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Showing posts with label Acting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acting. Show all posts
March 5, 2013
March 12, 2010
I Watch Twilight and Scott Pilgrim Trailers and React
Warning: There is no screaming or nudity in this video.
UPDATE: I watched the "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World" trailer to give things an even fight (stuff many girls are crazy about against stuff many guys are crazy about). It is below. There is also no screaming or nudity in this video.
April 24, 2009
February 26, 2009
Some Acting Tips
The first in a series of my (sarcastic?) musings on acting.
What are some of your acting/auditioning observations and tips? I'll include them with commentary in my next post.
October 29, 2008
Video Highlight: Urban Legend Tribute
I love scary stories, urban legends and slasher movies. And my wife and I made a music video that is a tribute to all three.
Amelia and I were happy to work together to plan, shoot, make-out and stay up late to make this thing come together. Amelia came up with the song, concept and costumes, of course. We shot it by ourselves using available light and stacks of books, chairs, tool boxes and the hood of our car for a tripod. I then quickly had to learn how to use iMovie and edit it together. For what it is, I think it's fun and perfect for Halloween. Enjoy? Watch it and tell me if you get it. (Lyrics posted below the video window.)
This is not the first time -- you tried to get away
This is not a party -- where people know your name
This is not a classroom -- with teacher at the board
This is not a cat show -- with prizes at the door
Chorus
Go -- don't you go
Won't you stay with me one more day
If we get through one more night
If we get through one more night
This is not a horse race -- where winners beat the time
This is not a funeral -- with mourners in a line
This is not a sitcom -- where everything's alright
This is not a prison -- with terror through the night.
Chorus, etc.
Happy Halloween, readers!
Amelia and I were happy to work together to plan, shoot, make-out and stay up late to make this thing come together. Amelia came up with the song, concept and costumes, of course. We shot it by ourselves using available light and stacks of books, chairs, tool boxes and the hood of our car for a tripod. I then quickly had to learn how to use iMovie and edit it together. For what it is, I think it's fun and perfect for Halloween. Enjoy? Watch it and tell me if you get it. (Lyrics posted below the video window.)
This is not the first time -- you tried to get away
This is not a party -- where people know your name
This is not a classroom -- with teacher at the board
This is not a cat show -- with prizes at the door
Chorus
Go -- don't you go
Won't you stay with me one more day
If we get through one more night
If we get through one more night
This is not a horse race -- where winners beat the time
This is not a funeral -- with mourners in a line
This is not a sitcom -- where everything's alright
This is not a prison -- with terror through the night.
Chorus, etc.
Happy Halloween, readers!
May 20, 2008
Video Highlight: I Want My Crisps
Oh, and we (The Thrillionaires' Cheap Thrills) have show tonight. 8 pm. $5. Covey Center in Provo. coveycenter.org
Please come. We just might break into song also.
May 2, 2008
Video Highlight: The Carousel
This clip is from my current favorite TV show "Mad Men." If I could present and write for my clients like these guys, I'd be guaranteed a job for the rest of my life.
"Mad Men" is in reruns on AMC. Check it out.
"Mad Men" is in reruns on AMC. Check it out.
March 12, 2008
February 29, 2008
An Almost Diablo Cody Sighting and Why I Need to Get Out More
I was up in SLC for an audition for High School Musical 3 yesterday. I read for Junkyard Attendant and I think I nailed it. So when you see High School Musical 3 and I'm not in it, I want you all to look at who is the Junkyard Attendant and say to yourselves "I bet Brett would have been way better at delivering that one line." OK?
But that's not the exiting part. And here is why getting out of the office for lunch and/or auditions is always a good thing. After the audition, I went to an old favorite lunch spot of mine on 4oo E Broadway called Greek Souvlaki No. 1 for a gyro. While I was waiting for my food I heard the following conversation from two people at the table next to me:
Scruffy twenty-something guy (STG): "Girls are all sluts."
The mom or, perhaps, psychologist (MoP): "Don't say that."
STG: "They are! And I don't f---king want to get involved with any of them, ever again, because they all want the same thing."
MoP: "And what is that?"
STG: "Sex. That's all they think about or talk about. And I f---king don't care about that stuff in my relationships; I like to actually build a relationship on other things. But the conversation always f---king comes back to sex!"
MoP: "Isn't that a part of building the relationship?"
STG: "No! Because I don't want to f---king have sex with people I actually like. I only have sex with people I hate, people I f---king despise, so that I can just be done with it ..."
