Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 7 - Acting Script

Scene 1: Int. Ayrton’s house

Reon, Travis, Michael and Ayrton are sitting at the dinner table. Reon is trying to cut his sausage on a plate, but can’t. Everyone is just staring at Reon trying to cut the sausage.
Ayrton: Um… Reon, do you need some help?
Reon: NO! I’m okay. This is just one tough sausage.
Reon looks at the sausage and gives the death stare.
Reon (in low voice): You’re probably wondering, have I cut you 6 times or 5? Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this a knife, one of the only types of knives in the world, and would cut you in half, you gotta ask yourself… Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do ya?
The camera view changes to stare at the sausage. It doesn’t move. Reon screams and starts cutting the sausage again.
Camera view changes to see Michael, Travis and Ayrton staring at each other.
Camera view changes back to Reon, who is still screaming, on the ground, still trying to cut the sausage. He then stops, sighs, and starts eating it by hand. He gets back up on the table again.
Reon: Anyway Ayrton, what were you saying?
Ayrton: Well, there is this one girl.
Travis: Who’s not a chimp?
Ayrton: That was a mistake! I should’ve never gotten involved with her!
Reon: Or who’s not a dog?
Ayrton: I haven’t gone out with a dog.
Reon’s eyes widen.
Reon: I thought we were talking about our old relationships.
Michael: No dickhead, we were talking about Ayrton’s new secret girlfriend!
Reon stops eating the sausage.
Reon: I think I should go.
Reon gets up and walks away. Can hear Reon punching the wall
Reon (OOV): God damn it! Why’d you tell them that one! You should’ve told them the one about the duck! Jesus!
Ayrton: Anyway… She isn’t a chimp, or a dog.
Michael: Then what is she? A horse?
Ayrton: NO! She’s a normal human being! Why does everyone think I’m dating chimps and horses? I’m not a retard anymore!
Michael: I wouldn’t count on that.
Travis: Anyway… Just tell us who this secret girl is of yours.
Ayrton: No. Why should I?
Michael: I’ll let you play on my World of Warcraft account?
Everyone stares at Michael.
Michael: What did I say?
Travis: Could you get any gayer?
Michael: But Reon was talking about fucking a dog… It’s just… I’ll be quiet.
Travis: Good. Now Ayrton, you know the extreme damage I can do if a little someone doesn’t tell a big someone.
Ayrton: You’re gonna rape them?
Travis reaches across the table and smashes Ayrton’s head into the table.
Travis: You should’ve learned by now to keep your mouth shut.
Ayrton: Maybe you should learn to keep your mouth shut and you might loose a few kilos.
Travis jumps across the table. Ayrton ducks and runs off. Travis gets off the ground and follows Ayrton. Michael is still there, confused.
Michael: What’s so wrong with saying World of Warcraft?
Camera cuts to Ayrton being chased by Travis down the hallway. They then smash into a room.
Camera view changes to show Reon on the bed, in the Rocky Horror costume worn by Frank’N’Furter, singing along to the Rocky Horror song ‘Sweet Transvsestite. They are both staring at Reon. Reon sees them and stops singing.
Reon: You’d think by now I’d have learned to get drunk back at my place… When I’m alone.
Camera cuts to Ayrton and Travis, nodding there heads. They walk out of the room and back down the hallway.
Ayrton: That’s not gonna go away for a while.
Travis whimpers.
Camera view changes back to Michael at the table.
Michael (talking to himself): I mean, Reon’s allowed to go around saying he humped a bloody dog! And he gets off! Meanwhile, I just mention World of Warcraft, and everyone is out to get me! What the hell!
Travis and Ayrton sit down.
Travis: I can’t even remember what we were fighting about before.
Ayrton: Probably a good thing.
Michael: I mean, World of Warcraft is awesome! How could people not like it?
Travis: Michael. Just shut up will ya?
Michael: NO! I’m standing up for myself!
Michael smashes his fist on the table.
Michael: Ow…
Michael holds his fist. Reon then comes back and sits down.
Reon: So who’s this dream girl, Ayrton?
Ayrton: Jodie.
Travis: What the fuck? You tell Reon, but not us? Reon’s a crazy alcoholic fused dickhead, and you tell him!
Ayrton: Oh my god! I told REON about Jodie! Holy shit!
Reon: Who’s Jodie?
Ayrton takes out a picture of Jodie and shows Reon.
Ayrton (Triumphtly): That is Jodie.
Reon: Okay… Who’s Jodie?
Travis: The girl Ayrton is in love with.
Reon: Okay… Interesting… And who’s this a picture of?
Ayrton: Jodie.
Reon: Okay… And who’s Jodie?
Ayrton: The girl I’m in love with!
Reon: Ahhh! I get it! But wait… Who’s this a picture of?
Ayrton: Jo-die.
Reon: Okay… I’m still confused. Who’s Jodie?
Ayrton: God dam it Reon! This is a picture of Jodie and Jodie is the girl I am in love with! You understand!!!!!
Reon: Jeez Ayrton. You don’t have to yell. You could’ve just told me. Jesus.
Ayrton sighs and falls back in his chair.
Reon: And you like her?
Ayrton: YES!
Reon starts laughing.
Ayrton: What’s so funny?
Reon stops laughing.
Ayrton: What’s so funny?
Reon: It’s just… Michael’s in the corner of the photo, playing World of Warcraft!!
Reon and Travis start laughing.
Ayrton: Wait! Michael! You know Jodie?
Michael: Yeah… We kinda went out…
Ayrton’s face is getting redder.
Michael: And I think I’m gonna shut up. Um… I gotta doctor’s appointment soon, so… I’ll just be going now.
Michael gets up. Ayrton picks up Reon’s plate that held the sausage and throws it at Michael’s head. Michael turns around. Ayrton runs away. There is a knock at the door. Michael answers it. Jodie is there.
Michael: Hey Jodie!
Jodie: Hey Michael! Ready to go to the concert?
Michael: Yeah. Let me just get the guys
Michael turns around.
Michael (yelling): I wonder if we want to buy any prostitutes!
Reon, Travis and Ayrton appear next to Michael.
Reon: Is that the prostitute?
Michael: No, she’s…
Michael stops.
Michael: Where’d Reon and Jodie go?
Hear Jodie scream. Michael, Travis and Ayrton look out the front door.
Camera cuts to Reon chasing Jodie across the front lawn.
Camera then cuts back to Michael, Travis and Ayrton.
Ayrton: This is my chance to do a good impression for Jodie! I’ll save you!
Ayrton runs out the door.
Camera cuts to Ayrton running over to Jodie.
Ayrton: Hey! Where’s Reon?
Hear revving of a car.
Camera cuts to Reon, who is in a car, revving the engine. Reon pokes his head out the window.
Reon: I want my prostitute!
Michael runs in front of the car while its revving the engine.
Michael: Listen here! Jodie is not a prostitute!
Reon: Hey! Jodie sounds familiar!
Michael: Yes! So don’t hurt her!
Reon: Yeah! I think I’ve had a prostitute called Jodie already!
Michael: What!
Reon starts driving the car at Michael. The car smashes at Michael, and Michael is unharmed. Reon crawls out of the car.
Reon: Bloody Michael. No fun at all.
Jodie runs over to Michael.
Jodie: Thanks for saving my life!
Michael: You know the real hero was Ayrton.
Michael winks at Ayrton. Ayrton walks over proudly.
Jodie: What! He didn’t do anything! He just stood there holding me!
Michael: No seriously! If it wasn’t for him, I’d be dead!
Jodie: Stop trying to make Ayrton look awesome so I’d date him! We’ve still got an hour left of the movie!
Michael: Fair enough! Piss of Ayrton!

