Deborah's Favoritve POV: Girl Buys Condom

My favorite collegehumor point of view video is "Girl Buys Condom". It is one of my favorites because the video makes broad and exaggerated assumptions about women but then portrays it in this funny way. It is also one of my favorites because it is so similar and yet so different from the "Guy Buys Condom"video.

 The intended audience is mostly college students. A difference between this video and the "Guy Buys Condom" video is that this video isn't really gender specific for the audience. The girl in this video is portrayed as clingy (toothbrush), stupid (movie), over-thinking, and easily distracted (make-up) girl. A girl watching this video might laugh and realize that they don't look or think as ridiculously as the girl in this video does. Whereas a guy that might watch this video would laugh because women are usually associated with these thoughts and actions and they might feel this is an accurate representation. The "Guy Buys Condom" is portrayed in a way that makes you feel sympathetic towards him whereas you don't have the sympathy for the girl in this video because she doesn't seem near as embarrassed. The intended purpose is make guys and girl laugh about a common embarrassing situation.

This video makes very general assumptions about the entire situation. It makes the assumption that women care a lot about how they look, by having the girl make a reference to how she looks in her shoes and then the comment about makeup. They video also makes the assumption (which I touched on above) that it is less embarrassing for a girl to buy a condom. The girl in this video does not freak out as much as the guy in the "Guy Buy Condom" video and she really isn't embarrassed until she see one of her old professors. Since the video can be perceived in two different ways and because it is so different the the "Guy Buys Condom" video is why it is one of my favorite POV videos.

Lauren's Favorite POV: Failing a Test

This POV video is one of my favorite’s because we’ve all been in the situation where we didn’t study for a test, and start freaking out in the middle of it because we know we are going to fail.

The intended audience for this POV is mainly college students, but you could argue that other age groups, such as high school students, could relate to it as well. The main two reasons that we know it is more intended for college students are the facts that the student refers to the man as a “professor,” and when he asks for help, the professor says “this isn’t high school, I can’t help you.” Other than those two details, high school students may be able to relate to some aspects of the video, such as getting distracted during tests or being annoyed with that one person who always claims that they must have failed, but always end up with an A.

This video, like most of the POV videos, is exaggerated. No one actually sweats enough to soak through a test, or sticks their fingers down their throat during a test to attempt to puke. However the more exaggerated the video is, the funnier it is to watch, which makes this POV’s one of my favorites.