As I watched this television show without sound, it is my assumption that this is a family with a mom and dad raising their teen children. The mom and the daughter are online looking at something together. The girl runs upstairs and brings a credit card down to the mom or the older lady. They both smile after she takes the card, types something in and gets up from the computer. When the male teen comes in house, he shows a paper to the male figure, whom I assume is the father. The teen boy talks and the dad listens. The dad frowns and the next day shows up at the boys class and the boy moves close to him with his hands half raised and shaking his head as if to say what are you doing here. Mean while the mom and daughter are at a shop, which looks like a pawn shop and they were trying to buy the girl something.
After watching this show with the sound on, I realized that these two adults were not the parents of these children. The lady was the auntie and I am still not sure who the adult male was, because the teen boy called him by his first name. The shop where the adult woman and teen girl were at was a place to buy fake ID's. The adult male that I assumed was the father did go talk to the teacher about the grade the boy received, but ended up telling the teacher the paper was a paper he wrote in college and it should have a better grade.
I had a story line from what I watched, but it was not the intended story line of the writer, because I could not hear. We understand things from the lens of our experience. The aha moment for me from watching this episode was, what you see is not always what is being communicate. Make sure you understand what is being communicated.
I agree with you totally what we see is not always what is communicated that is why it is so important that we use other forms of communication such as nonverbal cues, effective listening to assist in intrepreting what is being communicated. After watching a video clip in silence what I noticed was that while watching without the sound I was very attentive and did not peer away from the picture, but when watching with the sound I noticed that I relied heavily on the sound to assist in interpretation and avoiding alot of the body language and nonverbal cues being used.
ReplyDeleteGloria,
ReplyDeleteI find your example extremely interesting. I had a different experience with the show I watched and found it rather easy to follow the main story line. However, you are right that we are often tainted by our expectations and if we are not careful, we interpret nonverbal cues as something that they are not. I think your example showed how easily mistaken we can be in our assumptions and what we perceive as being communicated may not be what was intended to be communicated.