My Humorous Monolouge

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I have learned many things from this project. First I learned how to work a Lumix camera: how to record or how to enhance the lighting. The second thing I learned was how to create a funny joke: how to create a punchline or material for the joke. The third thing I learned was how to import media into an imovie event. The fourth thing I learned was how to increase or decrease the size of the timeline in imovie. Finally I learned how to create a gif in photoshop.

Padding is extra footage at the begining and end of your video to make sure that nothing is cut off of your video. Padding also makes your videos flow together smoother. Padding your clips is crucial because if you don't pad your clips something like audio or action could be cut of. This is important because you may have to go back and redo the clip if there is no padding connected. Padding clips is a crucial thing to include in a video.

My biggest weakness was time to film the b-roll. This was a big weakness because without time you can't get anything done. I didn't have time because I am busy everyday of the week with soccer and other family things. Another weakness was the people in my video had almost no time. My strengths were experience with imovie editing. I have experience because in my school last year they taught us all about imovie. Ways for me to improve would be to plan a time to film the b-roll clips or to plan a time to film with others in the video.

Comedy Writing

A sense of humor is an important character trait. If you have a sense of humor you make people laugh and laughing is one of the things you need to do to have a great life. Also people with a sense of humor can cheer other people up if they are feeling down. That is important because making people happy is awesome! Finally it is important because if you have happy laughing people next to you, you will probably be happy as well!

There are many tips in writing a humorous narrative. One tip that I think is important in writing comedy is to make your writing relatable. If its not relatable people won't get it and they wont think it is as funny as you might. Another tip is to make sure its not to complicated for people to understand. Pretend that you are trying to get a kindergartener to understand it. Third tip is to use expression when talking. Fourth tip is to make sure your writing isn't offensive or inappropriate for anyone. Your final tip is to make sure your writing is actually funny! Test it out on a friend! Read it to them and ask for there honest opinion and suggestions.

My comedic monologue is basically about my mom telling me to clean my room. In the first and second line when it says "I hate it when my mom tells me to clean my room or make my bed because people are coming over for dinner. It’s like oh I didn't realize we would be eating off the floor in my room." it is funny because we won't be eating off the floor and because my room doesn't need to look nice if people are coming over because we wouldn't be in my room. In the last two lines when it says "Why can’t I get paid to clean my own room? I clean my room sometimesActually I never clean my room and I never will so never mind." it is funny because I state that I clean my room sometimes then I admit that I actually never clean my room and that I never will.

Motivational Poster

There are two types of requirements for your Motivational Poster, Layer Requirements and Design Requirements. In the Layer Requirements you have to have two text layers including one of your manifesto and the other of your personal quotes. In Layer Requirements you also have four image layers including three symbolic images that represent who you are and one portrait of your face. In Design Requirements you have to use kerning on both of your text layers all the way across the page so that there is no blank spaces or holes. You also have to use the triadic color scheme and visual balance to make the text appealing. Finally you have to use blending options on your text layers and adjustment layers on your four images.

First I copy and pasted my Personal Quotes and Manifesto into a text box. Then I went to finder and imported my three #GTSYMS and my portrait. Next I aligned my pictures to fit the screen in a creative way. Fourth I started to kern my text such as adjusting the spacing between letters and words. Next I started to use stoke to change the colors of the text. Then I used drop shadow and inner shadow to create a shadow of the text. Then I started to apply adjustment layers and blending options.

My biggest challenge in this project was to kern the text so that there is no open space. It was hard because sometimes if I made a word bigger to fit to the other side of the page it would put half of the word on the other line. It was also hard because I had two text layers and I had to find out how to make them fit together without overlapping them. I could improve by fitting the words to the edge of the page. I could also improve by making the two text layers fit against each other perfectly without overlapping.