Comedy Writing

Hello everyone! Well we are in or second half of 1st quarter and this new project has to do with comedy! We are creating our own comedy monologue and also filming b-roll so we have visuals too. Sense of humor is an important character trait because I believe that when you have humor it makes you a more likable person. Also humor is healthy for us because laughing is good for your emotional health keeping you happy. One other thing is also when you are humorous it will make your social life better making it easier for others to approach you and everyone will probably like you better because it is a really good trait to have. We need humor as a character trait because without it, we wouldn't be the kind of person we are today because without humor we wouldn't smile as much or basically have heart.

When I first started this project I couldn't come up with anything funny and I spent the first few days just staring at my computer because I didn't know what to write about. But then we started watching a lot of helpful tips on how to write a comedic monologue and it helped a lot when they talked about writing about something that insults yourself!  I knew about a lot of things I could write about that  had to do with me or something funny or insulting about myself. So thats one tip: Wrote something funny that happened to you. Other tips are that it is even more important how to present your monologue with the right town in your voice and the right expression in your voice. Also it's good to have it perfectly memorized because if you tumble or mess up a line it kind of ruins the monologue and it gets harder to understand. Last, two other tips for writing a humorous monologue is to keep it to a length and wording it write so that you can memorize it and also making sure it makes sense. Those are some helpful tips that I wanted to share on how to write a humorous monologue/narrative.

My comedic monologue is about my toes and how people make fun of me and Talia's unusual feet. I find it funny because this is something that will come up about everyday and it is something that I have a lot of ideas and knowledge of what I can do to do this project. Also I don't think anyone else will be writing about their feet or are put in the same situation as I am when I'm doing this project so I'm glad I have something that is unique to me to work with. The video will be featuring Talia Washington, Tim Blum, Spencer Gregory, Duke Bush, Kaimani Dryer, and myself. That's it, thanks for reading and check out this rally cool 5 shot laughing photo booth gif that I made with Alani and Asha!

Finished Music Video

Hey everyone! I just realized I never published my finished music video from last school year so I thought I'd share it with you now! Well here it is...



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Hope you like it!

Motivational Poster

Hey everyone! So this week we will be finishing our motivational poster and I will like to talk about this project so you know what this project is and how we did it. Some of the layer requirements that we had for this project is to have 4 total mages, 3 of them being symbolic images to show what represents us and one portrait picture of our face. We also have to have 2 text layers, on of them with our personal quotes, and the other layer with our manifesto (you can read my manifesto in my last post "Personal Manifesto".) For our design expectations, our text has to be kerned to fit the whole page with no blanks or empty holes. Kerning means to adjust the spacing & sizing of characters, words, and lines to have a more pleasing result. Another deign expectation we had was to have a triadic color scheme , 1 dominant and 2 harmonious accent colors, we also have to have blending options for text layers (drop shadow, stroke, outer glow, and bevel and emboss.) One other requirement is that we had to have adjustment layers for images, like levels, curves, exposure, and, color balance

Now I will explain the steps that we had to take to complete this project. First of all we had too come of with six personal quotes that we live by or that is special to us, then come up with our Manifesto. After, I put into photoshop and kerned it (Adjusting the spacing & sizing of characters, words, and lines to have a more pleasing result) till it would take up all the space and fill up the page so there wasn't any blank empty holes or spaces. I then had to take pictures of three things that are symbolic and that symbolize me, and a portrait picture. I loaded them into photoshop and sized it differently so you couldn't see any empty spots or any unusual overlapping. I then had to come up with a triadic color scheme (3 harmonious colors balanced out on the color wheel) for my text to match my photos. First of all though, I had to edit my text using drop shadow, stroke, outer glow, and bevel and emboss so it would pop out and not disappear into the photos. Then for my photos, I edited them using color balance, curves, and exposure so it flow together and look like it all belonged with my triadic color scheme and text.

During this Motivational Poster project I would say my biggest challenge was fitting my quotes and manifesto ext to fill up all the space and kerning it perfectly so it looked like it all belonged together. This was my biggest challenge because at first I couldn't come up with personal quotes and I didn't know what I wanted to say in my manifesto. I later did some up with these things but I didn't have enough to fill up the whole thing so I spent a lot of time kerning and I didn't decorate my text with fonts and stuff as much as I wanted to.  I could definitely improve by using my time more wisely coming up with the things I needed on time instead of waiting. I also think I could've improved by of course sizing my text better so it look like I'm triple spacing my lines. That is it! Check out my photos below...

This my text that I used for my poster. No effects just plain black text.  It includes five personal quotes that I live by and my 2015-2016 Manifesto!

These are my images that I used in my poster. Three of them are symbols that represent me and the fourth image is a self portrait.

And here is my final Motivational poster! Now with a color scheme, effects on the text and photos, and having the text and photos combine together to make one unified poster.