Verb video brainstorm
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It might help to have definitions here to clarify which meaning is desired ...
Also, for many of these, there is a context and a critical moment. Perhaps we should consider using an arrow or something to denote the desire concept? I.e. for "keep," there is an offered gift and a continued possession; we want to emphasize the latter over the first.
Verb | Jordan's Great Idea | Xiaojuan's Brilliant Idea | Everybody Else's Mediocre Ideas | Perry and Friends' |
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Know | Someone asked a question, then pointing to head | A student knowing the answer raising his hand | For all verbs: Do we know anyone that does pantomime? Mimes are supposed to be perfect at acting out the meaning of a word succinctly. | Person with academic hat (mortarboard) pointing at head with an expression of acknowledgement, maybe even a lightbulb superimposed over his (her) head. |
Get | (which get is this?) Taking apple from basket | Bad guy's order to deputies when hero breaks free and runs for life | Basically "take", reaching out and acquiring a target object of some type. Maybe even to "steal" from someone else. | |
Think | Someone touching his chin/crouched against a wall/biting a pen/with fingers on his forehead | Hand under chin, rook under attack Someone tapping his chin or forehead with one finger, with a look of intense concentration |
Ow, this is hard, maybe the same as know, another merger? | |
Go | walking away from camera | Going out of a room | Someone walking away from the camera, going out of a room, waving bye-bye. | video of someone leaving, probably waving bye-bye |
See | covering eyes with hand, then showing recognition | Pointing to something with eyes wide opened | Pointing to eyes and then to an object | someone looking at something, maybe putting on glasses while/before doing so. Binoculars? probably not... |
Come | person responding to beckoning hand gesture | Coming into a room; coming up to a friend waving his hands | approaching the camera from far away and then stopping in fron of it | opposite of go, someone coming into the room and waving/mouthing? hello (ooo, another question, can non-verbal mouth gestures such as "bye bye" and "hi" be used?) Likely not, since then lip-reading skills might be required. And we eventually want to use these with aphasics |
Want | person A begging person B for some object | Trying to reach something across the table; pointing at a gift behind the shopping window; | looking at a display (shopping window) and wanting something out of it (cookies, clothes, new computer, etc.) | basic longing, hands on heart, maybe even for a cookie or some object of obvious desire |
Say | Introducing something; talking | baby babble Someone talking constantly while a speech bubble pops up near her head? |
move head while moving hand in puppet mode showing ventriloquist talking. | |
Put | Putting something on the table; putting on a coat | lay something down on the table | ||
Look | Same as "see" without recognition | Looking out of the window; looking throught microscope/magnifying glasses/binoculars | ||
Like | Pointing to two similar thinks; someone showing he is fond of something | Looking at a piece of cake and rubbing your stomach (that could be want too) A kid hugging a stuffed toy. |
facial mostly | |
Take | a and b are sitting together. Three boxes in front of a, b takes one box | Taking pictures; taking off clothes; taking something out of a bag | Take an apple from a fruit basket | clear taking gesture |
Make | b makes orange juice | Making faces; making a snowman/sand castle; making a cake/dish; doing make-up | clay or playdough, make a dog, fast motion | |
Give | b hands a wrapped gift | Handing someone something; giving a present | outward handing something | |
Thank | a helps b up, b hugs a | Hugging someone/grasping someone's hands for a gift; making a bow to the audience after the show | Giving a thank you card to someone - the camera zooms on the thank you. (words, though?) | hindu "bow to your inner spirit" gesture |
Need | a tries to open door, goes for key, but it's being held by b | Reaching out hands | two handed desparate outward "gimme" gestures | |
Remember | 3-card monty game: a shows queen, flips card face down, waves another queen, b points to correct card | Blank stare in exam hall loses some of its blankness | classic "aha" finger up in air with appropriate face | |
Find | 3-card monty pays off | Bending down and picking up a pen under the chair; searching the draw; getting under the table and coming out with something in hand | rummaging through a purse or a bag and then finding keys | discover something hidden |
Buy | a gives b money for item, b gives item | Buy some product from a snack vendor | two handed, give money and take an object in return | |
Mind | Lucy telling Linus it is bedtime | |||
Pay | a gives b money | Paying a meal/coffee with cash/by credit card | hand over money | |
