Alright. After two rounds of movies' evaluation. We will try something new today.
This week topic will be on Non-verbal Cues. After attending the lecture on non-verbal cues, now when i watch a movie or music video, i tend to look out for the non verbal cues in it.
So, what are non verbal cues? It is the communication that occurs when a stimulus other than words creates meaning in the mind of the communicator. ( it was from the lecture notes). In short, when you think you are not talking, that doesn't mean you are not communicating. Your actions will then communicates for you, and tell the reciever the message you are conveying. (so now you know, what it means when one day your girlfriend or boyfriend decided to keep qiuet when you meet up with him. He is telling you:" pay attention to my non verbal cues!" haha..).
NOW, in order to spot the non verbal cues our reciever sent out to us or from the movies or the music video we watched. We need to aquire 'the identifying ' skills. Look OUt FOR THIS, THEY ARE ALL NON VERBAL CUES:
Kinesics- actions like pointing to your wirst to ask for time- emblem.
kinesics-guesture, packing up your stuff to signal to the teacher 'stop lesson now!'- regulator
kinesics-when you are nervous, you rub your hand. shake your leg.-adapter
facial expression-sad, ahppy, crying
Oculesics-eye contact
paralinguistic- tone of the voice.
haptics- how intimate. If they hugs closely together, it tell us they are not strangers.
proxemics- the distance. How far they stand. shows how comfortable they are with one another.
Objectics- their belongings.
physical appearance.
Chronemics-status, time.
Let's try this out:
watch through the video attached. it is bleeding love by Leona Lewis. My favourite song. Try to spot those non verbal cues above. you will realise that you can spot them easily. See if you can spot the facial expression-the sad face, looking restless, tearing. The eye contact with the bathtub, telling the audience what will happen next. The adapter- looking at the watch, showing impatience. The belonging-photos. The haptics-the intimacy part. And finally, the Emblem: Slapping on the face, pushing him away, slamming the door...etc.
If you can spot all the above mentioned and even more.
THEN,
TRY THIS.
NOw, switch off the volume . watch the video again. NOtice that now you are only depending on the non verbal cues( the action).
If YOU CAN GET THE MESSAGE BEHIND THE VIDEO, (WHICH IS SOMETHING LIKE BETRAYAL AND GETTING HURT IN LOVE-TITLE OF THE SONG -BLEEDING LOVE) ,
THEN CONGRATS! YOU HAVE USED THE ABOVE SKILLS. 'THE IDENTIFYING SKILL'.
Basically the whole show is about a bee,Barry B. Benson, who just graduated and had to decide which job position he would like to take up in the bee community. However, he feels that choosing one job and having to work the same job for his entire live sounds to boring to him. In the end, he chose a rather more exciting job which was to go out there(to the human world) to collect nectar for the hive. During his first trip, he was separated from his group and there was when his adventure begin.Soon after, he found out that human are eating their hard work,honey, and decided to sue them.
MY CRITICS:
In my personal opinion, i don't really like the movie. I don't get it when i watch it for the first time. What is the director message to the audience? PLEASE DO NOT EAT HONEY?! HUMAN ARE STEALERS? However, after taking communication as one of my course in UB, finally, i think i understand the message that the director or producer want to convey to us as audience. PERSPECTIVE! PERCEPTION!
1. A bee perception to holding on to our job till you are dead. when Barry says he wanted to try something different. His parents are all very shocked and acceptable of his decision. Especially his dad who is who is a stirrer. His father perpection is based on his live experience and hence, came to a conclusion to not being able to accept his son decision.
2.To man! Bees can't talk. What if one day you met a bee that talks. will you freak out? In the movie, when Vannesa first realise that Barry can talk. She was more of shocked than amazed. This is because, we are taught from young that only human have the ability to communicate and hence, it is a mental framework that we have developed over time(cognitive schemata) that bees can't talk.
3. FINALLY, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE: Our different view points on HONEY. To the humans, it is perfectly alright to take those honey that the bees had put all their effort on away from them and use it themselves. Which is what we are still doing now in real life. However, to the bees, they are losing their most precious things,their hard work , to the humans. And it seems to them that it was a norm. Because, they are used to it. (structural principles).
In conclusion, come to think about it. The director provided us another perspective to consuming honey. If we put ourseleves in the bees' shoes, we will definitely think it is an unfair deal. Like how to director have given us a different perception or perspective. RE-watch the movie and WHAT DO YOU THINK? For me, i don't really care. HAHA.
Please....TEll me what do you think?
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starring: Aston Kutcher and Cameron Diaz ( my favourite actress.)
What happens in vegas stay in Vegas.
Bascially, the whole movie is about how two stranger got married implusively in Vegas and had to live with each other because the court ordered them to . During the whole process of trying to work their marriage out, they tried to convince one another to give in. However, like every other romantic love story, the couple soon developed real feeling for each other after what they had gone through.
My own critics:
I love the movie even though i do agree that it was just another romance show like any others. However,In my opinion, that was just the on the surface. If we take thing slow and take a step back, we will realise that the whole movie is actually talking about how the director view the idea of marriage. The director portray the reality fact that, to many of us, marriage is so skeptical. It is no longer committement and love. Many people get married on impluse. To the director, marriage is similar to communication. We know that it takes two or more people to communicate. Likewise, It take two and more to work out a marriage. Marriage like communication, is a process and is a complicated one. In fact, marriage is itself is a form of communication. In the show, the wife believes in her husband that he is not a good for nothing. The wife believe and trusted him for his ability in making furnitures,although his own father don't. Indirectly, the director is showing his point on believing and trusting in marriage. Similarly, Communication is also the same. We,the reciever need to trust that the message the sender is true and beileve his word, so that we can think like him and hence, will not lead to a communcation breakdown or a miscommunication. (similar to the limitation of psychological perspective).
This is definitely a great show for both married and singles who wants to get married in the future. You will definitely learn that it take more than love to work a marriage out. You still need lots of thing like; trust and looking at each other qualities instead of weakness.
go see it.
rate:3.5/5
Favourite qoute(from the movie):
I would rather do nothing and be happy than do something and not be happy.(that's the way, life should be)
