The television show I chose to watch was The Office. I have watched it before, but only about a handful of times. While watching the show with no sound, I was able to see the way they communicate with one another without knowing what they were saying. Their facial expressions on this show were expressive. There were many characters and they were all smiling, giving good eye contact, and talking back and forth a lot. There was one guy on there that seemed to use his eyebrows to show communication using his eyebrows, going up and down with them. Then there was one of the workers and a young blonde hair boy about the age of 10. They seemed when I was watching it with no sound that they were laughing with one another and getting along good. At the end the worker gave the kid a negative look. This shows that with non verbal communication that the message that they are trying to get a crossed may not be expressed the correct way.
Now watching the show with sound, I had the message they were trying to get a crossed completely wrong. The young boy and the office worker were actually not getting along. The boy said "You know something? Your ugly." This show is a funny show, where a lot of smart comments are said. It is tough telling without sound that they were fighting because the office worker just laughed at the boy. And so did everyone in the office. I feel if I was watching a show that I usually watch, I would have a better idea of the communication that verbally and nonverbal. The way they show body language, use facial expressions, and show eye contact may cause the audience to feel that they know what they are trying to communicate. Its amazing to watch them with sound and then without because you get two different stories and scenarios of what is getting portrayed. This show has clearly shown that communication is not always straight forward.
Brittany,
ReplyDeleteWhen you talk about non-verbal communication and gestures watching “The Office” I had a similar experience. It was difficult for me to distinguish relationships between each character. I’ve only watched “The office” once and I felt the episode was silly because of their actions towards each other and the pranks played on each other. I think “The Office is entertaining because they take the “Seriousness” out of what professionalism in the workplace is all about and find humor in the workplace what are your thoughts on this? Do you think communication in the episode is based on working on building relationships with each other? Or Based upon different characters people display in the workplace for example: someone who is always serious, someone who is always playing pranks and someone in the workplace who is always relaxed or stressed?