COMM 150 Week 4 Weekly Matinee 4

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Weekly Matinee 4

To assess your ability to describe nonverbal communication patterns and their importance in communication.

1.    Watch the film clip from Before Sunrise found in Reading & Preparation.

Film Summary: Jesse and Celine meet on a train ride from Budapest to Paris. They take an immediate liking to each other and decide, on a whim, to spend a day/night together in Vienna before Jesse boards a plane home to the United States (Celine is French and is returning to Paris). During their evening in Vienna, they stop in a record store. Celine is interested in an album and Jesse suggests they go into the listening booth to see whether she likes it. They enter the cramped booth together and the music plays. They are clearly falling for each other, but they are still early in their relationship. Their nonverbal cat-and-mouse games in the listening booth, which lasts more than a minute, illustrates well the interaction between eye contact, proxemics, and relational stages.

2.    Answer each of these questions:

a.    Describe the effect of proxemics on the eye contact between Jesse and Celine. What rules for eye contact are being followed?

b.    How do you think these two feel about each other? What stage of relationship do you think they are in? What nonverbal cues lead you to your conclusions?

c.    How do you feel watching these two in the booth? Identify three different emotions.

Post your responses to the Discuss tool topic "Matinee 4” and respond to two other postings.

·         Content - relevance, accuracy, and depth: 12 points

·         Effectiveness - writing style, appropriateness to purpose and audience, tone, flow/readability, clarity, organization, progression: 8 points

·         Note that points will be deducted for failing to meet the requirements of error-free mechanics and format criteria.