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.

Personal Manifesto

Hello everybody! I am now back in school still in G.T. My new G.T. blog post is about manifestos. Before I can get to that, I'll tell you five interesting and unique facts about me. One interesting and unique fact about myself is that I love going to the beach! I could be body boarding or digging a hole at the beach. I love the beach because when I just look at the beach, I just tell myself these words. "I'm so lucky to live here!" Another fact is that I am currently playing soccer and the fun part is that me and my friend Jeran are the most experienced players so we're like the team leaders on the team. A third fact about me is that this year, I'm in the ukulele and choir band. I signed up for ukulele because when I'm playing the ukulele, it's really fun to strum on. My fourth interesting fact is that I'm in a computer class called G.T. but you probably already know that because in G.T. I get to have my own blog! Finally my last unique fact is I got a really competitive family when it comes to sports. I have one last fact. My name is Makaio.

Now that I'm getting into a new G.T. project, where I get to make my own manifesto, here's what my manifesto will say. "Bodyboarding is fun. Goals represent the wave and once you've caught the barrel you have finished a goal. Once you've caught the wave, go for the barrel. If you miss the barrel, go back on your board and try again. Bring the wave your all. Show the wave that you can catch it. Get on your board and kick as hard as you can. Once you've gotten on the wave, turn to the barrel. Try your best to turn to the barrel. If you got through the barrel, you've done your life goal. Once you're done with that wave, go for another wave or in this case goal. Never stop giving up on anything." That was my 2015-16 personal manifesto.

I think my manifesto applies to readers because goals are things that people have a hard time doing. When people try reaching their goals but it becomes to hard for them so they just give up and do it later or never again. So that is I made this manifesto, because people always give up on their goals. It also applies to the readers because people think that doing one thing is hard, but it won't be hard once you've actually tried to do it. People are getting way to lazy just sitting on a couch either on their phone or watching television. So it applies to the readers also to not be lazy. Well, thank you for reading this blog post and see you in the next blog.

Lyrical Livelihood

My favorite song lyrics are "Jungle" from X Ambassador and Jamie N Commons, featuring Jay Z. "Jungle" is my favorite song because the song is like a song to just listen too to just get pumped up before like a game. Basically I listen to this song every Saturday before my soccer game. My favorite lyrics in the song are "There’s records to break, medals to take. Flags to wave. The city is ours" because this sentence means like... what it sounds like. I think this means that legends are made from breaking records and taking medals. That legend plays for their country or state and that he takes all or nothing. Or at least I think that's what it means.

My team is Alaka'i Gonsalves, Meleana Keawe, and me. We chose the song "Everybody's got Somebody but Me" by Hunter Hayes Ft. Jason Mraz. We chose this song because Ala thought that since everybody else is doing like a really new and popular song. So instead, we chose a 2011 song about anti-love. We also thought it would be easy and funny to make and it would be appropriate for school because most songs are about love and other stuff about love. This song we think is exactly the opposite of those songs. We think our final music video will turn out pretty funny when we show it to the class.


Our visual story will show that there are two people in the park trying to look for their friend in the beginning of the school year, but when ever they try to find someone, it just turns out horrible for our three characters. All three of us will be showing us finding the perfect BFF but they never can find a best friend to be friends with. They then find each other and becomes BFF. They meet each other at a park and then they greet each other and they do like a cool hand shake and I don't really know how we end it but I think it's going to be like them just having a good time. I guess that's all we got right now. We start filming on May 7- May 8. That's all we have for right now.

Our Animation Story

If you don't already know that I'm doing a project, I already told you in my "Animation Outtakes" blog post. I also told you that we were doing "Asha Moves Away" and why we are doing it. Our title/focus statement is "Asha Moves Away". The focus statement tells "Lani's story" because Asha is Lani's friend. Asha, in the film, moves away. If it is hard to tell if we are telling Asha's story our Lani's story, I don't blame you. Lani was such good friends with her friend (her real life friend) that they shared a bond.

