Assingment 2: Blog Assignment

This assignment was very interesting. What I thought when I was watching this Just Shoot Me Episode, A Divorce to remember about the characters was different. The opening of the show Dennis is lying in bed, and he wakes up, and he found out that he was dreaming. In watching this episode without the volume in the opening the male and female characters scene was in the bedroom, I thought the female character and the male character were boyfriend and girlfriend. The next scene switched over to the office where you could tell these people were colleagues and coworkers. There is conversation, and the characters would made eye contact when talking to one another. Hand gesturing was another clue where the characters seem to get along.

The female characters would comfort each other through hugs. In another scene these two coworkers were in the office and by their body language I thought they were man and wife, but when watching with the volume turn on this couple had gotten married by accident in a mass wedding. In the first scene where the guy was dreaming it turned out they were the married couple and not boyfriend and girlfriend. The guy who I thought was married had a one night stand, and it turned out that he had a real date, There were humor between the characters with the volume off, and you could tell that they cared for one another.

If I was watching a show that I knew well then my assumptions would have been more correct. The character roles would have been known to me. The plot would have been revealed by watching the body movement of the characters, facial expression,, and personal space between the characters, tone, and language. I have learned that what you thank you know in communications is not what you know until you have open communication by watching people body language, movement, facial expression, hand gestures, and actually hearing the speech of the communication, and the tone in which the communication is spoken in.