E. T The Extraterrestrial: Movie Analysis

Communication is a systemic process in which people interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meanings. In other words, communication is a way for humans to exchange information. Communication can take place in many ways, some of which are verbal or nonverbal, as well through symbols. When communication occurs there is always a sender and a receiver, often times there is feedback between both parties and it always occurs through a channel.
For this film analysis paper, I choose a scene from the movie E.T the extraterrestrial. E.T the extraterrestrial is a 1982 science fiction movie. The movie commences with the extraterrestrial E.T and his comrades collecting plant specimens, at this time government agent’s show to the scene
In this scene, the communication takes form of a small group communication were four people are sharing ideas that are verbal and non-verbal. Communication occurs in a transactional model where we have sources and receivers that deliver messages to the parties involved. When one party speaks they usually receive feedback such as when Elliot asks E.T where he was from and E.T provided feedback by pointing. The channels of the communication are vocal and visual. They are vocal when someone in the group speaks and they are visual when one of them makes a gesture or when E.T communicates trough hand signals. In the conversation, there are a few noises the impeded the message from being understood correctly. These noises are physical noises which are made by Gertie interrupting the group, and physiological noises that are created by E.T’s lack of knowledge of the English language. The effects of this interaction were knowledge gain by the children about E.T which was intellectual knowledge. Another effect of the interaction was an affective effect, that was acquire when the children learned about E.T’s abilities, this changed the way they felt about E.T and what they believed he