For this particular assignment I chose to watch a
show that I’ve never seen before it is called “BLUE BLOODS” my husband
apparently records this show and enjoys watching each episode. He told me that
this is a drama show about the New York Police Department and a majority of the
New York Police officers are siblings and the Chief of Police is literally the
biological father. He told me it is a key component to the story.
Based
on the way the characters in the story were communicating as (I watched the story in silence)
I felt each person in the story were friends. I saw
mutual communication happening in the story. I assumed each character had a
mutual relationship. I only saw towards the end of the episode a male and
female share a hug and kissing each other. I thought maybe a few characters
that were in the story were not in a relationship and were angry with each
other. It seemed as if they were arguing because their mouths were wide open as
they talked. And there eyebrows were down and scrunched up. I saw a few males
quickly walk into a room and storm out. I also saw several characters take a
deep breath after talking with one another.
I made a few
assumptions while watching the episode in silence. I assumed there was a
relationship between this woman and man because this woman kept talking to this
man who was sitting in an office chair and that maybe they had a relationship
and now going through a divorce I felt she might have been an ex-wife because
there was another gentleman in the room with glasses that I assumed to be a
lawyer.
The next assumption was of a man and woman working with
each other as friends but it seemed the man wanted to date this woman (police
officer) because he smiled each time he spoke to her and she smiled talking to
him also. Later in the episode they met each other at a bar
The last assumption was a relationship between a
different man and woman because the man ended up saving her at the end because
the suspect held up a hostage situation in the courtroom and by the look on his
face getting down on his knees looking and pleading to the suspect to let her
go was heartfelt.
Now watching the episode with sound
Each
of my assumptions was stomped as I watched the episode with sound. With the
first assumption of the man sitting in the office chair having a relationship
with the woman standing at the office door and the man with glasses being a
lawyer was almost right. The man with glasses was a lawyer but not a divorce
lawyer he was a representative of discussing information between the NYPD and
the media. The woman at the door was his office assistant just giving her
opinion on the situation.
The second assumption about the man wanting to date
the police woman was correct. I however saw that the relationship will stay
mutual because the man and woman are “partners in the police force” and they
didn’t express any physical affection towards each other.
And the last assumption about the man having feelings
for the woman being held hostage by the suspect was stomped because they were
not husband and wife they were brother and sister. The man pleaded for the
suspect to let her go because they were family. That moment surprised me and I
should have took into consideration what my husband said at the beginning that
the man sitting in the office chair is the chief of police. I thought only his
sons were part of the police department. Not knowing that his daughter was also
a lawyer working in the city.
Overall
I believe my assumptions would have been more correct if I had been watching
and learning about the show well. I learned communication between people is difficult
to read especially when the relationship between each character is not known.
It helps me to believe when working with children and families the importance
of building not only personal relationships with the children and each child
but meaningful relationships in which to understand each child and families
situation a little better. This way early childhood professionals are displaying
concern and flexibility to meet the need of the family.
