here is the second video, I cannot embed it because it's private
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU2zdmFVxC0&feature=youtu.be
Our assignment was to make two videos using the same joke. We could not use sound recorded from our camera, so that made the assignment much more challenging.
I don’t really know what “binary terms from week one are.” But I have my notes from week one so I will talk about some of the terms we learned. Both scripts we voted on were shot in a bar, so we decided to shoot both in the same place; that would be some affinity right there. And of course the fact that we used the same base joke for both scripts is also similar. But because they were recorded in the same location, we had to get creative to make them look and feel different. In other words, we had to use some contrast. The first thing we decided to do was to film one with an old school silent film look, and then film the second with voiced over sounds.
Taking into account the silent film feel, the rhythm of the videos is much different. Because of the word slides, the rhythm of the silent film would have to be choppier than the other video. The viewer must watch the action unfold, then read what just happened. This made the video seem much slower compared to the other video. We used movement to counteract this effect. The camera frequently jumps to keep the viewers attention. If we were to keep the camera still while having the slides interrupt, the video would seem unnecessarily drawn out and boring. In the color video, we did not have nearly as much camera movement, because that would have been too fast and confusing.
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Those were the binary terms from week 1, Steve.
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