MoP: "Well ... I don't ... uh ... are you going to try to work things out with Lori?"
STG: "No, I'm never going to talk to that (b-word) again. We're done."
Silence.
MoP: "OK, well, we should get going."
Mind you, the conversation was not hushed. It was the loudest conversation in the restaurant. Louder than anything there, the dishes, the grill, the ambient music, everything. It was impossible to hear anything else. C-R-A-Z-Y.
What is so strange is how he almost had a healthy view of relationships, you know? It's not a bad idea to develop the relationship first before getting physical. About 99% of the time it's the best idea. But then he is also going out and seeking sex from women he knows he will despise and thinks all women are promiscuous. That's the disturbed and unhealthy part (in case you were wondering). I bet you I could write a screenplay based on this guy and get David Fincher to direct it.
In the same restaurant I saw a Diablo Cody doppleganger and was so close to congratulating her on her Oscar. I should have but, then again, I only like to congratulate people I really really hate.
But that's not the exiting part. And here is why getting out of the office for lunch and/or auditions is always a good thing. After the audition, I went to an old favorite lunch spot of mine on 4oo E Broadway called Greek Souvlaki No. 1 for a gyro. While I was waiting for my food I heard the following conversation from two people at the table next to me:
Scruffy twenty-something guy (STG): "Girls are all sluts."
The mom or, perhaps, psychologist (MoP): "Don't say that."
STG: "They are! And I don't f---king want to get involved with any of them, ever again, because they all want the same thing."
MoP: "And what is that?"
STG: "Sex. That's all they think about or talk about. And I f---king don't care about that stuff in my relationships; I like to actually build a relationship on other things. But the conversation always f---king comes back to sex!"
MoP: "Isn't that a part of building the relationship?"
STG: "No! Because I don't want to f---king have sex with people I actually like. I only have sex with people I hate, people I f---king despise, so that I can just be done with it ..."
MoP: "Well ... I don't ... uh ... are you going to try to work things out with Lori?"
STG: "No, I'm never going to talk to that (b-word) again. We're done."
Silence.
MoP: "OK, well, we should get going."
Mind you, the conversation was not hushed. It was the loudest conversation in the restaurant. Louder than anything there, the dishes, the grill, the ambient music, everything. It was impossible to hear anything else. C-R-A-Z-Y.
What is so strange is how he almost had a healthy view of relationships, you know? It's not a bad idea to develop the relationship first before getting physical. About 99% of the time it's the best idea. But then he is also going out and seeking sex from women he knows he will despise and thinks all women are promiscuous. That's the disturbed and unhealthy part (in case you were wondering). I bet you I could write a screenplay based on this guy and get David Fincher to direct it.
In the same restaurant I saw a Diablo Cody doppleganger and was so close to congratulating her on her Oscar. I should have but, then again, I only like to congratulate people I really really hate.
January 18, 2008
LDS Film Festival Features ... Me
Today, at 2:30 pm, a short film I have a lead role in will premiere at the LDS Film Festival. It's a part of a series of three short films on faith. My really really good firend Matt Mattson is also in it and plays the part of a blind guy. Matt isn't even blind in real life! If you don't have anything else going on, come check it out. Tickets are $6 and out short will probably screen at 3pm.
*click image to enlarge
*click image to enlarge
January 9, 2008
A Picture is Worth a Thrillion Words
Some pics of me and my fellow Thrillionaires.
Come see the improv group some friends and I started. We are called The Thrillionaires and are performing now at Covey Center for the Arts in Provo. We don't have a website yet but here is the venue's website: www.coveycenter.org
Come see the improv group some friends and I started. We are called The Thrillionaires and are performing now at Covey Center for the Arts in Provo. We don't have a website yet but here is the venue's website: www.coveycenter.org
December 18, 2007
September 19, 2007
YouTube and Me
I created a YouTube page that contains some of the commercial, industrial and web shoots I have done.
My You Tube Site
Feel free to comment here if you like any of it.
My You Tube Site
Feel free to comment here if you like any of it.
March 29, 2006
Overexposed
I've been lucky lately. As many of you know, I love to act. Most of the year I fulfill my desire to do so by being in a play or two or doing some improv here and there. But every so often I get to make a commercial, take a small part in a local indie feature or appear in an industrial vignette.