Scene 2: Concert

Michael, Travis, Reon and Jodie are all at the concert. The concert hasn’t started yet, and they are just talking.
Ayrton: Michael, why are you such a dickhead?
Michael: You heard what Jodie said! I can’t compete against her!
Travis: Ayrton’s just upset because Jodie doesn’t like him.
Ayrton: She never said that!
Travis: Everyone can see it.
Michael: I’m scared.
Ayrton: What’s wrong poor Michael? Past your bed time?
Michael: No! It’s just I haven’t heard from Reon for a long time.
Ayrton: Oh shit!
Ayrton gets up. Jodie and Reon’s seats are empty. Ayrton runs down the stairs.
Camera cuts to the canteen. Ayrton stops when he sees Reon and Jodie holding a bucket of food.
Ayrton: What have you done with Jodie?
Reon: Relax. We went to get some food!
Ayrton: Why didn’t you tell us?
Jodie: We did! But Michael had brought World of Warcraft with him, Travis was doing a streak across the stage, and you were fantasizing about me.
Ayrton: I was not.
Jodie: You were asleep and saying my name and your hand was down your pants.
Ayrton: I was… A bit itchy.
Deanna then comes in and gives Ayrton a big hug.
Deanna: Hello Ayrton! Hello Jodie! Hello strange person who I’ve never seen before but have actually known all my life but the script writers accidentally made me not know you are until it was too late to fix.
Reon: Um… Hello?
They start to set off. Ayrton grabs Deanna and takes her in a different direction.
Ayrton: Deanna. I need your help.
Deanna: What is it?
Ayrton: I… I… I love… Jodie.
Deanna: What about Jodie?
Ayrton: I love her!
Deanna: Cool.
Ayrton: And I need your help.
Deanna: With what?
Ayrton: making Jodie like me.
Deanna: Well, what you do is you gotta impress her. So you gotta…
Camera cuts to Reon and Jodie sitting next to Michael and Travis. Michael is on a laptop, playing World of Warcraft.
Michael: Cool! I’m level 72! Now no one will defeat me with this awesome spell.
Travis: If I hear ANYTHING remotely sounding like World of Warcraft, I will…
Travis stops and his eyes widen.
Camera cuts to see Ayrton running across the stage, stripping whilst running. Police men grab him while he tries to take his T-shirt off.
Camera cuts back to the seats. Deanna has joined them.
Jodie: God I hate people who think they are cool because they streak across the stage!
Deanna: I thought you like men who did that?
Jodie: Not anymore! I hate them! I. Hate. Them.
Deanna: Oh shit…
Camera cuts to Ayrton talking to a police man on stage.
Policeman: What’s your name?
Ayrton: Reon?
Policeman: Reon who?
Ayrton: Reon Robinson?
Policeman: That’s funny.
Ayrton: Why?
Policeman: Because me and Reon are best friends.
Ayrton: Oh shit

