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Analytic Skill Builder
Develop your analytical skills by completing this video activity. This exercise will help you link theory with practice, as you observe communication in action and examine various elements of the communication process.
Film Scene Analysis: Patch Adams
Date: 1998
Running Time: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Director: Tom Shadyac
Distributor: Universal Studios
Based on a true story.
Sample Scene: Talking to the Meat Packers
This scene is an early sequence in the film and occurs when Patch gives a speech at a meat-packer’s convention.
When you are ready, click “Talking to the Meat Packers” (2:18) to watch this clip. The video will open in its own window.
Analytic Skill Builder Assignment
Details for completing Analytic Skill Builder assignments are available in the D2L course shell.
Please see the “Analytic Skill Builder Assignment” section under Course Materials.
Questions:
Apply and discuss each element of the Sender – Receiver communication process model ( Figure 9.1, Communication Process page of this M9 module) to Patch’s speech on stage at the podium. Utilize additional information provided about this model on page 392 – Basics of Organizational Communication of our textbook, and the article: Communication Theory.
Provide behavioural evidence from the scene to support each response.
Behavioural evidence: verbal behaviour, non-verbal behaviour, situational factors, individual differences (e.g., personality, perceptions, values etc.).
Epilogue: This movie is based on a real person. While the movie (which is part fact, part fiction) ends with Patch a few years out of medical school, the real Patch went on to continue his mission. Find out what the real Patch Adams has been up to.
https://www.treehugger.com/real-patch-adams-4858763
