Blog Assignment 2

For this assignment, again consider what you have been learning about communication skills and styles. Then record an episode of a television show you do not normally watch. Watch the show with the sound turned off.

• What do you think the characters' relationships are based on the ways in which they are communicating?
• What are they feeling and expressing based on the nonverbal behavior you are observing?

Now, watch the show with the sound turned on.

• What assumptions did you make about the characters and plot based on the ways in which you interpreted the communication you observed?
• Would your assumptions have been more correct if you had been watching a show you know well?

The television show that I watched was Good Times when the characters were playing cards and one of them made a facial expression as if he was going to lose and the other player was convinced that he was going to win, but it turned out that the character who made a facial expression as if he was losing; end up winning, and the others were mislead by his sad facial experience. The characters' relationships were based on facial expressions; the characters were feeling that they had a chance of winning and their opponent did not based on his facial expression.

I was convinced that he had a bad hand until I re-watched the show and realize that he was pretending. The characters were feeling very suprised once they realize that they had been mislead by the other character facial expression. I really think that my assumptions would have been correct if I had been watching a show that I knew well.

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