When asked for a desired focus for a scheduled coaching session, a Duo sent me the following: Mainly character stuff, fleshing them out versus building out more plot. Getting better at finding and sticking to the game of the scene. What follows is some didactic and exercises that filled two hours. DIDACTIC: How do You […]
Personal Games are the focus of the base Mirror, Action, Object warm-up exercise. Engaged in either how they feel about themselves, how they feel about what they're doing, or how they feel about a mimed object, players build progressions of emotional reaction triggered by active endowments. As examples: A player loves his outfit, and as […]
We want to fill our blank stages with imagined environment. We want to engage physically in that environment to help visualize the imagined. And - most importantly - we want to be emotionally affected by where we are and what we're doing. That's Improv As Improv Does Best. Our fellow player(s) and how they emotionally […]
Feeling about active endowments. That's Improv As Improv Does Best. It ain't easy. That balance between making up imagined details and committing to feeling about imagined details is tough to manage. Already we're trying to see our world's details instead of thinking up details, but we also have to care about those details in-the-moment. Like […]
Acting. Webster's defines it as: the art or practice of representing a character on a stage or before cameras. Fine. You're acting when you're pretending to be someone else. Then what's "good acting"? Representing that character better. What's "bad acting"? Representing that character worse. How does that relate to improv where the character only exists […]