Observation

Amjad Moubarak

Senior Film class 1

9/15/18

Observation

Three people all assumedly Caucasian, two men and one woman, appear to be friends doing homework, all have laptops out. Strewn about their table are cups, mugs tea cups with saucer, water bottles, cellphones and pens They’re conversations mainly consist of talking about classes, at one point one of the men said to the other that “they can copy their notes” every so often they will diverge into other topics with the sounds of laughter involved here and there but eventually revert back to the topic of homework, either while still talking or in complete silence. The woman sits to the right, brown hair red lipstick, dressed in mostly black save for an orange jacket. She seems to have a tendency to repeatedly bounce or jitter her right leg. The two men sit together on the left, the one who sits away from the wall wears a red shirt, next to his laptop is a yellow lined paper pad with a pen resting on it, he appears to do nothing much save for checking his phone every so often. The man who sits closest to the wall has glasses, wears a dark blue hoodie with white stripes going a across it, he appears to have long hair underneath a cap worn backwards, like the man next to him in the red shirt, he appears to do nothing peculiar just checks his phone every now and then. Out of the three of them it is the one woman in the orange jacket who displays a unique repetitive behavior, in the form of bouncing one of her legs up and down.

From across at the end of a long table, lined with many chairs, sits two people, one a women of assumedly Asiatic decent that sits to the right. Across is the other. A man, assumedly Caucasian, sits the left. The man wears a red shirt and from time to time sips from a drink with a lid and a straw. The woman wears a blue tank top, has dark hair cut very short. Both individuals appear to be very animated in their conversations. Both the man in the red t-shirt and the woman in the blue tank top move their arms and body with such energy that indicates interest and enjoyment in the others company and discussions. Their arm movements indicate both energy and purpose, as from time to time, the woman will gesture her hands methodically as if to instruct or just merely to specify something in detail to the man across from her. The man will in return mover his arms and hands in an almost pointing manner without specifically extending just his index figure. Just a very general or casual pointing, lazily or relaxingly pointing with the entirety of his hand. When he’s not doing that he has his hands under his chin as he devotes his attention to what the woman across from him has to say. The man in the red shirt who sits to the left of the long table and the women wearing the blue tank top who sits to the right across from him on the long table, have been at it with conversations for a quite a while now.