Here's the videos Alex, Paula, John, Cameron and I made for our jokes. The first one was supposed to be film noir and then we did the second video as a silent movie.
The contrast between the line of the two videos is very noticeable in my opinion. I think a lot of it has to do with the lighting in the first video affecting the quality of the video, however I like the lines we established in the shots of our silent video much better. I especially like the overhead shot of Alex while he's playing with his "train" because of the flat space created by him laying against the plain background of the floor focuses the attention of the viewer on the action he's doing.
I also think the silent movie did a better job of actively engaging the viewer. Because we didn't use the literal space of the kitchen and the livingroom and we also had frames with the dialogue on them, I think the viewer had to pay more attention to grasp the concept of the video. I prefer having viewers actively engaged in my work and making them think a little bit for them to get the joke just because I feel that the joke is more funny if the audience is more in the moment.
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