My Humorous Monologue

Hello everybody and thank you again for reading this week's blog! Today I will continue talking about my comedic monologue. Right now I will tell you what I learned from this project. Some of the stuff I learned were new and old information. I also forgot some of my old information so if I mention something that I already know then this is why. I learned how to use the cameras properly and import the videos to the computer. I learned that on the cards that go into the camera, they're these little switches to lock or unlock a card. This is something I definitely learned. I also learned how to make a funny joke. I learned how to grade our project. Those were the things I learned in this project.

Something I definitely learned and did not include because I'm going to talk about it right now is padding. If you don't know what padding is, I'll tell you what it is in my own words. Padding is when you start the video and let it play to the minimum of 3 seconds and say action. When you're done with the video wait a minimum of 3 seconds and say cut. That is basically padding. I think padding is crucial because you could start a video and the camera wouldn't be ready to record and then your video will be missing a couple of parts in the beginning of your video. Also at the end because it could cut off some of the parts at the end. And that was what padding is and why it is crucial.

So I found out that my comedic monologue was the best of the whole class! But I'm not going to talk about that. Right now I'll be talking about weaknesses, strengths, and what I could've done to improve. I think the weaknesses I had in this project was trying to get the bingo shots. I had to get bingo shots ASAP. I didn't know when or where to get bingo props. So I just thought as this to be the best possible way to do this. My strengths were probably the joke writing because like I said earlier, I'm growing up watching Seinfeld and I just got great feed back from the series. Probably I could've improve by getting something easier than a bingo game. But I think I chose it because I was trying to think of the boringest (I know that's not a word.) thing in the world. So that was why I chose a bingo game. But now that I think about it, I think I could've use something like channel surfing or something. I don't know. Well that was my post for this week and I'll try to keep you updated during this fall break. So that's all. See you next time and have a great fall break!

My Monologue

Comedy Writing

Hello everybody! I'm Makaio if you don't already know and you probably already know that I'm in a new project about comedy. I don't know if you know this but not only is it my first time doing this project but it is also Mr. Sanderl's first time teaching this project. I think a sense of humor is an important character's trait because everybody loves to have fun. People would like other people that likes having fun. People wouldn't like people who don't like having fun. When people are having fun, they tend to laugh. I learned that the easy way, by laughing everyday. People don't wanna be like robots and don't have a sense of humor. That's why I think a sense of humor is a important character trait.

Here are some tips to make a humorous narrative. These tips might not work because this is my way of making a hilarious narrative. Tip #1: Think of something that you don't like. This works because if you say it with sarcasm it will seem funny to the viewers. Tip #2: Say it with expressions. Like I said with the sarcasm, if you say it in a way that you don't mean it or in a really funny voice, you'll get to the readers funny bone. If would probably also help if you do funny hand gestures. Tip #3: Practice, practice, practice! Practice reading it to make it how you would want to say it. Tip #4: Share. It may not seem funny to you but if you can ask someone to read it and make sure it's funny and makes sense. Tip #5: Confidence. Now that you made your joke now all you have to do is have the confidence to say it to your audience. That was 5 tips (my way) to make a joke.

My comedic monologue is funny because I made nothing into something funny. I chose Bear Grylls because he actually has a pretty interesting life. I think my monologue is funny because it has funny Bear Grylls voices and pretty interesting things. I grew up watching Seinfeld and it is a really funny tv show. Before the show they show a little comedic monologue that he made. So I guess I learned a lot and think it that my monologue is pretty funny. I hope you liked  this weeks post. See you later!

Motivational Poster

C: Summarize biggest challenge & how to improve

Hello everyone and thank you for reading this weeks blog post. If you can already tell, this week's post is called Motivational Poster. The requirements of this project was to at least have our manifesto and our personal quotes in different text layers called Manifesto and Personal Quotes so we don't get mixed up. Then we would need 4 photos. The first three would be the three photos we posted on google+ called #gtsym1, #gtsym2, and #gtsym3. The last one would be of our face. Next we would copy and paste both Manifesto and Quotes in the text layers in photoshop. We would Kern them so they could fit the whole page like the top photo to the left. After, we would need to turn off the layers balance the 4 photos to fit the page. When your done with that, turn on both text layers and double click one of them and make sure that you adjust the text and make sure you turned on and adjust the drop shadow, stroke, outer glow, bevel and emboss. Then do the same thing with your other text layer. Make sure that your stroke is a triadic color with your other text layer. To change the color 
to match with the text, Go to edit and go to adjustment layers and add Color Balance, Levels, Curves, and Exposure. And basically those are all the requirements for the motivational poster.


Then after, we must insert the three #gtsym from google+. Once you've inserted the three pictures from google+, then open your portrait with photoshop and put them together and visually balance them to look like what's to the left. After I wrote my Manifesto and quotes, I copied and pasted into two separate text layers in photoshop. Then turn off the pictures and Kern the quotes and manifesto to fit the page. Next change the drop shadow, stroke, outer glow, bevel and emboss on the text and the stroke a triadic color with the other text. Then I added he adjustment layer to match with the text. And that's what I did to make my motivational poster.

My biggest challenge was the Kerning. When I was trying to change this one sentence, it would always go to a different place. If I could do this again, I would get the pictures ready and do the kerning better.