FMP - Speaking with Gestures

FMP Week Two - Day 3

The Truth Behind the Voice

Analysing Paralinguistic Features

Own Work - Stills From Interview

After recording the interview with maria, I noticed that she used plenty of hand gestures, facial features as well as exaggerated body movements and other paralinguistic features. I began to flick through the video and took stills of the interesting movements she was making; I made notes of the context of the movement then started analysing deeply at how it supported her statement and the influence the movement made on the viewers to either exaggerate situations or too show the little importance a subject had. The large body movement usually suggests the more relaxed subject where she become confident and overly excited whilst the part where she looks down and keep her body in uniform usually are the more serious and uncomfortable situations. When she look directly at the camera however you can understand a sense of sincerity as her tone of voice lowers. It is quite interesting considering this is also the way she was taught how to speak English in the first place. Hand gestures are used more commonly when trying to communicate with people who do not understand a language well; it is also used to exaggerate situations.