Monologue background

who: Travis
How old: 30ish
Sex: male
Personality: Vietnam vet who is isolated and desperate for anything akin to companionship

Where: New York, a pay phone
What: he's calling up a girl who he had gone on an unsuccessful date with
Who: the girl he tried to date
Backstory: he's calling up this girl as a desperate act to get her back into his life so that he won't be alone and isolated. He who is apathetic to the smut and grime of New York didn't realize that the girl would be upset by the film they watched.

Monologue

Hello Betsy. Hi, it's Travis. How ya doin'? Listen, uh, I'm, I'm sorry about the, the other night. I didn't know that was the way you felt about it. Well, I-I didn't know that was the way you felt. I-I-I would have taken ya somewhere else. Uh, are you feeling better or oh you maybe had a virus or somethin', a 24-hour virus you know. It happens. Yeah, umm, you uh, you're workin' hard. Yeah. Uh, would you like to have, uh, some dinner, uh with me in the next, you know, few days or somethin'? Well, how about just a cup of coffee? I'll come by the, uh, headquarters or somethin', we could, uh...Oh, OK, OK. Did you get my flowers in the...? You didn't get them? I sent some flowers, uh...Yeah, well, OK, OK. Can I call you again? Uh, tomorrow or the next day? OK. No, I'm gonna...OK. Yeah, sure, OK. So long.

Silent Movie

My group's Project was called "Kill Sam" a action comedy. I thought the movie went well with the jokes working and the action being ok for this kind of production. The strongest part would be the acting. I don't think it would have worked half as well if we did not have actors who were willing to act as crazily as they did. The jokes in the Movie were all physical and silly and without silly physical actors it wouldn't have worked at all. The worst part was the action, especially the fight between me and Jaden. It was at times slow and unexciting for something that is suppose to be thrilling though that's due more to our production value which was nonexistent. What really could have been better was the cinematography, it was very flat in my opinion. Most of the movie was shot at a distance from the actors and it it worked for the first scene because of the symmetry and action. I feel it was used to much for the second half of the movie, with only a couple of close ups. The camera at times did not entirely capture all of the action but all in all it was used effectively. The other group's project, in my opinion, wasn't the greatest. I thought some of the jokes fell flat and while I actually knew what was happening I couldn't follow all the stories because the camera was too far away. I could follow the main plot of the incompetent flight attendant but the second story on the right was impossible to really follow due to acting and as mentioned before the far away camera shot. I thought it was good story though and if it had been executed better I think it could have been better than our group's project in terms of plot and jokes. My performance was good for what we were doing. I excelled at acting outrageously and exaggerated. I could certainly work on my fake fighting skills because they are not the best. Most of what I had to do was easy, probably because there was no dialogue and no dramatic scenes. It was certainly was a lot of fun, I think the only part that was challenging was the synchronized dancing because I had to figure out what was funny for such a simplistic routine. I learned that I could have been even more exaggerated and that when you use a prop in a unusual way it looks great. 

The wonderfully inept: a brief history of me

I R Jack. I think those were the first letters I ever spitted out on the Internet. I said them when I at the tender at of 10 wanted to establish my self on a website called club penguin, a multiplayer game for young kids. I was then ridiculed for my terrible grammar and inelegant speech. I think that the interaction I just told you about sums up much of what my life has been. I try and communicate something and because of how I act or talk it either is not conveyed correctly or I'm insulted for my efforts. Sounds a bit narcissistic saying that but it's how I perceive most interactions in my life. 

        Anyways, I took an interest into acting when I was about 13 and joined a local theater in adolescent production of mid summers night dream. I took the lead role of Oberon. It was terrible. I think they only cast me as Oberon cause I was tall, I honestly didn't know what I was doing in the entire show and since is was Shakespeare I had to work very hard to even understand what I was saying at times. Afterwards I quit the theater and wasn't gonna do any type of production ever again. But then my teachers at the school started an improv club after school. I immediately joined cause this chick I was digging wanted to do it. I never got to date the chick but I did get into improv. It was the most fun I had during my middle school years. I  loved every minute of it. I liked it so much I preformed improv with a group of friends for a talent show and got the third prize a long with several people patting me on the back telling me how great I did. I eventually let my mom talk me into going back to that theatre to do a variety show that was mainly improv and skits. That was a fantastic experience and showed me that if I ever wanted to make a career of acting that improv could lead me to success. 

              I've seen many theatrical shows most of which have been musicals with comedy. I think the best show I've ever seen was once cause the music was very passionate. Like the first time the band plays or when the main character plays by himself blew me away with how much energy and emotion went into the performance. I could never act like that because I often am never invested into what I'm acting as. That is one of my goals in class, to be able to have an emotional range as an actor. So far I've failed this task so I'm trying to do better at it. I also just wanna be a better actor in general. 

          That was a little about me, and I hope you enjoyed reading it. I certainly had about 2% of fun writing it. 

Tanks and ttyl. -Jack