But right now, the flood gates are open. Four short parodies I was in played all week during Novell's Brainshare at the Salt Palace. Two versions of an anti-tobacco commercial started airing last week (a 60 and a 30). And, this week or next ... wait for it ... a Check City commercial starts up. So, watch for me Utah readers. I'm everywhere right now. I'm big. I'm a thing.
But not really. I just liked saying that for a second. I do, honestly, love acting and though it's not Hollywood it is a blast to be working. If you see me, let me know.
Oh, and here is a link to the Novell parodies. The ones I'm in are 24x7, Lost, CSI and Desperate IT Guys. I was told they are more funny if you are an IT person or involved in the computer industry.
Novell Videos
If you think I suck, spare me the comments. Just tell me in person.
But right now, the flood gates are open. Four short parodies I was in played all week during Novell's Brainshare at the Salt Palace. Two versions of an anti-tobacco commercial started airing last week (a 60 and a 30). And, this week or next ... wait for it ... a Check City commercial starts up. So, watch for me Utah readers. I'm everywhere right now. I'm big. I'm a thing.
But not really. I just liked saying that for a second. I do, honestly, love acting and though it's not Hollywood it is a blast to be working. If you see me, let me know.
Oh, and here is a link to the Novell parodies. The ones I'm in are 24x7, Lost, CSI and Desperate IT Guys. I was told they are more funny if you are an IT person or involved in the computer industry.
Novell Videos
If you think I suck, spare me the comments. Just tell me in person.
July 27, 2005
See How They Bleed
The play I've been rehearsing for just opened last weekend. It's called "See How They Run" and it's a British farce that takes place in the late 40s (and was written in the late 40s). It's wacky and silly and there are vicars.
The process of opening the show has been difficult. It was an abbreviated rehearsal process that somehow was made shorter due to various director and cast member conflicts. Also, it took me weeks to heal completely from the previously mentioned motorcycle accident so I was gimpily rehearsing as it was. Then there were cast members who refused to learn their lines and were still learning them on opening night. I am happy we're up and running (no pun intended) now because the process was dreadful. But I love the cast and crew. Despite the hardships (expected or self-inflicted) we have all enjoyed working together. I know many of them from either Comedy Sportz (Jake Suazo, Jeff Blake, Curt and Tonia Doussett, Hailey Smith) or previous plays (Jake, Hailey and Stephanie Grey). So that's been the best thing about it. Showing up and hanging with my friends. I've made new friends too. And, for once, no enemies. Nothing like how during "Midsummer..." the mechanicals all took me out back, stripped me down, put me in a loin cloth and made me fight a rabid St. Bernard, placing bets on who'd survive. Ryan Simmons lost a lot of money, I heard. Long story short: we're open, we're all friends and we're glad rehearsal is over. But ... we had an accident the first Saturday night.
There is a part where I have to assist a woman who's fainted and I'm dragging her around the room with me. I'm supposed to get to a point on the floor, yell, then release her, allowing her to crumple to the floor. Well, I missed my mark and the actress (who had kept her eyes closed the whole time) went to fall to the floor. On the way down, the back of her head met table. She stayed down until the lights went out 10 seconds later for intermission and then jumped up and ran to the dressing room bleeding down the back of her head and neck.
Shock and worry filled backstage and everyone was in a frantic mode of panic and concern. When I found out what had happened I had to hold back emotion. The producers came back and we all took turns trying to comfort her. Which was probably really annoying. We put pressure on the wound and a cold compress on her neck in an attempt to stop the bleeding. One thing I've since learned is that if you tell a person someone hit their head and it started bleeding, that person will say "Oh yeah, head injuries bleed a lot" 100% of the time.
We stopped the bleeding and then mopped the blood out of her hair the best we could. Then the producers handed me this Liquid Band-Aid stuff and I poured a bunch in there to help keep it from reopening. Technology is amazing, really. It's like medicinal super-glue. Then April (the actress whose head bled a lot) does something even more cool than technological Band-Aids. She tells everyone she is going on with the show. Here was this actor nursing a concussion and head injury telling us that she'd go on. They put her in a similar shirt that wasn't blood soaked and she finished the show. What a trouper. I had to fight the urge to cry and throw up the rest of the night (as did she, I'm sure, for different reasons). I just felt awful that we were put in a position on stage where that could happen to her. We definately should have had a stage combat advisor there to teach us how to drop/fall safely and we should have run it more than once a night during rehearsals.
