm a horrible public speaker, as I have horrid stage fright. I ended up rambling, and not being to get to the conclusion within the 6 minute time limit.

So yeah, there it is. :)
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So this video is what I did over the weekend. I'm really proud of it, and wanted to bring it to as large an audience as possible. It is the product of about 12 hours of hard labour, and previous 'draft' which received some feedback. For more information, please read the Project Info section.

The choice of the song "Your Eyes Open" was partly due to the song being just so good that I wanted to make a 'tribute' video with it on impulse. However, certain symbolism can be (possibly) identified within the lyrics that I thought would also relate to the game, which also influenced my decision to use it. As can be seen below in the lyrics excerpt (See Lyrics), phrases such as a 'lonely road' obviously can indicate the emptiness of once filled streets. Other parts such as "Morning Comes and you don't want to know me..." might be considered from the perspective of the enemies of the Lone Wanderer,
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