Source: http://www.icomedytv.com/Comedy-Scripts/Funny/View/Script/165/Love-Is-in-My-Pants.aspx

Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 6 - Production Roles

My production role for my group is publishing. After doing the research, i found out that i have the responsibilities of taking care of any items such as posters, and publishing the performance, making sure that there is a audience to watch the performance, and to make sure that people are interested in the performance itself. Real life performance roles for publishing is; press officers, Online sales and marketing manager, editor, account manager, and many more. Publishing is important to the world of theatre because in theatre there has to be someone who will make sure that there is a group of audience members to watch the performance or else there is no point of performing if no one is going to watch it. My specific understanding for my role tells me that i need to create posters, and put it around everywhere so that there is an audience to watch my group's performance. I am also responsible for making sure that the group does the performance right and doesn't mess up as it will be a public performance. I personally do think that i am prepared for this particular role as i think that i am good at distributing things and publishing is basically distributing and advertising. Which is definitely something that i think i am good at. Some goals and initial idea's that i need to start prioritizing is that i need to start preparing posters for my group. For example blogalogues is a group that does public performance and they're a well known group in New York because they have been publicized a lot, so i really need to start putting together posters, and start spreading the word about the performance of my group.

Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 5 - The Transition Bits

For the transition bits in our performance, our group decided to say love quotes in each transition. As our director chose love/marriage for our performance theme, each one of the group members got a topic about love/marriage, such as arranged marriage, love marriage, marriage in general, and comedic love. We decided to say quotes about love and marriage in each transition. So for example, if we begin with a scene of a boy meeting a girl for the first time and falling in love, our transition for the scene that will be performed after the first scene would be of love at first site.

Sources for Transition Quotes:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/love-at-first-sight
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/marriage
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/arranged-marriage
http://www.yourtango.com/2013185716/31-funny-love-quotes-comedians-who-totally-get-you
http://www.pinterest.com/martisp/love-marriage-advice-quotes-inspirations/

Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 4 - Find Your Own Material, Part 2

The theme for our group is love and marriage. The thing's that i like about this theme is that i think that our group will be able to come up with something creative related to the theme, also i like things related to love and i personally feel that this topic is something that can be taken to an extend because with this one theme we can come up with many idea's. The perspetives that interests me the most from this theme is the whole idea of love and marriage itself, because there's so much to just love and to marriage as well. I believe that this theme is the perfect theme to me. I also think that marriage is an interesting topic because in bangladesh the way that marriage ceremonies are held are very big and exciting, so i personally think that if i were to make a scene with the theme and topic of love and marriage i would do something related to the traditional way of a bangladeshi love story or marriage and the way people get married here in Bangladesh.

Source One: http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/2014/02/18/true-love-story/5571667/

I personally find this blog quite appealing because i think that it's pretty cute and also because it's a true love story. I think that as a drama student myself, i can use all my performance and theatre skills in order to elaborate more upon this blog so that the performance itself turns out good. Since the theme of our group is love and marriage i thought that maybe if i research on a true love story and find a blog that is good enough to fit the theme, then i can extend upong it and make a good script out of it that out group can do a good performance on.

