Watch the Gayle King interview singer R Kelly. The purpose of watching this video is to practice your observation skills. Pay careful attention to details and jot down your observations. After watching the video at least once, describe 5 observations. Be specific and use the terminology from the chapter. You can use the Feedback Form: Observation in Box 4.5 of Chapter 4 to help gather your thoughts.
Some considerations to make note of: Do they maintain eye contact more while talking or while listening? Does the “interviewee” break eye contact more often while discussing certain subjects than others? Can you observe changes in expression or vocal qualities? Note speech rate and changes in intonation or volume. Give special attention to speech “hitches” or hesitations. Attentive body language. General style and changes in position of hands and arms, trunk, legs?
Open or closed gestures? Tight fist? Playing with hands or objects? Physical tension: relaxed or tight? Body oriented toward or away from the other? Sudden body shifts? Twitching? Distance? Breathing changes? At what points did changes in facial expression occur? Changes in skin color, flushing, swelling or contracting of lips? Appropriate or inappropriate smiling? Head nods? Brow furrowing? Note gestures, shifts of posture, leaning, patterns of breathing, and use of space. Give special attention to facial expressions, and lip movements. Note appropriate and inappropriate smiling, furrowing of the brow, and so on. Note places where movement synchrony occurred. Did you observe examples of movement dyssynchrony?
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