She went to the doctor to get checked out the next day and they said the cut was going to be fine. They told her she had a slight concussion and to take it easy for a bit. April and I have since vowed to practice our staging of that moment every night before the show opens and I think her husband taught her some safe stage-fainting techniques. Hopefully we have our bases covered and nothing like this ever happens again.
Lesson: women will be injured if they trust me.
The process of opening the show has been difficult. It was an abbreviated rehearsal process that somehow was made shorter due to various director and cast member conflicts. Also, it took me weeks to heal completely from the previously mentioned motorcycle accident so I was gimpily rehearsing as it was. Then there were cast members who refused to learn their lines and were still learning them on opening night. I am happy we're up and running (no pun intended) now because the process was dreadful. But I love the cast and crew. Despite the hardships (expected or self-inflicted) we have all enjoyed working together. I know many of them from either Comedy Sportz (Jake Suazo, Jeff Blake, Curt and Tonia Doussett, Hailey Smith) or previous plays (Jake, Hailey and Stephanie Grey). So that's been the best thing about it. Showing up and hanging with my friends. I've made new friends too. And, for once, no enemies. Nothing like how during "Midsummer..." the mechanicals all took me out back, stripped me down, put me in a loin cloth and made me fight a rabid St. Bernard, placing bets on who'd survive. Ryan Simmons lost a lot of money, I heard. Long story short: we're open, we're all friends and we're glad rehearsal is over. But ... we had an accident the first Saturday night.
There is a part where I have to assist a woman who's fainted and I'm dragging her around the room with me. I'm supposed to get to a point on the floor, yell, then release her, allowing her to crumple to the floor. Well, I missed my mark and the actress (who had kept her eyes closed the whole time) went to fall to the floor. On the way down, the back of her head met table. She stayed down until the lights went out 10 seconds later for intermission and then jumped up and ran to the dressing room bleeding down the back of her head and neck.
Shock and worry filled backstage and everyone was in a frantic mode of panic and concern. When I found out what had happened I had to hold back emotion. The producers came back and we all took turns trying to comfort her. Which was probably really annoying. We put pressure on the wound and a cold compress on her neck in an attempt to stop the bleeding. One thing I've since learned is that if you tell a person someone hit their head and it started bleeding, that person will say "Oh yeah, head injuries bleed a lot" 100% of the time.
We stopped the bleeding and then mopped the blood out of her hair the best we could. Then the producers handed me this Liquid Band-Aid stuff and I poured a bunch in there to help keep it from reopening. Technology is amazing, really. It's like medicinal super-glue. Then April (the actress whose head bled a lot) does something even more cool than technological Band-Aids. She tells everyone she is going on with the show. Here was this actor nursing a concussion and head injury telling us that she'd go on. They put her in a similar shirt that wasn't blood soaked and she finished the show. What a trouper. I had to fight the urge to cry and throw up the rest of the night (as did she, I'm sure, for different reasons). I just felt awful that we were put in a position on stage where that could happen to her. We definately should have had a stage combat advisor there to teach us how to drop/fall safely and we should have run it more than once a night during rehearsals.
She went to the doctor to get checked out the next day and they said the cut was going to be fine. They told her she had a slight concussion and to take it easy for a bit. April and I have since vowed to practice our staging of that moment every night before the show opens and I think her husband taught her some safe stage-fainting techniques. Hopefully we have our bases covered and nothing like this ever happens again.
Lesson: women will be injured if they trust me.
June 27, 2005
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"... you need to rush as quickly as possible through your sides, as not to waste the director's time by having any real moments."
True. I mean the director has better things to do than audition people. Hurry it along! He probably precast the show anyway. Also, I like to not only go fast but never look up from the sides as well. Thanks for the tip, Hailey!
Emmie said ...
"When deciding between fighting against emotion and crying, always choose crying. The more you can cry during an audition piece, scene, or play, the better! Crying is very dramatic, and shows the director and audience how good you are (at crying)."
My hot wife Amelia said ...
"... actors should always go out of their way to help out in other departments, when on set. And if you ask, "Can I help you steam those curtains?" or "Can I help you carry those stingers?" and the answer comes back a hearty "NO!" then don't listen and pitch right in without hesitation."
I love this woman. Also, she is dead on. In film, everyone just shares each others' jobs. Unions be damned. Am I right? So, feel free to pick up a sandbag and move it. Just be ready for the grip to come along and tell you that your scene could be faster and have more crying.