Blog assignment 7a

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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Blog assignment 6a

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Blog assignment 5a

The reason that I think I am drawn to the original picture is the contrasting lines that make up the tiles.  Thats not necessarily what stands out most to me though, but i do think that they are what draw me in.  The thing that stands out to me the most is the corner of the box that appears closest to the audience.  I think the rule of thirds is used here.  The corner looks like it is right at the first intersection.  The use of lines and shapes help to guide the audiences' eye to the second intersection.  The biggest object in the picture is made up of squares, and the edge created by two of the squares makes a line that points directly to the body.  The body is also shown in the background with the use of limited space.  The contrasting lines that make up the tiles really do a lot to create a depth to the picture as well as the contrasting uses of the black and white colors.  Based on all of these aspects of the picture that the artist added to make his audience look where he wanted them to, my subconsciousness makes me feel that this manlike being in the picture has achieved dominance in where ever he is.  I think that the staff and shadow are what do.  This is why I chose to re frame the picture to be more focused on him.

Blog assignment 6b