I was asked to watch a show that I don't normally watch and look at it once without sound and then again with sound. I decided to watch a show called the middle. When the show began it has random pictures of people climbing things. Then a lady walked in a room with a torch. I thought that it meant she had climbed like the people in the pictures. She was talking to man whose faced looked confused as the woman talked to him. A girl came in the room and talked to the woman and the man. She seemed very excited, because she had a large smile on her face and started jumping up and down. The show then showed which seemed like flashbacks of the girl at school. The girl then went into the the school attendance office (there was a sign on the door) she talked to the lady behind the counter. As she talked you noticed that she was getting upset. Her smile left her face and she shook her hand up and down. When I turned the sound on I found on that the pictures at the beginning were comparing the great moments to overcoming the hurdle of the last week of school to start summer. The woman bought a torch as a sign of summer. The girl was excited when she came into the room because she was to receive the perfect attendance award from school. The flashback showed how the girl went to school no matter how she was feeling. When the girl went to the schools attendance office she found that the school had her absent on one day so she would not receive the attendance award.
Watching a show with no sound was very interesting. I never noticed how much people move their hands when they talk. A persons face and body movements tell you a lot about how they feel. I found that I was guessing correctly about the feelings of the people in the TV show. A persons body language can really help you understand how they are feeling.
I found that I noticed the body language of people much more than I normally would. It is interesting to see all of those cues that would normally be only subconscious.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that a person's body language can help you understand how they are feeling. Isn't it amazing that even without sound you can pick up on what going on just by their body language alone?
ReplyDeleteOne thing I learned about body language and facial expressions is that it can never fool you no matter how hard a person try. I person can be sitting calm and as soon as they hear something and want to keep it cool just look at their face. I have seen that a many of times in interviews when the employer is intersted in the prospected employee and don't want to show it.. Look at the face. It tells if you get the job or not.
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