Comedy Writing

Sense of humor is an important character trait because it expresses and reveals who you truly are. By laughing hysterically and making non-sense jokes reveals part of you. Your shy self if you are, becomes shameless and their creativity takes place. Positive emotions are coming out of you and everybody likes that, it makes them feel a sense of satisfaction in their lives. You have a good laugh a day and you'll remember it for the rest of the day and this will make you smile.

To write a humorous narrative follow these 5 tips. First, think about and consider something that you think your audience will laugh at. Remember to connect to your audience and tell a joke that'll make your audience laugh and not only what you think. Second, think about current events because those events can make an excellent joke material that you never knew would. Third, watch out on making any controversial topics that might hurt somebody's feelings without you knowing. Fourth, try figuring out what kind of joke structure you want. For example a one liner punchline, remember that less words on describing your joke. If you write a whole story, that will bore your audience on how long it takes until you get to the joke. Fifth, add some sarcasm and exaggerate some words, this way you are enhancing your joke. After all that, if you think that you have a good joke, practice your joke to a friend before telling an audience. Other peoples opinion on your joke will help you so you can revise it till' its great.

My comedic monologue is about homework and originally got the idea from Mr. Sanderl. It's pure sarcasm and won't offend anybody. In my opinion, my comedic monologue is funny because we have our point of views with homework and if you add sarcasm to it, it'll make it funny. Sarcasm makes everything funny and that's why I used that technique. Here's my joke, "Homework, the BEST thing you'll ever get from school! Just spend 8 hours in school and another additional hours doing homework is the bestIf you don't turn it on time, OF COURSE you're not going to get a bad grade. Just a few warnings and a few calls home, but that's not a BIG deal. Maybe just a few "You can't do this" and "start doing this" on your everyday basis. Just to get you started on your LOVELY homework. EVERYBODY looks forward on having homework over the weeken because isn't it the best!? I can't wait to see another lovely pile of homework to do, just GREAT I LOVE it SO MUCH!"

Motivational Poster

In our new project called Motivational Poster we require 2 text layers, 4 images, kerning, triadic color scheme, visual balance, blending options, personal quotes and our manifesto that we made in our previous blog post. The two text layers are personal and manifesto and the 4 images is our symbols and a portrait picture of us. Kerning is required because there shall be no empty space and the whole entire page should be filled with words filled with our personal quotes and manifesto.

I made my Motivational Poster by having all the things I need like my manifesto and personal quotes. First I created a text box for both of my text layers. Then I left aligned my text so it's easier to create a box, I used the kerning tools to do so. After that, I added my symbolic images and a portrait picture to create my background. Next I started to add my triadic color scheme, adjusted my colors to match my background. It wasn't that hard to do as kerning. After that I adjusted my background by going to Layers> Layer Adjustment and adding color balance to match my text layers. I also added curves but I don't think that's a must. After that I just saved it to a JPEG and turned it in on time.

The biggest challenge I faced and mostly everyone is kerning. Trying to fit everything without any space is just hard. At first I thought that I wasn't going to fit everything together but I did and it only took about a week or less. How I would improve my kerning is just adjusting my text size so it's easier to fit everything together and it doesn't take that much time to try and fit small texts throughout the page. I also think that if I hadn't gotten that much words and could've just had little text so I only had to adjust the text size and fill the page completely easier than the hard way I took.

Personal Manifesto

Hey guys it's Kyla and I'm back from summer!

Here are 5 interesting facts about my current self. Nothing really has changed from me, I'm still weird like always, still stubborn, fun to be around with, makes a lot of friends, and I love being around with kids. This starting of the school year I had made a lot of friends that are mostly six graders. I'm pretty sure they know that I'm weird but don't worry they are too. I'm not that stubborn in my opinion, although my friends probably thinks I'm still stubborn like always. Kids makes me happy, their so cute and playful like me.

Give Chances to People! Follow your Heart. Take Risks! Set Goals for Yourself! Live Life the Fullest Way Possible. Nothing is Impossible. If you want it, Work for It. Extend your Dreams. See the World. Discover. Be Grateful with what you have. Find Love within your Loved Ones. Learn to Love Others. Love Yourself and Others. Adventure throughout your Life. Learn to Forgive, Forgive and Learn. Make Friends so you’re not Alone in Life.

My manifesto applies to my readers because overall what I'm trying to say is that live while your still a kid. Do all the things you've never tried so your childhood was worth it. Your not going to be a child forever so cherish it before you turn into an adult and do work all the time. The most important is setting goals for yourself, only a portion of people can explore the world. I suggest to make a list and work on it till' you get to the point where you are proud that you achieved your goals you set.

Music Videos Rock!

