I chose a television show that my daughter enjoys watching
that I don’t usually watch. The name of the show is “Jessie”. Jessie is a young
girl who wants to be a movie star and takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy
family to have an income, just until she can break into show business.
When the sound was turned off on the show I thought that
Jessie was angry and resentful and did not like her job, therefore she had a
poor relationship with the children, the butler and the family. Jessie made faces
that indicated that she was angry and talked with her hands a lot. I began to
question why I would even let my daughter watch this show. All of the character
relationships seemed strained and communication was sarcastic at best.
So, I turned on the sound and wow! The nonverbal
communication did not match the verbal communication much at all. Although,
there was a lot of sarcasm and innuendos throughout the show; the
relationships were much more caring than I first believed. Jessie seemed to
care for all of the children and helped them through their daily struggles, as
their nanny.
I think that had I been watching a show that I know well I
would have known the character’s personalities better and my assumptions would
have been based on what I know about the characters. With this experiment all I
could base my assumptions on were the interactions I was observing without
sound. This is an interesting experiment and gives you some insight into how
important body language and non-verbal cues are.
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