My Humorous Monologue

What's up everyone!! The most important thing I've learned from this project was probably to copy your work before you edit it your HTML because on Thursday I had to make it all over because I deleted it all. I felt very stupid but then I looked at everything else I learned. Like how I learned that when you work with yourself it can be harder since you have no one to lean on except yourself. Especially since you have to work on a lot of sin a very short time and you always leave it for the week before the project is due. Another thing I learned is Patience because when working with yourself you always feel like it isn't gonna be the best and lower your self confidence. In all I learned that when working by yourself you can have a very very very hard time.


Pad is when you add extra rolling time to your film. You should add pad to your film because when you don't your voice or monologue gets cut off. I added pad to my film hopefully because I knew that it was crucial. I also did to my partners Ashley Alfiler and not sure if she did the same for me. If you haven't already you should go and check my work and see if I did. When you are finished watching you should go and comment and tell me if you did. When I think padding your clips I think of adding extra protection to my film.



Okay guys I don't want to admit this but my biggest weakness was the lighting. Lighting was my biggest challenge because I was filming on the inside of my house and the lighting wasn't very good. My biggest strength was probably getting my 5 year old brother (at the time 4) to help me with this project. I practically bribed him into doing this by telling him I would make him caramel popcorn, ice cream, and giving him money. One way I could improve is by leaving more pad not in film but in time. I should have left pad in time so I wasn't rushing and I could have added music, more transitions, and maybe even effects.

Comedy Writing

Hey this year I decided to introduce the project in each post. So in this blog post you are making a 30- 60 second joke video. Humor is an important character trait because most of the time it reveals who you are and how you act. Humor isn't just going on a stage and making people laugh because anyone can do that. Humor is about having empathy towards your audience and actually think about your audience. For example say your at a party with a bunch of Portuguese, you wouldn't be going around saying Portuguese jokes like " What did the Portuguese do at the stop sign? I don't know he's still there" kind of jokes. You would want to say something appropriate.

Okay so I will be giving you 5 tips on how to right a HUMOROUS narrative . One tip I would say would be to just use things in your everyday life that is boring and make them seem really funny. Somethings you could use can be dishes, laundry, siblings, school, and many more things. My second tip would be use sarcasm to make the most boring thing sound hilarious. When writing a story you probably want to make sure that they are appropriate to the audience. SO when going to a party and telling jokes make sure they are appropriate to that age group or ethnic group you will be sharing this joke with. If you are going to be publishing your joke you should try to stay away from ethnic joke so you don't offend anyone. One more tip I had in mind was to just be yourself in writing to speaking. When I say be yourself I mean use the same hand gestures you would when talking to friends or family. My last tip I would give you would be to be original and try not to copy a joke that is already made.

My comedic monologue was on my siblings and how they use to be super mean to me. I used sarcasm to make it sound funny. I basically did everything siblings do to irritate each other. I think it is funny because everyone knows that getting your toys and things your playing with taken away isn't fun but when I said it it sounded super fun. Another reason why I think my monologue is funny is because I used my everyday life to make it funny. I used things that made me annoyed and it turned out funny. When I had to come up with the idea I ton of ideas pop into mind and the very best one being my siblings. The way my siblings treat me because im older isn't always the very nicest like when they demand me to tie their shoe or make them dinner. 

Ashley,Julie, and me

Motivational Poster

Some of the requirements are that we need 2 text layers one will have our Manifesto and the other will have our Personal quotes. 4 pictures are needed to make this complete, three picture were my symbolic pictures and the last picture was a portrait of my face. If I have all of these pictures and requirements then I will get a 4/4 or in other words an A. This Motivational project was due Friday August 28, 2015. Some of the design requirements were that all text layers should have been kerned so that there was no white spaces. I had a triadic color scheme which consisted of a light purple as the dominant color, a neon green as one of the harmonious colors and the last color was a bright orange. Blending options was not exactly an option, I added a bevel and emboss, a stroke, and an outer glow. Although you can't see my outer glow there is one. Color balance, levels, and exposure was somethings I used on my project, Curves was another thing you could have used but I don't always like using curves. TO distribute equal distribution I made it so that all the lines were kind of on the other picture. Since I did all these requirements I got a 4/4 on my design requirements.

Starting from the beginning I went to Photoshop and pressed command and N at the same time to make a project. Once I had my project I put my personal quotes into layer 1 and started Kerning the personal quotes into a box in the right had corner. Then I added a new layer and named it manifesto, I then copied and pasted my manifesto from my last blog post and Kerned that until I had it like I wanted it. I then had my pictures of me, clouds, my bow, and my friend basil the pig put into my document. I then made visual balance between my pictures and added my manifesto and personal quotes. I then added blending options in the colors neon, orange, and purple.



My biggest challenge was probably kerning. Kerning was the biggest challenge because it took the longest. I found out that having to kern is way harder then adding options on your layers or adding your options onto your pictures. I overcame this challenge by having patience with myself and my project. I also over came this challenge with the help of peer editing like having my friends say if it should stay like this or change it. I asked Julie, Ala, and Makaio if it looked good or not and they told me it was god but I wasn't sure. If I needed help with Kerning it right I asked them too, Even when I needed some of the letters to move more up to fix it I asked my 6th grade partner Tyler Tanaka.

