Video Jokes!

Joke 1: "Big Blonde Women"
Joke 2: "Blondes and Puppets"


Seeing as both videos had the same plot and characters, they're somewhat similar. However, there are still differences.

The first joke mostly uses a voiceover to tell the story, while the second joke uses dubbed dialogue. The first joke has fewer actors and brings attention to the three main characters (ventriloquist, blonde and puppet). This use of space contrasts the second video, which has the blonde in a crowd of people for a good part of the movie. Both videos make use of the rule of thirds when the blonde and ventriloquist confront each other, however. This use of space focuses the viewer's eyes on the two opposing characters.
The first video uses shape to contrast the two main characters- the blonde woman is large and fat while the ventriloquist is much skinnier and appears smaller. The second video uses the positioning of characters for the same effect when the blonde berates the ventriloquist to make her seem much larger than the ventriloquist. She's standing while he's (I'm?) sitting, she's looming over him while he cowers, and so on. This didactic information makes the audience view the blonde as a more powerful character and the ventriloquist as weaker.
Aside from the visual differences in the videos, the second video does have some differences in execution and story. First of all, there are more than three actors and a puppet, giving a better crowd effect. Eric's script also called for the puppet to actually be alive, which is by far the biggest difference, giving the video an unexpected twist and a rather slapstick ending (which is stupidly hard to see because it's very dark...). The second video does frame the joke much differently, however. The video is presented as someone telling a story to someone else, instead of just being an event. This allows for cuts to the storyteller and his audience for commentary and Greek Chorus-style dialogue.

Overall I think we did pretty well and both videos are well-made...of course, I might be a bit biased since they ARE my own...and they AREN'T THE DAMN TRAIN JOKE.
Seriously, like half the videos were the train joke.