Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Body Language! (Part One)

(I finished reading at 9:17, then finished researching at 9:40)

I have decided to look into body language, the things that people do with their bodies that mean different things and emotions. We were leaning about this in Randy's portrait class. I think that it's so interesting that we do some of these things and give off a very strong emotion to others and sometimes don't even notice it. There is aggressive body language, submissive
body language, romantic body language, bored body language, defensive body language, closed body language, open body language, relaxed body language, evaluating body language, and many more. Your body language is expressed through your head, torso, arms, and legs. People naturally know how to read you, it's kind of an instinct that we are all born with. This website shows many different ways that people show how they feel towards a person and things that we do and sometimes not even know it. For example closed body language, people will have their arms crossed, heir head and eyes down, legs crossed. The site also goes into detail about why people use closed body language, and why they do those specific movements (head down, legs crossed.) I really learned a lot from this site, it's kind of fun to see what gestures each type of body language has and to then realize that I really do some of the sometimes without even noticing.

(began my research at:)
http://changingminds.org/techniques/body/body_language.htm



4 comments:

Becky said...

Super awesome topic. I love this! In the US Weekly magazines I used to read all the time, they would have a body language expert analyze the stars and how they were "speaking" to their sig others through language. Great choice and a fabulous knowledge to have when you approach your portrait work. Awesome!!!

[silly]mermaid said...

Body language is such a big part of communication. I think you'll be able to find a lot of great and interesting facts about it. I'm interesting in hearing more.

[silly]mermaid said...

interested* haha

~Lil Mz. Writer~ said...

i like this topic seeing that thats always the number 1 reason y i get in trouble at home i proubly really need to look at that site LOl