Personal Manifesto

#gtsym1

Hey guys my name is Meleana and if you guys didn't know this I love to hunt and hike. Five  interesting facts about me are that I hiked over 30 miles this summer. I love to dive, throw net, and catch fish. I only have one sister and two brothers and I am the oldest of the family. I currently live in Anahola and go to the beach almost all the time. Currently I love photography and think that Silhouettes and sunset photography is the best because it looks cool. Somethings that i'm scared of is night diving because I start to think a shark is gonna bite me. Im also scared of big drops like California Screamin since your going up a hill at 60 miles an hour and drop straight down. My favorite color is purple.

Be happy often. Life is simple, Life is grand. Live life to the fullest. You are beautiful, think that everyday. Listen to the good, Keep out the bad. Explore. Travel. Dream big, even when your small. Discover. Learn. Grow. Eat. Love is patient, even when your not. Say yes to things you enjoy. Say no to things you don't. If you don't love what you do, Quit and do what you love. Don't give up. Stay living. Don't give up on yourself. Bound by fear. Bound by love. Bound by yourself. Wake up early. Go sleep late. Be awesome. Stay awesome. Love, Laugh, Live. Strength. Hunt. Travel to New Zealand. Hike.Practice. Cook often. Work out. Stay healthy. Live long. If somethings not working out, do something different.Share. Listen to music. Risk. DO it. Smile.

#gtsym2

I have just wrote a personal manifesto. My manifesto applies to my readers because everyone must be afraid of something and likes to stay awesome like me. I think that everyone grows, eats, and learns at least everyone. I'm pretty sure that you must love at least someone in your family and if you don't have family I'm sure you have a really good friend. I know that I'm lucky enough to have good friends and family and I want to thank my mom for helping me a lot in work.

#gtsym3

Lyrical Livelihood

My favorite song is Sugar by Maroon 5. The songs lyrics make me feel very powerful and feel like I have someone that care for me. I like most of the chorus for that song like, Sugar yes please won't you come and bring it down on me. Sugars official music video  makes me laugh because they are crashing real weddings in L.A and the people are like what the heck but then the curtains go down and everyone just starts screaming. I think that this song is very catchy and that a lot of people listen to it. A group in our class is singing this song and I would like to see how they act it out.

My team this project was Makaio, Ala, and Me.The song  our team picked was Everybody got someone but me by Hunter Hayes. We picked this song because Makaio was like hey guys do you want to do the song by hunter Hayes featuring Jason Mraz. We didn't have any other song we agree to also. This song is mainly a love song and how they are at the park singing and everyone around them has someone to love but they don't. Jason Mraz is so desperate that he tries to engage and have a relationship with someone who is around 70 years old. Soon after this this old lady was soon approached by her husband who gave her the hearing aid she was missing. At the end both singer left the park on separate benches alone with no one.

The Visual story that our music video will show is three kids waking up doing their own thing and then at the end they meet each other. My job in this video will be lip syncing at the field looking at all the kids who have friends and people to play with. Makaio's job in this video is to lip sync and pretend to fall asleep in one of his classes and then wake up and start to lip sync. Ala plays a huge part in this story because he walks down the hall alone and films almost all the scenes and edits them with the help of me and Makaio. At the end we all "coincidentally" go to the park and meet each other. In the end instead of the ending that the music video gave the people we gave them our own twist, so that they would get friends and not be alone.

OUR STORY ANIMATION

P5T4 Asha Moves Away from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


 Our focus statement was Asha Moves Away. In this short video there is both sadness and happiness. This focus statement tells our story because we thought that everyone could relate to it and we wanted to chose a very easy story. Almost all the other teams chose a happy topic with some sadness. In the middle of the story Asha moves away and Lani gets filled with sadness. She gets help from her conscience which was a bird, that we animated in photoshop.

  









The lesson our audience is learning is that if you have a loved one that moves aways than you should let them go. We felt that everyone could relate to this story somehow. Most people say "move on" because they don't want you to feel bad but for the people that have to deal with the situation don't think it is that easy. Sometimes the people could be your mom, dad, grandpa, grandma, or any other family member. In the end we hoped that our audience learned that the only way to let some one go if they leave to let                                                               them and hopefully they will come back.

             


Our worst moments as a team were probably at the beginning. These were the worst parts of our project because only me and Makaio would come in. At the end we would all come in for lunch because we knew it was important. We started to work together more towards the end. Our team could never meet after school because Lani has practice one day, the next day I had practice, then Makaio. In the end we created something very wonderful and we were proud of it.

Animation Outtakes

My teammates were Makaio Gonsalves, Lani Alo, and Asha McGinnis. Some interesting facts about Makaio is that he has 4 brothers and no sisters. He also likes the soccer team FC Barcelona, Makaio also lives in Anahola. Lani lives in Wailua and likes to surf. Asha lives by lani and she likes to surf as well. I guess their like twins because they like to do the same things.

Stop motion animation is where you take multiple pictures and load them into Photoshop and then you get an animation.To create a stop motion animation you take a bunch of pictures that describes what a person is doing, in this you can make it seem like someone is flying, sliding, front flipping, and anything you want.  GIF  is short for the words Graphics Interchange format. You can make really cool GIF with Photoshop, to export these gifs you go like this: File>save for web and devices and you want to chose around 16 to 128. We have been using these on our latest project. When you use Gifs you allow people to see it online.

Our group chose to tell Lani's story on how she once lost a very close friend. You should care because most of the time everyone goes through having someone of great meaning lost. Some of these people could be your grandparent, a best friend, your cousin or anybody close. We chose Lani's story because we didn't have anything else and we thought it would be pretty cool tho do a tragic story. Another reason why you should care is because everybody else chose like a happy topic and we wanted to be unique.