Blog 7

With the two videos/scripts we wanted to create contrast as much as possible with hardly an affinity. So we took the same joke, but had contrasting genres and followed different characters by portraying the mom and son in one video and the toys/train set in the other video. We did want to use tension and release in both videos at identical points. We wanted to use rising tension during the entire film and have the release come at the very ending right before it fades black so the audience can see that there is some sort of connection between the two films. In the Fantasy Joke we wanted to focus on the use of Lines by using the characters to make virtual lines with their bodies. In the beginning of the movie all the characters are using their bodies to make a virtual line to point straight up to the sky. This is to show that there is something in the sky that they believe in and that they are waiting for. Once they believe that their god is no longer with them the character’s bodies point in other directions, except for the main toy who brings faith back to the group. He is standing up straight to show his power over the rest of the group and that he still is faithful that their god will return. There was also some subconscious use of lines in the dark joke video because there are two scenes, the bedroom and the tapestry, where there are actual lines pointing towards the son’s face. We focused on Space a lot in the dark joke movie because we wanted to increase tension because there is so little living space in the house where they live. We wanted to make it look as if the mom was actually trapped in the home and we wanted the audience to feel uncomfortable with the very flat/limited space that was used.