Work | clocking in and then starting menial activity | Someone busy reading and writing with tons of papers piled up on his desk | mime sledge hammering, no object | |
Let | Someone stopped and let another person go first | hand palm up arm motion down and out, as you would gesture to say, after you (through a door) | ||
Keep | a gives something to b, b offers it to a, a refuses | Waving the cab-driver's Washingtons away | clutch some object to breast | |
Hear | a speaks, b has hand cupped to ear, nods | Someone with headphones listening to music; whispering in the ear; Someone with his ear against the door/wall | hand to ear, head turned toward "sound" | |
Eat | Putting a hotdog into the mouth; sitting at the table with knife and fork in hands; holding a salad plate | eat | ||
Use | a tries to open jar, can't, picks up towel, opens jar | Absent-minded dining philosopher admonished with chopsticks | applying sunscreen? | |
Try | Jumping over and over again to reach something high; trying to lift a heavy box; trying on some shoes; have a taste of some food | trying to open a jar (from Jordan's idea); rock climber gives a long look | <<<this one hard>>> (goofy synonym idea, a judges gavel coming down? | |
Ask | a asks b for directions, b points way | Student raising his hand and asks a question; asking about a product in a store/the menu in a restaurant | some kind of arm gesture(s) with an "asking" face | |
Leave | Waving goodbye and leaving the room; watching a car driving away | leave through an exit door | ||
Play | Playing chess/swingset/piano/baseball | some kind of ball manipulation with happy face | ||
Bet | a and b in front of trash can. b gives a money, b throws paper in, a gives double money back | Playing poker | Roulette wheel | laying down poker chips |
Start | Runners in the starting blocks; starting a timer | put car key in slot and turn ignition on | starter pistol? | |
Sit | Sitting in a chair/on the ground | sit | ||
Feel | one hand running over sandpaper, the other over felt | Touching the surface of something; quickly dipping a finger into hot water; feeling cold and then holding arms trembling; putting hands on the chest, feeling moved | rub hand and squeeze on sleeve texture, | |
Shut | Closing the door/window; shut the mouth/eyes | door | ||
Stop | b walks from stage left, halts mid stage | Making a stop gesture; stop the traffic; showing a stop sign; stop a rolling ball | pressing the stop button on a tape recorder/video recorder, etc. | hands out directly at camera |
Hope | Someone praying/making a wish with eyes closed; keeping finger crossed; with arms outstretched | boy watches rain, swinging baseball bat | prayer-like gestures, as in "hope and pray" | |
Love | A heart-shaped box of candy; man giving woman a flower; couple holding hands/hugging | hugging a teddy-bear or some other cute toy; hand(s) on your heart and in-love type of look on your face | possibly take enjoy meaning, or an expressive kiss with arms about yourself | |
Wait | (which meaning is desired?) looking at watch twiddling thumbs, or walking, halting, looking at watch, and then continuing walking | People waiting in a line; someone walking back and forth waiting for elevator/redlight/bus; looking at watch/playing with fingers from time to time | leaning arms folded possibly tap toe to show impatience | |
Help | a walks b by supporting elbow | Giving a hand to pull someone up from the ground; Reaching something on top of a shelf for a short person; Helping to unfasten a knot on the back; Helping to lift a heavy box | would be better with two actors, but we should keep to one | |
Bring | a points to object, a takes it over | Bring some dishes onto the table | carrying something, moving | |
Stay | person b sitting, person A gesturing to move, person B points to present location | Holding a leaving man's arm to make him stay | stay hand downward as if to dog | |
Pick | picking a flower | Someone bending down and picking something up; picking a pen/an apple out of several | looking at different colour card and picking one (this could be choose too) | point to select, or pick up one of multiple objects possibly point, then pick up |
Worry | pacing, wringing hands | Someone with hands on face/head in hands; standing up and sitting down from time to time; pulling hair | hand wringing, other with face | |
Wonder | Someone standing and thinking; holding his glasses and touching his chin | looking at an odd object and shrugging | two fingers on face with quizzical look | |
Call | Making a phone call; yelling | shout through hands, telephone call, gesture for someone to come | ||
Write | Writing with a pen | pen in hand, writing on paper | ||
Turn | walking away from camera, turning right | A hand turning dial; Someone turning around/turning his head; spinning something | turning either body or an object (maybe in a car) | |
Read | Someone reading a book/newspaper | somebody reading, thumbing over pages |