Person #1 got on an elevator in a building.
When Person #1 entered the elevator, there was Pererson #2 already inside and Person #2 greeted Person #1 by saying, "T-G-I-F" (letters only).
Person #1 smiled at Person #2 and replied, "S-H-I-T" (letters only).
" Person 2 looked at Person #1, puzzled, and said, "T-G-I-F" again.
Person #1 acknowledged Person #1’s remark again by answering, "S-H-I-T."
Person #2 was trying to be friendly, so s/he smiled a big smile and said as nicely as possibly "T-G-I-F" another time.
Person #1 smiled back and once again replied with a quizzical expression, "S-H-I-T."
Person #2 finally decided to explain things, and this time s/he said, "T-G-I-F, Thank Goodness It's Friday, get it?"
The man answered, "Sorry, Honey, It's Thursday."
Below are the two final videos based on this joke. Each are from separate scripts that each attempt to interpret this same joke.
Joke/Video #1:
Joke/Video #2:
MY OPINION:
I believe that the Video #2 worked the best over all.
Both videos played with rhythm and line, but I believe the Joke #2 did this better.
This is interesting, because we intentionally used the elevator shaft in Joke #1, because we thought that it's vertical lines would create good spacial dimensions. It is true that the lines do cue depth of field within the movie, especially when the elevator door opens and we see the girl and the boy at the same time, the back wall's lines working with the frame of the elevator door to really show depth within the frame.
That being said, it is still my opinion that the horizontal lines created by the stone seats that the actors sit on in Joke #2 use line much better, creating a much more active depth of field. This more active depth of field begins from the beginning of the video, when the audience sees Nick further back in the background. Though Nick is ignored throughout the movie until the end, the lines creating this depth of field allow the audience to play with ideas as to how Nick might come into the story.
Joke #1 is much more didactic, in that there is not much room for the audience to guess at meaning, or what is to come in the video. We intentionally guide the audience into the elevator with restricted framing, and from there, through the rest of the remaining minute, or so of the scene, all that is seen is the two actors and their reactions to one another.
Both videos utilize text and subtext as well. This similarity, despite the aforementioned ways in which the two videos contrast, is probably because the two scripts that we wound up using were so similar.
The text itself within the video literally reads "tgif" and "shit". This is especially personified within Video #2, where the text is actually displayed for the audience to see. Despite this blunt use of text, however, the subtext goes much deeper, in that each letter of each original word stands for a word in and of itself. Each of these words has meaning alone, as well as a differing combined meaning when juxtaposed next to one another.
JAC..
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