The audience will learn that when you love something, you must set it free and that you need to make new friends even when your best friend has left. The audience will learn this lesson because our team thought it would be easy for the audience to understand this topic (but not entirely). They are probably going to figure it out the lesson by knowing that Lani and Asha are going to be really good friends. Asha needs to move away and Asha gets on the plane and goes to California. After that when Lani goes home, she gets a message from her conscience (played by me) and the conscience is basically telling one of the lessons. When I said you weren't going to get the lessons entirely, well this is what I mean. I guess we forgot to put in the extra lesson (or at least I think, you need to watch it for yourself).

The best moments were when Lani was trying to fake cry. It was hilarious watching and listening to Lani fake cry. She tried it twice. The first time was hilarious and the next one was pretty successful, but still kinda funny. When we were trying to make the fake tears, the water drops were going everywhere. When my team was watching what we had so far, and we saw Lani's face and heard her cry! The worst moments were when we were trying to focus the camera on the white board and half of all the pictures were blurry. So we had to redo the pictures. When we were trying to retake the pictures, something bad happened! When we were taking the pictures, Mr. Sandrel got a call from the SBAC people. Lani had to go and finish her SBAC test. SHE HAD TO BE IN THE SCENE!!! We just need her finger/hand so we used Meleana's finger/hand. Everything went okay after that.

Animation Outtakes

 

So this part of the year is quarter 4 for school and as usual, we have another project for G.T. I think that this project is going to be somewhat fun because this project is all about animation. Before I can tell you about this project, I need to tell you all about my teammates. My first teammate is Lani Alo. Lani loves to surf. Lani is also really funny... Most of the time. Asha McGinnis is Lani's friend. Asha likes to swim. She is also really happy all the time. Meleana Keawe likes to go to the beach. Mele also has a really good personality that everybody likes. They are all the people on my team for my project.

Stop-Motion is when you take a series of pictures of a subject and every time you take a picture, you have to move the subject. when you are done taking pictures, you put them into imovie and put the pictures in order the way you want it. A .GIF is a repetitive stop-motion that goes over and over and over again. The bouncing ball up there is a .GIF. To make one, you go to Photoshop, put your windows into animation. Then draw what you want to do, then make your subject. Once you make the subject, click on the little button on the bottom that looks like the new layers buttons. Then move your subject and click the button again. Just keep on doing that and when you think your done, your done.

Our team is doing our story called "Asha Moves Away". This story is about a girl named Asha moves to Kauai and becomes BFF with Lani. They become such great friends after they meet. Then Lani gets the news that Asha is moving away. We are telling Lani's story because she had a best friend that moved away. This story is something we must care about because this is a very sad topic. our movie is supposed to teach that "If you love something, you must set it free." and "You have to learn to make new friends, even if the greater one has left. That's why we all decided to do our story on "Asha Moves Away".

Typography Images

Typography is the style of printed matter. Typography makes images an impact on photos by knowing who you really are because whatever the words on there represents you. For example, you are smart, responsible, and athletic. You put all those words on top of your picture and people will assume that you are those words. That's what you need to achieve when you are making your own typography photo. Once you've got your words you can start in Photoshop.

Probably my biggest challenge during this project was catching up to all my work because I'm part of a ukulele and choir program and they have this competition that's right before aping break. The bad part is also a good part in some way, but the competition is also in California. So at the beginning of 4th quarter, I asked my teacher "Can you tell me what to do?" and I asked other people what I was supposed to do next. I don't know if the final draft of me is okay because it's your choice if it looks like me and stuff. In my opinion, I don't like mine.

The first example of typography is of Steve Jobs. I chose Steve because my teacher said that we need to do an easy typography on an innovator. I also chose Steve because he made the future come true and made the iPhone. I would be dead if I didn't have phone! The second example is of my advisory teacher, Ms. Fujimoto, and I used her to make the intermediate typography.