Wednesday, September 16, 2015

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!


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