When you read the title of this article you are probably wondering how is this relevant to Improv well actually it is a lot closer then you think. From time to time at work I have to work alongside a Director who is a stand up comedian in […]
The other day I was just checking my social media feeds before I went to bed and I went onto the Instagram stories just to be nosy at what people were posting and stumbled across a live feed by actor Zachary Levi (Chuck, Thor: The Dark World, Tangled) […]
Yes you read that correctly above – you can use dance moves to create warm up games to get used to making scenes. This was a technique that I was taught by Shem part of C3? and it is something that makes scene work very different and lots […]
Numbers are good fun – especially in improv. You can use them to create some really fun mini warm up exercises to get used to talking in scenes or limiting what you say in them. The first way in which you can bring numbers to a warm up […]
If there is one thing that is important in improv – especially in short form improv, then it is the use of emotion. With any sort of improv, you have a very short moment to make a story strong and intriguing for the audience and the use of […]
One of the hardest things to do in improv is not to break character and laugh in the middle of a scene. Sometimes you are put into a scene where you are being something so silly that it is really hard to not laugh – but if you […]
Sometimes when you do improv, especially long form, we focus on building up the narrative, painting a picture, creating an environment bot you and the audience can enjoy. In short form, you have only on average 2 minutes to create an environment and really try and reel the […]
Sometimes in a show, you can be presented with bad suggestions from the audience – if you are lucky enough, you will get more then one suggestion so that you can do a scene with the one that sounds better or you feel is a better option, however, […]
One of the main traps that people fall into when doing Short Form is that every single part of a scene needs-to-have-lots-and-lots-or-talking-and-there-is-no-gap-to-breath-so-the-audience-have-to-focus-on-everything-that-is-being-said-and-it’s-so-much-to-take-in-that-it can-feel-very-clogged-up-and-everything-in-between – OK!! I think you get the point. Sometimes in scenes we can all talk too much. It is so easy to do, especially because […]
There is a saying in improv that if you put a bunch of improvisers in a car then they are not going to go anywhere – and this can happen in scenes. What this means to people who do not improvise is that sometimes when you do a […]
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