Communication

                                               

The show that I chose to view was 30 Rock. I have never seen this show before so when browsing my Netflix I decided to choose a random episode.

I first watched some scenes with the sound turned off. The opening scene is of a man and woman talking and from their facial expressions it looks like the conversation is either confusing or uncomfortable. They do not make eye contact and the conversation ends quickly. There is then another scene when a man walks up to a woman at a snack counter. He helps her with coffee and when she faces him she looks away from him while talking. I can assume that she may be blind because of her body language and eye contact. The man seems flustered at what she is saying because he spills the hot coffee on his shoes and his face seems surprised. Another scene was taking place where I gathered that the man and woman were in a relationship or on a date. They were sitting close to each other on the couch and he had his arm around her. She then gets up to go to the other room and when the man opens a window the bathroom door opens to her sitting on the toilet. I can tell in the next scene they both feel uncomfortable about the situation because the woman does not make eye contact with him and he seems to be laughing, maybe trying to lighten the mood. He then receives a phone call and they both seem to have grimaces on their faces after the conversation. I would assume the phone call was an uncomfortable one.

I then viewed the same scenes with the sound turned on. In the opening scene it turns out that Liz plans to meet with Drew and makes plans for Valentine's day. He seems uncomfortable with the idea and that she planned it for that day and when he leaves she can't believe that she made plans to meet with him on Valentine days. Then the next scene I saw a woman, Jennifer, who was trying to grab coffee and Kenneth walks up to help her. She then turns around and thanks him and he notices she is blind. He does not say a word and pours the coffee on his shoe retreating quickly. We then find later out that he indeed has a crush on her. The date scene between Liz and Drew does happen and they are indeed on a first date and Liz has to go to the bathroom. The brownies then begin to burn and he opens the window revealing Liz on the toilet. They then have and uncomfortable conversation and she seems very embarrassed while he tries to make her feel better. Drew then receives a phone call from his ex-wife who is dropping off his daughter at the apartment. He then feels bad about the situation but tells Liz to just move on with the date as planned.

Some of my assumptions between the character relationships were correct but the conversations were off and I could not tell what they characters were talking about just by nonverbal communication. For instance it was hard for me to determine that Liz and Drew were on their first date on Valentine's day. I also did not understand fully the situation between Jennifer and Kenneth until I turned the sound on. I was very confused by what the context of the conversation consisted of. From this assignment I realize the full necessity of all communication skills including verbal and nonverbal to gain the full amount of information.