This week we worked on a new skill of copysign and reviewed signer's perspective by using graph paper.
Tuesday, Carl introduced us to copysign, which is mimicking the signs, gestures and facial expression of another signer. First, Carl had us copy him, while he signed a story about Lego people, Deb and Mike meeting at college. Next, Carl had us copysign a man interpreting a song (but without sound) That was challenging, because in some areas he went fast & was using unfamiliar signs. It was also a good lesson in signer's perspective because it is easy to follow someone in the opposite direction.
Thursday, we did more copysigning by following a video of Carl. Then we reviewed signer's perspective using graph paper. The signer has to show where certain signs were on the graph paper by giving a visual starting point (usually a corner) and counting over the squares where the next sign was. It was the job of the people writing the signs in the squares to reverse what we were seeing and put the signs in the correct place. If the signer went to their right, it looks like they were going left to the people watching, so we needed to keep that in mind.
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