Source Two: http://teenadvice.about.com/u/sty/datinglove/teenage_love_stories/I-Quit-My-Job-Because-of-Him.htm

The second blog that i found appealing was a bit more emotional, but overall i think that in our groups final performance if we contrast emotion, love, and all the pro's and con's of love and marriage together then our performance in general will turn out good. I find this blog appealing because of the story it tells, and also because it's a bit emotional which is why i picked this blog so that there's different scenarios throughout our group's performance. And also because if the performance overall has different scene's and emotions then, the performance itself will leave a mark on the audience.

Source Three: http://www.icomedytv.com/Comedy-Scripts/Funny/View/Script/165/Love-Is-in-My-Pants.aspx

I personally feel like this blog is perfect for the theme that i was assigned in my group which is love in general. And as this particular script has a lot to do with love, it's also pretty cute and funny at the same time. I don't think that i need to make any major changes to this script as it is already made, except i might have to cut out a lot of lines as the script itself is very big. Other then that i think that this is a really good script and it would fit perfectly with our theme. 

Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 3 - Find Your Own Material

Source One: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/funny-stories

For the first source, i think that this is a good source of material for myself as it's a short funny story. I believe that with my theatrical strengths i can extend this story and make it into something comedic by using a few specific production elements. As this short blog is amount a man who broke into another person's apartment, and stole the TV remote instead of the TV itself, and changes the channel every time he drive's by,  and after reading this blog, I personally think that this is something that can be turned into something funny.

Source Two: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/funny-story

This is another source that i found on the internet, which i think i could use for myself to perform to my class members. Although it's a bit short, i still personally think that this is something that could be turned into a longer skit where production elements such as props and such things would be in use. I also think that by extending this short blog i could make a great performance out of it by getting a few actors, staging elements, and more theatrical stuff.

Source Three: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/funny-story

The third source that i chose is the one that i think would be perfect for me to perform because it's really funny and i think that if i could just get a few more people to perform along with me, the performance would be really funny. If i were to stage this performance i would make sure that there were at least 5 people to represent the characters sitting in the bus. I would also make sure that there are costumes because one of the main characters from the blog had specific clothing on which i would want to show in the performance so that it's more clear to the audience for and about what the performance is based on and what the blog/performance is about. 

Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 2 - Review a Sketch

The video that i watched was "Queens of New York" by the blogalogues, and basically this short scene is where the bloagalogues have news paper in their hands that they list a bunch of things related to "the times." The way the blogalgues staged the production was that they basically came in one by one where each of the members said something related to the times and at the end of the production all the members did a small funny dance to end it off. The production elements that they added onto their performance is that each of the members played a character. For example, two of the girl's played a guy's role and i can tell that because they had hats on their heads and they also spoke like guys while performing. Another production element that i noticed that the group had in their performance was the way they projected their voices. It was very loud and clear. They also did a little dance at the end to end of the performance which is also a production element that i noticed in the video. The elements that i enjoyed the most from the performance was when each of the members of the group came in and said their lines about the times and they way they said it by projecting their voice's very loud and clear. They also had an accent on which made the performance more fun and interesting. Another element that i enjoyed from the performance was the little dance at the end, i personally think that it was a good way to end of the performance because their was a bit of music and it was also funny which gave the audience a good laugh. After watching the sample that i have watched "Queens of new york" i personally do think that the review's of the performance were valid because it was funny and also because the group did a good job performing, so i think that the review;s and the comments were valid for the performance.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU0OsaXutbw

Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 1 - Research

"Blogologues" was first invented in the spring of April 2011. Two girls from New York city named Alll and Jen were the first performers of Blogologues who performed their first show in May, after that they were invited to a 6-month development residency at USM, so that they could present their own versions of Blogologues every month. And ever since then they have been coming up with new blogologues that they would perform every month.

The 5W's:
Who are they: Two girls from New York City.
What: They perform new blogologues every month
When: blogologues was first invented in April 2011, till they were told to join the development residency at USM to perform their own blogologues every month.
Where: They perform live in New York
Why: They are doing this because they want to encourage more theatre people to start thinking about taking action and putting their theatre skills into use and for business.

The group's performance concept/philosophy is comedic theatre.

After doing my research i personally think that blogologues is a theatrical group who likes to incorporate comedic information from the internet in their own theatrical areas.

The positives of the Blogologues performances are that, they're very funny whenever they perform. Whether it's a video they put up on youtube, or whether they perform live, it's always very funny which gives the audience a good laugh and let's them enjoy the performance which is one positive element about the Blogologues. Another positive element about the blogologues is that they use the internet and they do research, which they later on turn into their own piece of work and they manage to make into a great show and a performance.

Sources:
http://blogologues.org/
http://livelyproductions.org/home/what-is-blogologues/