Introduction to Communication FILM ANALYSIS PROJECT

Need to do film analysis. Movie name is baby driver.

OBJECTIVE: Imagine that you and your group are a consulting firm that specializes in the subject of Relational Communication, and hired your firm to observe several relationships between certain individuals. Using what you have learned throughout this course, your firm to analyze behaviors (of chosen characters in the film), as they relate to relational communication. The dialogue or interactions you select and analyze will be from a film of your choice.

PRESENTATION:

Your presentation should include a BRIEF synopsis or plot summary of the film and a description of your chosen characters for analysis.

You must analyze a minimum of 3 relationships from your chosen film, mapping each relationship's relational development via their communication.

Use terminology from the readings, and link these concepts to specific examples of dialogue and the interaction between characters from the film. Include adequate detail to demonstrate your overall comprehension of these relational communication concepts. Each individual must include and discuss at least 2 concepts from the following options:

Perception

• The process of perception - selecting information; schemas; challenges with schemas
• Perceptual barriers - stereotyping; prejudice, ethnocentrism

Self

• self-concept
• self-fulfilling prophecy
• self-disclosure
• self-presentation: perceived self and presenting self

Nonverbal

• The smell of love (Furlow reading)
• Nonverbal communication codes (Hecht et all reading)
• Types of Nonverbal Communication (appearance, kinesics, gestures, occulesics, facial expressions, haptics, paralanguage, proxemics, chronemics, olfactics)
• Purposes of NV Communication (repeating, substituting, complementing, accenting, regulating, contradicting, deceiving)

Interpersonal Communication

• Interpersonal attraction - proximity, similarity
• Content and Relational Messages (affinity, respect, immediacy, control)
• Uncertainty Reduction Theory
• Relational Dialectics Theory - autonomy vs. connection; predictability vs. novelty; privacy vs. openness
• Mark Knapp's Developmental Model of Relational Development - initiating; exploratory; intensification; integrating; bonding; declining due to: uncertainty events/interference/unmet expectations; repair tactics; termination; reconciliation
• Self-disclosure (Social Penetration Model and the Johari Window)
• Conflict triggers - inaccurate perceptions; incompatible goals; unbalanced costs and rewards
• Confirming / Disconfirming Messages (Distancing tactics)
• Gottman's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (criticizing, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling)
• Approaches to Conflict (Nonassertive, Indirect, Passive, Direct Aggression, Assertive)
• Conflict Resolution Outcomes - compromise; win-win; lose-lose; win-lose (separation)

Small Group Communication

• Group Development (forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning)
• Types of Roles (formal / informal) - Functional roles (task, social / maintenance, antigroup)
• Types of leaders (Directive, Participative, Supportive, Achievement oriented)
• Methods to increase group cohesion - Cohesive goals
• Groupthink

Film Analysis Outline -

I. Brief synopsis or plot summary of the film

II. Description of chosen characters for analysis

III. Analysis of the 3 character relationships

A. Analysis of the relationship between ______ and ______.

B. Analysis of the relationship between ______ and ______.

C. Analysis of the relationship between ______ and ______.

Conclusion

Need to do Part 3 and conclusion from the project criteria file.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar