Blog Assignment 7

The video joke that I was assigned to was the T-G-I-F joke.  The joke is of someone going up to another saying T-G-I-F (thank god it’s Friday) and the other person says S-H-I-T (Sorry honey it’s Thursday).  Although the two videos we made shared the same joke, there were also differences between the two.

The first movie that we filmed was shot inside of Seigfred Hall elevator.  Our first movie that we created did a great job with explaining tension and release.  This is because of the awkward moment that the guy and girl share in the elevator.  The girl comes in the elevator saying T-G-I-F continuously and the guy becomes confused and then starts saying S-H-I-T.  The tension is the build up of the two of them having this awkward feud.  The release is when the guy says “Sorry honey, It’s Thursday”.  Along with tension and release, we had a lack of space between the two people compare to the 2nd movie that we made.  It was hard to film inside of in elavator because of the limited space an elevator holds.  We had to cram the 2 into the shot and seemed uncomfortable on camera for the actors.  At first, we were frustrated with the space, but then we realized that it added to the humor of the movie because it made the two people more awkward around each other.

The second film that we made was filmed outside of Seigfred Hall where they do the graffiti.  We made this video more creative than the first one.  We decided to do a old western silent film.  To make it old fashioned, we added a sepia effect so the color was old.  We also took out all sounds and added captions like in the old movies. The viewer would not know what they were talking about until the captions came up.  Our film did a great job demonstrating objective and subjective.  The video was subjective because it makes the audience wonder what they said or are doing when they were talking before the captions popped up.  It eventually made it objective after they talk because it shows a caption of what they just said.  The objective and subjective parts of the movie make the movie more interesting to the audience and makes them pay more attention.  This film had a lot more movement in the shots than the previous video that we made.  We had MacKenzie frolic to the guy creating a lot of movement.  They also shook their heads while they were talking to make it look more interesting.  In the end of the video, Nick throws a bottle at the two and walks over to them.

Both of the videos that we made were both good and very different from each other. Even though both were good, I liked the second video more than the first. Our group had a great time filming and creating these videos and were successful in it.  Our video also successfully used the same joke in two dif