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'.
THanks to: eileen
The unit 2 lecture notes
Leona LEwis for singing this song
The video cast and producers
The video
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