Messages Communicated Through Body Language and Facial Expression

For this assignment, then record an episode of a television show you do not normally watch. Watch the show with the sound turned off.

 

A show that I have never had time to watch is called “Orange is the New Black”. I watched an episode of the show on Netflix and with the sound turned off, I observed a few women arguing with one another, so it seemed. One of the women was rolling her neck at another woman as she talked, one woman had her arms crossed talking with her head to the side to another woman, and it looked as if they were interrupting each other as they talked. From their body language it seems as if they were upset with one another and also enemies. 

After turning the sound on, it was nothing I thought it was. The women were just joking around with one another. They were all friends and having fun in prison. Some of the women did keep eye contact with one another as they were joking around. 

I think my assumptions would have been correct if I was watching a show that I knew well and normally watched.

An insight that I have learned from this experience is that nonverbal communication could be misunderstand. Just because a person is rolling their neck at someone doesn’t mean that they are upset with them. We should not just pay attention to one form of communication; we need to pay attention to both.