The video joke turned out great in my opinion. There was a lot of work involved in the process, but I will admit that the completion of them was very rewarding. Both videos were shot in the same house with the same to actors/actresses, but they are clearly two completely different ways to portray the same joke. The first film is a silent film that is designed to use music and expression to tell the story. Even though the dialog is shown in text, it was still important for us to make sure the point of the joke got across without it. The second movie was shot as documentary of sorts about a boy and his mom. It did not take as much visually because the driving force and humor all came from the audio which was a voice over narration that my friend did for me.
The focus for the first video was to really establish a rhythm that would flow throughout the entire film. In one of the first shots, we should a sink dripping at the rhythm that we wanted and then the music takes the music carries the rhythm throughout the rest. In the documentary film, the slow Morgan Freeman-like voice that my friend did established a bit of a rhythm. The silent film also dealt with a lot of lines. Our cinematographer made sure that each shot used actual and virtual lines as much as he could.
For the documentary style film, we had the son and the mom where contrasting colors. The son was wearing a dark red shirt and the mom had on light blue. We had hoped that this would make the sun to appear a bit more fiery and the mom to have a calm and soothing aura.
Both films use didactic thinking, the documentary has the narrator telling you about the feelings of each characters, and the silent film has text that even uses exclamation points to tell the audience the mood. But if you were to consider the silent film without all of the text, I think that the expressions on the characters is enough for the audience to actively figure out the story that is being told.
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