According to the assignment of week 7 about non-verbal language, it is the continued work from week 6 on teaching Thai to foreigners. Last week we learned about the verbal language that our group presented about the local language, Isan dialects. This week we have learned about non-verbal language that firstly we had the problem with understanding it. And we got understanding from searching and reading from sources like internet and comments on blogs.
Last week on Wednesday 25th of November 2015, I and my friends went to meet the teacher for presenting about the theme and form of creating a video through making a short film. Our teacher agreed with us that it will be an interesting media for foreigners and audiences to watch it easily and happily.
Working on learning about the non-verbal language in this week, my group made the short film to present about waiing of Thai greeting and showing of respect. It will show the right waiing in the proper situations on our nice culture. After that I and all members had meeting to share ideas and information for creating this video. Then we got the ideas after joining to think about the place and how to shoot it. Sometimes working in group had the problem with each member’s opinion that was not agree so we listened and accepted other members’ ideas. We learned about working in group to adjust with others.
For shooting the videos in my group, each member had a duty in various assigned role. We had meeting and talking several times about our work through using Facebook and smart phone before shooting it. I dated with my friends at our university where we shot the video. Most of us came on time but someone late. Although we had this problem but we could manage the time and friends. We took our clothes and materials for shooting our videos. Each one practiced speaking with script along the assigned role. It was hard to remember the script but we practiced and tried until we could speak well. Then we started to shoot the videos after everything was ready. Each character could speak and act well so we could shoot the videos finished smoothly and completely with our attention and cooperation. We may had the problem with our friends about mistakes during shooting the videos and another problem was the light of shooting not clear because we took it until evening. Because of we shot it many times in order to get the good short film, some friends were tired, hungry, and bored with repeating but finally we understood. I and all friends attended and tried to make the videos best. We were fun and happy during shooting our videos.
Therefore, I think that working with attention and participation in group of all members make us perfect in our product. This is true because our work finished completely. Thank you all friends for attended working together with unity and helping each other and thank you our teacher for good suggestions to teach us know how to work in group with other people by ourselves. And especially learning through technology is very beneficial for me.