Chris Paez

Psych 2301-017

Johana Scot

10 December 2009

Project: Observation of Behavior

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            My intent was to study a person’s general, displayed reactions during moments of pressure and anxiety. I chose to observe my classmates behavior while they gave an oral presentation in front of a classroom filled primarily with peers and one authoritarian figure (The classes’ professor) at Austin Community College, Pinnacle campus. I was not able to attain each speaker’s communication apprehension before his or her presentation so I started with a baseline presumption that everybody had a pre-existing anxiety to public speaking due to the fact that most humans wish to conform and therefore not stand out. My logic follows that public speaking is a form of being noticed & standing out because you are forced to be the focus of attention in a group which is the opposite intention of conformity therefore it is more acceptable for me to assume that because of a any given person’s disposition to conform they are likely to be fearful of public speaking, By assuming everybody was fearful of public speaking I could not merely observe every displayed reactions alone, it is important to notice those with low levels of communication apprehension and observe what physical behavior they shared with the people who attain high levels of apprehension so I could eliminate the behaviors they had in common as not being related to fear, pressure, or anxiety. My project is only concerned with the behaviors of the frightful or anxious speakers.

            The most noticeable thing, and the most common trait, of those with fear of public speaking was the lack of eye contact they shared with their audience. I believe the anxiety they feel is most conveyed through eye movement in the form of rapid shifting. The highly apprehensive will move there eye’s quickly from paper, to floor, to random points in the room that are usually above the eye level of a sitting observer.  It is important to mention that they do still make eye contact with people but only sparsely, usually every 4 – 8 shifts will result in contact with somebody but this connection is severed after a period of one second or less and is not repeated with the same audience member more than twice. While the fright was showed when speaking to their peers, comfort was conveyed and sought through making prolonged eye contact with the professor. For multiple occasions with multiple people, eye contact was sustained with the professor for periods of up too ten seconds and occasionally, but only rarely, for longer amounts of time (never exceeding 20 seconds). The obviously most favored dodge shared by the frightful was a pension to continuously stare at the floor or the paper they were reading from, this usually resulted in a monotone presentation. A lack of emphasis was also conveyed through most, they chose to do no more to make them self stand out than was absolutely necessary. No voices were raised to make a point and no arm flailing was used to drawl attention, those who were not holding their paper chose to keep there arms at their sides or rested on the podium. A lack of physical movement was noted in general, most chose to remain static with feet firmly planted in a single location, none chose to move about through the classroom or in front of it.

            In conclusion, I wasn’t surprised by my observations.  I believe all actions shared by the highly apprehensive of communication can be explained by what I would call a strategic but instinctive downplay of their presence. The lack of eye contact with the audience is a way to disconnect and dissociate with the realization that they hold the center of attention. If you don’t connect with anybody then it is as if you have spoken to nobody, which allows for evasion of embarrassment or anxiety from the situation they are in. It’s the same principle as out of sight, out of mind. In this case the audience is what is being put out of sight in order to put the anxiety out of the mind of the speaker. The prolonged eye contact with the professor can be explained by one or both of the following reasons: Either they feel an unmatched comfort with this person or they try to trick themselves into believing they are only there to present to this person and the audience is merely there as unavoidable silent observers.  By believing they are only presenting to the professor it removes some of the anxiety from the situation by deeming the audiences experience as free from judgment because the presenter is not there to speak to them at all, in essence the audience might as well be in another room watching the presentation on a television or monitor. While the speaker clearly knows that either way they are being watched, but they have no care for the observers’ entertainment and therefore have no care for their opinions of it. The lack of physical movement in the presentations is another way for the speaker to remain low-key in a situation that is dominated by their presence. The lack of physical emphasis coupled with the lack of eye contact makes the presentation bland or boring and more likely to be forgotten, quite likely not the event in its entirety but the subject matter and/or the presenter will not be favored in the audiences’ memory if they have made no significant impact. It remind me of Jurassic Park and the Tyrannosaurus Rex, if you don’t move at all then you don’t stand out and you essentially become an inanimate object only recognized only through the projection of words or speech and after all this the human speaker has all but transformed himself or herself into a stereo speaker.

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....Ya, I mentioned Jurassic Park. lol. 

Grade: 95/100

FIRST OFF: THIS IS JUST MY PERSONAL ADVICE FOR PEOPLE NEW TO EDTING. ITS SIMPLY WHAT I HAVE TO SAY & BASICALLY AMOUNTS TO JUST BEING MY OPINION. ITS YOUR CHOICE WHETHER OR NOT TO VALUE IT. DONT TALK TRASH CAUSE IM NOT SAYING THIS IS RIGHT / BEST WAY TO DO THINGS.

 THANK YOU & I HOPE THIS HELPS 

1) dont rush it. you cant rush perfection.
the best advice i can give you is edit when you wanna edit, when feel inpsired.

2) think about it.

3) plan it out in steps: imagine your intro, then picture your tage, and finally your credits.

4) try out everything, find out what each button is & wat it does. its simple, just click it ; ) lol.

5) with Fx, dont be afraid to mess with'em cuz you can for a reason. and be sure to think twice about what you doing ok. its a debate between over-editing & not, whatever you prefer i suppose. but be smart about it, think.

6) transitions, dont go to nutz. keep it simple, overlap clips, dissolves, flashes, overlay, cross effect. and you can use fx kinda like transitions too, like in the beginin of the clip to start it, u know.

7) dont be random

8) synch with your song & pick a good song that in somewhat appropriate & you one can really get into. something you can feel. you know its a good song cuz ur just jammin & at the same time as you liten you can just see the montage playin out in your head.

again, it come back to you being inspired.


check out some of these for some ideas, there some of my favorite montages. & trust me, cuz IM ONE TOUGH CRITIC. i barely like watchin tages as it is. lol

KrayniuM :: One :: 1v1 Montage - (one of the best 1v1 montages i've seen)

Silent Shot & Homestar:: Dualtage - (the sound is off because it was re-uploaded but its still amazing)

ViViSect First Montage - (im in this one, at like 2:55. KILL FRENZY!!! haha)


anyway, my bad this is so long.

well GOODLUCK! im sure you'll do excellent.

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