show Home Improvement, starring Tim Allen, with no sound or captions. I found that watching a program with no sound is very frustrating and boring since you have no idea what they're talking about. I tried lip reading the actors and actresses but it's not as easy as Hollywood sometimes makes it out to be. Many people mumble and use elaborate facial expressions when acting, making it very difficult to find any consistency in their mouth's movement. .
When you're unable to hear the dialect you begin to notice more subtle visual aspects of the show. I observed rapid eye movement, finger restlessness and other things that made it appear that the cast members were uneasy at times and that they might be having difficulties remember their script. When you can't completely follow the plot you notice small errors such as lighting changes, moved objects and editing details. I work with postproduction video editing sometimes at work so I notice little things like that. .
I feel that even a deaf person, with experience reading lips, would find it very difficult to follow a conversation on T.V. since camera angles, set lighting, and scenes are constantly changing at a fast pace. The closed-captioned technology has to be a lifesaver for the deaf community "I can't imagine growing up without the entertainment of television as a little child. Having to watch people walk around and move their mouth without knowing what they're saying must be overwhelmingly frustrating to children that could once hear but later became profoundly deaf. This activity allowed me to share the experience that many deaf people see everyday when being around all hearing people.