Reflection on the Video Joke Assignment

"Ye Olde Waiting Room"




"The Ole' Switcheroo"

These are our joke videos. We made the first video “Ye Olde Waiting Room” as silence comedy video so we didn’t care the dialogues between characters so much. Instead of that, the setting, lines, character’s movements became important for this video.

Actual lines were easy to realize in this video. For instance, in the picture of beginning scene above, the frame of door, sofa, and pictures are very obvious actual lines. These lines gave audiences a sense of space.

Then the female looks up, her eyes was showing us the virtual lines. She was looking towards to something.  Because we tried to use more establishing shots so this video didn’t include too many camera movements. We used characters’ movements to build up meaning. 

In this scene, the female was pacing around, her movements provided us a rhythm and showed us meaning about she was waiting and worrying about something.

Also, we used the movements of pointer to show the time was passing. 

In our second joke video “The Ole’ Switcher” we use dialogues and characters’ gesture to create the sense of the joke.

Again, actual and virtual lines were also used a lot in this video especially the virtual lines because we change the points of interest a lot in this one. We shifted our camera focus during the conversation between characters. During these close shots of characters’ facial expression, the audiences could see the lines of sight clearly. As different from another video, we provide more elements to show the space in this video.

In this scene, we would know they were in a lobby because the doors, elevator and crowed. Also the background sound helped us create the sense of space. In addition, the characters’ movements and moving direction gave us a kind of visual rhythm.

This is another example of space and rhythm.  The wide shot showed us the character should in a hallway and the male was walking from far to close. We could realize the rhythm through his movements and his steps sound.

Overall, this video joke project gave me interesting and unforgettable experiences.