Learning About Communication Skills

The show that I decided to analyze is Blackish. I comes on ABC. It is a thirty minute series about an Black American family.  

While watching this show without sound it seems to me that they are your normal family. The dad do things to irritate or embarrass the kids. And they mom finds it funny. There are four children and they seem to get along perfectly. Throughout the show they would be in one of the sibling’s room having discussions. The mom and dad seems to have a good relationship with one another. The family seemed very happy. The only time the father seem upset is after he came home from work one day and when his father called him he began to cry on the phone. During the middle of the show it looked like the younger two siblings tried to blackmail their oldest brother.

I did not enjoy watching television without sound, especially since I cannot read lips. My assumptions of this episode where completely wrong. The episode that I watched  was about serious family issues and I misinterpreted it because they were doing a lot of laughing and smiling. My assumptions about the characters being loving and getting along together well. They were a happy and loving family. I believe that my assumptions would have still been the same.

I really enjoyed doing this assignment. It made me think about how I view things. Just to know that I watched thirty minutes of television without sound and thought I knew what was going on is different. It made me think that nonverbal communication can be deceptive. And listening is very important, you can misinterpret things if you do not listen.