Lets Talk TV Assignment 2

The TV show that I decided to record and observe was Heartland on The CW this is a movie about ranching, guys with jeans, hats, boots and horses. There were many scenes in the movie that had a lot of nonverbal language that I was able to guess correctly.

In one scene a guy dressed like a cowboy was sitting at a counter in a dinner and he was talking with his waitress he was smiling and he looked happy.  As he was talking the waitress gave him this look and said some words to him with an attitude. You could tell by her body movement, the look on her face and how she walked away from him that she had said something smart or offensive to him.

So when I watched the same scene in the movie with sound I was right. The guy liked the waitress and he was trying to make small talk, but she did not want to hear what he wanted to sat because she thought he was nothing but trouble and she walked away leaving him sitting at the counter. Then another girl walked up to him and he asked her “what did I say” she replied “it is not what you said but how you look”. The guy had a black eye. The waitress concluded from his black eye that he had been in a fight and that he was probably a trouble maker.

 

The second scene was one in a stable and a horse was giving birth to a fowl. There were three people there a young guy and young girl and this man that was much older and acted as a vet. All three of them were on their knees with the horse. The two guys had on elbow length gloves that were covered with blood. The older guy was reaching into the horse, and you could tell by his facial expressions that he was reaching around felling the fowl. Then he said something to the girl and her face turned red, her eyes filled with water, and she dropped her head.

The guy was telling her that the fowl was dead and she was asking him was he sure and why couldn’t they help it. I was able to tell from the facial expression that she had that something was wrong.

There was this one scene where this older guy was fussing at this younger guy. I thought he was giving him pointer on how to rustle a bull to the ground, but he was actually criticizing the guy telling him that he was not doing what he had told him, and that he did not listen to a word that he said, and so own. But after watching the show with word he was actually upset because he had moved past his prime as a bull rustler and wanted to get back to it, but he had lost it and it was time for him to pass it along to someone younger.

There scenes were easy to predict what was going on because of the body language, but not all of the scenes were that easy to figure out. If I would have been watching a TV show that I watch all of the time line Meet the Browns I would have been able to tell you exactly what was happening and what was being said because I have learned the characters and I know their persona.