Video Observation

Differences in settings provoke different thoughts and perceptions. The class assignment was to observe a video about a man and his mother. Encouraged to use our senses, we watch it multiple times alternating among two senses: sight, hearing, and the two combined. After completing my first observations in class, I observed the video a second time, thereafter, at my house.In class, I observed a man with his mother as indicated through the dialect. The son was vis iting his parents. The mother asks the boy if he likes fish, and the son replies “No, mom, I don’t like fish.” The mother was very consistent and asked the same question, more specifically, if the guy liked tuna. Responding in the same manner, he told her no once more. She said she prepared the tuna with celery to give it a crunch. He was still uninterested in the dish, so the mother began trying to convince him and persuade him to taste it by using examples. He continued to reject her requests with the same “I don’t like fish” line. He eventually tastes the fish and does not like it as he has said before. The mother says he can wait for dinner anyway, because they were going to the restaurant. He agreed with going to a restaurant, and said he was ready. The mother, once more, was not having this, and started nagging about his clothes. He gives her the same responses objecting whatever she asks. They went to a restaurant and it was packed, so his mom suggested a different one: a seafood place.
After bringing the assignment home and watching the video at my house, I was able to analyze the details behind my observation. The story follows the same however, I noted more observations that I has not considered earlier. The son in the video seems to be around his late twenties or early thirties. Information about his age in combination with the way and pace at which he answers his mother allows the viewer to assume this conversation has taken place before. The way the mother presents herself as is very pushy and annoying. She seems to use her technique often to persuade her son to try something or whatever should be the case. The pictures were always being drawn as the story unfolded. I think the pictures are being drawn as the story is told verbally, because the drawings express the story nonverbally. The video observation helped to break down how we use the senses to uncover a message and analyze it. The observations in class will always be different if that is the first observation constructed. The second time we don’t have to try and figure out what is the overall message or conflict. The analysis of what has been observed is the main point in the second observation. By observing, not only once, we can understand details and perceptions through the use of