THE CRASH
Video utilizing joke #4
Group 1
DECEPTION
Video utilizing Joke #4
Group 1
MEIDA 203 JOKE #4 by Anonymous Author (Scroll down for my response)
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished but amazingly neither of them is hurt. After they crawl out of their cars, the woman says,
"Wow, just look at our cars! There's nothing left, but fortunately we are unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should meet and be friends and live together in peace for the rest of our days."
The man replied,
"I agree with you completely. This must be a sign from God!”
The woman continued,
"And look at this, here's another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune."
Then she hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it, drinks half the bottle, and extends it back to the woman. Politely, the woman refuses to accept the bottle. The man asks,
"Aren't you having any?"
The woman replies,
"No. I think I'll just wait for the police...”.
The videos share the same storyline concept with the underlying theme of deception. The storylines are contrasting adaptations of the original joke. They share the same affinity within the video styles and editing techniques used to display both jokes. They also share a similar tension and release method of story telling, by having the jokes follow along a short story that ends with the deceptive punch line of the original joke.
For the first video “The Crash” we tried to follow the story in our own unique way. We have our first establishing shot revealing the space of the back-road that you see the first car traveling down. The car is following the bottom third horizontal line. The movement of the car focuses the attention of your eyes from left to right. For our second establishing shot of the second car we have it following the same lower third while traveling on the same horizontal line. However, this time the car is traveling from right to left in hopes that you would get a sense the cars were about to eventually meet in a tragic crash. The audio track played over the piece gives visual rhythm to the action presented on the screen. In hopes to expresses a sense of rhythmic editing qualities. It works in both the static frames and movement from shot to shot with quos from the song as well as the action.
Our second video “Deception” opens with three different establishing shots. This moves you through three different spaces that place us on the couch with our two characters. For this story I tried to move us within the 180-degree rule places on a vertical line that the couch sits on. The movement is created from matching the action of the characters. For example when Ben grabs Mike’s phone the next frame cuts to Ben finishing the action of handing the phone over to Mike. Also the audio track was voice over we recorded while watching the video before exporting it. We did not want the dialogue to match up perfectly because of one of the video requirements being “No synchronized sound”.
