Le Bar & What's Your Number W/ Comparison and Contrast

Alright, so we had to do a joke video based on the same joke. Our group chose this joke:

"A very shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage, he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, 'Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?' She responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, 'NO! I won't sleep with you tonight!' 

Everyone in the bar is now staring at them. 

Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table.

After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology, and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations."

To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, 'What do you mean $200?!'"

So each of us wrote a script based off this joke, and Erin's and my script were chosen to be filmed. In regards to affinity between the two videos, we both used character movement in our videos, mostly because we were not allowed to move the camera around with the person. We had to use this to keep the audience's interest and show reality. We both used the same type of space by using limited space to show the context of the situation and to keep true to the joke. Thirdly, we both also used tension and release by showing him being rejected in an awful way, but then being able to get back at her at the end, ending with a good release of the tension.

As for the contrast we both had different genres. Mine was more slapstick comedy, as for Erin's her's was film noir. We used the same joke as a basis, but we both took spins off of it with mine adding in different jokes added to the jokes, and her's was more on a serious note besides the actual joke. Erin did use more shapes because of the hats and the subtle differences on how she showed the characters.

In the end we made the decision we all liked Erin's video better, due to it stayed truer to the original joke, and was put together well. It was one of the funnest projects and probably the most time I spent on one of the projects with a group that large.