Body Language and Facial Expressions.

My assignment this week is to watch an episode of a television show I do not normally watch. I am expected to watch the show with the sound turned off, and later on watch the show with the sound turned on.

The television show I watched is called suburgatory season 1 episode 1, though it was difficult to understand what was going on with the sound turned off, I had to make assumptions of what I think was happening through body gestures and facial expressions.

While watching I decided to choose five parts that I had interest in, the first one was the school locker part where almost all the girls had band aid on their noses, the second was the part where a bicycle was shown to a girl in the show, the third part was the swimming pool area where the woman walked right into the pool and the   forth was the continuous appearance of the Red Bull drink and the fifth was the shopping part.

After watching the show with the sound turned off, I eventually watched it with the sound turned on. Apparently through the body gestures and facial expressions most of my assumptions where correct, the school locker part even though my assumption was not correct but I was close to it because I thought they must have gone for a beauty treatment but it was a nose job. I was correct about the assumption I made about the girl not giving her approval on the bicycle and I was right. The same thing goes with the swimming pool part where George one of the characters was trying to beckon the woman heading straight into the pool with his hand gesture. The continuous appearance of the Red Bull drink shows that it was an acceptable drink and I was right about that. The shopping part also gave a facial expression of Tessa not giving approval for the cloth she tried on but Dalia approved of hers through her body gestures.

My “aha” moments came after I watched the show with the sounds turned on and most of my assumptions were true, and I realized that in communication our facial expressions and body gestures can tell a lot of what we think even though most of the time as humans we are able to decode our facial expressions just to hide our feelings or to be deceitful.