Demonstrative speech outline/timeline storyboard

Demonstrative speech outline/timeline storyboard 

After you have written your speech and decided what you want to demonstrate, you will need to make a timeline storyboard to outline how the visual and audio elements will be ordered to tell your story—with your foreground audio (live by you), your foreground demonstration, and your background video, to effectively accomplish your presentation. This is almost like a to-do list or shopping list — your demonstration will be more systematic and efficient if you get everything you need, but not too much more. Remember, there is time limit and you’d like to show everything within that time limit, to avoid penalty.

Creating a storyboard makes the planning process far more efficient, even if you end up deviating from your original plan. Before you do this, you may want to meticulously plan the order of your speech, video/photos (if applicable) and your live demo (if applicable) alongside or in between your speech. If your story involves voiceover narration over an external/premade video, you would need to develop your own script, and not simply use the one with the video.

A documentary-style storyboard typically includes information about the time, visuals and audio. Some storyboards use a sketch or still image to show the visuals, but should also include a description to represent all elements. A simple way to organize this information is in different columns. Since, you will most likely be using premade video/PowerPoint and also do live demonstration, you will have multiple columns in your storyboard, with speech/voiceover, demo timeline and video timeline. You will have to practice your speech with the background video/foreground demo multiple times before you can write your storyboard timeline. You will write something like the following:

Timestamp(This is the timeline of your speech)	AudioSpeech/voiceover	VisualsLive demo timeline	VisualsPremade video timeline
0:00-0:15	In this column, you will write your actual speech.If you don’t have anything at a time-interval, keep it blank.	You will write if/what you will be showing ‘live’.If you don’t have anything at a time-interval, keep it blank.	You will write the content of the pre-made video/PowerPoint you will be showing.When you show video, you will post the URL and the timeline of the video. Such as, 1.02-1.21 of the video. When you use PowerPoint, mention the slide number(s).If you don’t have anything at a time-interval, keep it blank.
0:16-0:45
0:46-0:60

You can copy the above table and start building on it. You may change the timeline intervals as per your topic and what makes most sense for your demonstration/presentation.

Student Name:

Assignment Name: Demonstrative Speech Outline

Assignment Submission Date:

Course# Section#

Instructor’s Name:

Title: A statement with/without a verb, maximum 7 words. If your title is longer than 7 words, create a subtitle after a colon (:)

Specific Purpose: one sentence, with or without verb.

Central Idea: One complete sentence that includes all the three points in main body.

Introduction

Attention Getter: a rhetoric sentence, a startling statistics, a life event, an individual story, etc. 1-2 sentences.

Credibility/interest Statement: Why your audience should think you are competent to talk about the topic. OR why you are interested to present about this topic. 1-2 sentences.

Central Idea: One complete sentence that includes all the three points in main body.

Relevance for audience: why should your audience listen to you? Why do you think it is relevant to everyone in the room? 1-2 sentences.

Preview of main points:

1. Scheme of the presentation. How you will present the demo- live, PowerPoint, audio visual or a combination of all. 1-2 sentences.

2. The ingredients/steps of what you are going to demonstrate. At least three full sentences, each with one step you will elaborate in the main body of the speech.

Transition to main body of the speech.

Main Body

Introduction to the main body: all the ingredients needed for the demonstration (if appropriate). 1-2 sentences.

Transition to step 1

Main point/Step 1: explanation of the main point. 3-4 sentences.

Evidence: a relevant statistic, statement from a journal article, newspaper, blogpost etc.

Visual Evidence: a relevant visual aid- combination of live demo and PowerPoint.

Transition to Main point/Step 2.

Main point/Step 2: explanation of the main point. 3-4 sentences.

Evidence: a relevant statistic, statement from a journal article, newspaper, blogpost etc.

Visual Evidence: a relevant visual aid- combination of live demo and PowerPoint.

Transition to Main point/Step 3.

Main point/Step 3: explanation of the main point. 3-4 sentences.

Evidence: a relevant statistic, statement from a journal article, newspaper, blogpost etc.

Visual Evidence: a relevant visual aid- combination of live demo and PowerPoint.

Transition to Main point/Step 3.

Transition to conclusion.

Conclusion

Restatement of central idea of the demonstration.

Clear explanation of different ways the demo can be done and what benefits they would have (money saved, given as gift, etc).

Review of main points/steps: 1-2 sentences.

Closing statement: a rhetorical question and answer provided by you. A statement stating that you ‘hope’ your audience has learnt about ‘your topic’.