My critical reflection

My Critical Reflection

The Art of Comedy

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The Full Story

Before I finally share the final excerpt of our documentary, I would first like to mention the full story.

The Full Story
 This documentary follows two comedians, Chris Perez and Robert Solomon, as they try to uncover the art of comedy. Our reason for making this documentary is because we believed that stand-up comedy is sometimes looked over as a hobby and is not considered an art form. We wanted to showcase the importance of comedy, and truly demonstrate that it takes more than just a good joke to be a comedian. Our main focus is Robert Solomon because he is just starting out as a comedian, and Chris-already being a comedian- serves as the voice of reason. We also wanted to capture Robert live as he performed for his second time stand-up comedy.

The 5-min Excerpt
The 5-minute excerpt that we chose was the first 5 minutes of the documentary. In these first 5 minutes we have an introduction of the characters, and an introduction to out story. For our opening credits, we chose to make it funny, and visually express each comedians' personality. We paired our intro with some fun, quirky music that kept thatfun feel to the film. We chose not to do a voiceover narration because we wanted the artists to tell the story themselves.  This also kept the feel of the documentary light and fun.

Making the Poster

    In order to make the poster the way I pictured it,  I had to use Photoshop. I had never, ever used Photoshop in my entire life. So I grabbed a computer, looked up "how to make yourself a cartoon on Photoshop," and then just started working. I had no idea what any of the Photoshop terminologies  meant let alone what they did. I'll admit i got stuck a couple of times, and sometimes the computer would freeze for no reason. But after 9 hours, I have to say that I couldn't be happier for the way this poster came out.

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Photo-Shoot

    During our interviews with Robert, not only did he walk into my house with a green mini-skirt, he also wore a Brazzers shirt. Although this was a bit inappropriate, it was part of Robert. It was his daring jokes and fearless attitude that made Robert such a great guy. I thought that his bold statement spoke a lot about comedy, and it was then that I came up with the Idea to make Robert into a cartoon for our poster.


  On Wednesday night, I had a photo-shoot with Robert. I just told him that I wanted him to wear his mini-skirt, his Brazzers shirt and to just be himself. Robert did just that.

 

The Million Dollar Idea

Bob Marley

    On Saturday April 11, I had the opportunity to meet Eduardo Sanabria (Edo), a very respectable and talented cartoonist, in my art class. He showed us a bit of his work and taught us the basics of cartoon art. What's interesting about his art is that he utilizes both his skills for art and Photoshop to create very unique cartoons. His class inspired me to do something similar for our documentary poster.

Eduardo Sanabria

Steve Jobs

  For our poster, we knew we wanted it to be fun and capture the essence of comedy. At first, we were going to use a photograph of Robert performing, but then I came up with the idea to use what I had learned in my art class and apply it to our poster. I had the idea of using a photograph of Robert, and make it a cartoon with an influence of pop art. This would make the poster more intriguing and unique.  My only setback, however, was that I had never used Photoshop in my life.

View  more of Edo's work here:   Edo's Pinterest