My teammates are Raiden, Jhoanna, Ashley, and I. We didn't have that much things done but we still stay productive. For our music video my teammates contributed by helping out. Ashley helps us film, Jhoanna tells us some advices on what to do, me and Raiden does our parts in the music video which is about half of our plan. Raiden is a hardworking teammate, he makes sure that we get things done and tells us what we do so we can stop doing it. Jhoanna is like a person who cheers for us when she isn't doing anything but when it comes to her part she will work. Ashley likes filming so she is somewhat our filmer and does a great job at it. Were eventually going to do Ashley and Jhoanna's parts when we can, for now we are doing me and Raidens' part first because we have a lot to do and we should to the hard things so everything else is easy work.

My opinion on which part our audience will enjoy is the story. The reason why is because its about love and you know people will find one, one day. It can probably relate from your past or your upcoming future. That's basically the part that I think you guys will enjoy, there are some other parts to see but I don't know if your going to enjoy it. Either or I think this music video is going to be enjoyable for all the people out there. I find it interesting that most of the teams has to do something about love. Love is such a strong word to start off with, so we will probably encounter some problems.

For this music video it will show what we learned this whole entire school year by our editing. How we use transitions, effects, etc. because that makes everything more interesting. Also how we can use simple effects to make such a great impact on to the film. For example slow-motion can make things all dramatic and adds emotion. To make this music video awesome we have to work together and put together our brains to make it work. Even though we learned a lot of things, I forgot some of them. That's why we have teammates! To make us remember things. This project I think tests our skills, if we listen closely do Mr. Sanderl's demos, and to have fun. There is some ups and downs doing this project but we will work it out.

Lyrical Livelihood

In this new project my teammates are Raiden, Ashley and Jhoanna. We had the choice to picked a song to lip-sync and we decided to pick Sugar by Maroon 5. My favorite lyrics in Sugar is the chorus. In most of the songs I listen to my favorite parts are mostly the chorus. I am in-charge of part of the chorus which I will lip-sync. The lyrics of this song makes me feel hyper thinking about sugar.

Our music video is Sugar by Maroon 5, we picked this song because we agreed to it. How this song is organized, by the beat and all makes it a remarkable song. We know the song and it's lyrics so we don't need to spend our time to memorize it. Also, this song has a very catchy chorus that we can easily dance too, but we don't know if we are going to dance. It does have some high pitched points but we can deal with it.

Our visual story for this music video is about Raiden "chasing" me which relates to love. If you listen closely to the lyrics it talks about how he needs loving. Although he is singing to people who is getting married it still relates to love. We are re-creating that by having Raiden as the man who chases a girl (me) because he wants her back. We are going to add some flashbacks to make it look like they had loved each other.

Our Animation Story

P5T8 Sophia Faces Fears from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


Each team had to pick a focus statement to show for their animation. Our focus statement for this animation is "Sophia Faces Fear." This tells Sophia's story because it shows her facing her fears and it shows the fears she faces in our animation. It's pretty hard to tell that she's facing her fears but I hope you understand it. Sophia was played as herself, Alaka'i as Harry Potter, Micah as the professor and me as the friend.

Our lesson for this animation is that you can face your fears if you believe in yourself. Sophia wanted to get out of the book so she had to face her three biggest fears to get out. It takes courage to face your fears, Sophia is scared but she still decides to take the challenge. By the end she receives a trophy for all that she's done.

Our best moments were in the beginning and the end because we didn't have much stress at those points and we felt relieved when it was the end because we accomplished a lot. Our worst moments were in the middle of the making of our animation. We had to deal with a lot of things, we argued but we got it together. Also sometimes we can't decide to do which and which scene is which. Half of the time we argued about those things.

Animation Outtakes

For this new animation project Alaka'i, Ashley, Sophia, and Micah are my teammates. We are expected to do a real life animation mixed with Photoshop, Stykz, or Whiteboard. Two interesting facts about Ashley Alfiler is that she cheers for Eagles and she wants to be a coach when she grows up. Sophia Gregory plays the piano and also plays volleyball. Alakai Gonsalves is in Boys Scouts and likes to play sports.

Stop-motion animation is a type of animation that requires photos. To make one, you need a bunch of pictures that describes what the person is doing. For example I am walking, each step I take somebody will take a picture, when you put all those together it will look like I am walking normally but in pictures. GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. This kind of format allows people view it in the Internet. Although, you have to draw out your scene.

Our story is about "Sophia Faces Fear", she dreams about her being in the Harry Potter book/movie. Her dream takes her on until she faces her biggest fear and a challenging challenge. Her challenge was to go through a raft while an alligator is chasing her and fighting a snake. We are going to manipulate the movie, we are not going take a picture of the actual movie. You should care because our story is all about facing your fear and how your dreams can take you places unexpectedly. We really had a hard time to think of this idea, even though it's not a type of story that makes sense, I hope we still get a good grade