Blog 7: Written Reflection on the Video Joke Assignment

            

The "Silent Movie" can be found at http://angsalerno.blogspot.com/2011/05/silent-movie.html 

              The two videos that I am comparing and contrasting would be our video that is based on joke number FIVE and the “Silent Movie” which is based on joke number FOUR. One of the big differences in our two videos is that our video is based for the most part inside while the “Silent Movie” had both inside and outside shots. The first thing that is prevalent in the two videos are LINES. Both had ACTUAL and VIRTUAL lines. One example of actual lines in our video would have to be in the office scene. The desk had lots of lines such as the printer, papers, pens, and staplers all pointing at Kam behind the desk. The “Silent Movie” had actual lines as well such as the road. When the car is driving on the road the way it is shot makes it so you are looking down the road at the car having the road as an actual line. Our video also had virtual lines in it as well. The biggest example of this would have to be at the end of the movie when the wife looks off screen to people you didn’t know were there. The “Silent Movie” didn’t really have any import parts that had virtual lines as an important part of the shot even though they did use virtual line in the movie such as when the guy and girl are looking down the hill at a car you can’t see.

            SPACE is used very different between the two movies. Our movie used lots of FLAT SPACE in the whole movie like in the office while the “Silent Movie” used lots of DEEP SPACE with outside shots. Both movies used TENSION AND RELEASE throughout the whole movie by building the audience up until the punch line, which is when they were released. Both Videos also had a TEXT and SUBTEXT. The interesting part about this is that the “Silent Movie” didn’t have and dialogue just captions to let you know what was going on. The silent movie had a text of telling you about falling for women’s tricks while the subtext would have to be life is never as good as it seems. The text in our movie would have to be don’t talk bad about people because you never know what they could hear. The subtext for our video would have to be expecting the unexpected.