A Start of Improv And An End of Jabberwock
Today's class was kickstarted with a quick improv activity. We were to just throw ourselves in and improv a scene, in order to develop our setting conveying skills. When Andrew threw himself into the ring, I saw an opportunity to modify Andrew's apparent decision to be jumping out of a car into the near death of my child. This would allow the opportunity for more people to join the improv, all the way to Tau and Moki as the cops. Though I was hesitant at first, I realized that the best way to improv is to come in with a predefined idea, especially about the setting, and then everything is fine. If all goes wrong, it is easy to come back to a piece of your original idea or to develop on someone else's idea. After this short session, we spent the rest of the class preparing our plays. We drastically changed everything as something had to be done about Moki's (the father's) weird motives and our literal setting. With the help of Mr. Mouck, we decided to change the setting to a school, and make all of us students apart form Moki the father and Omar the vorpal sword. Moki would be picking up his son, and catch him whistling at a girl. This is when he would scold him, (and we aren't sure about his part yet) but he would somehow have to confront the girl again. Sine we then realized that the vorpal sword could not kill the girl (as she would just be awkwardly lying there) we decided Lorenzo would scare her off, persuaded by the new conscience. Mr. Mouck then said we could not use props, so we improvised and picked me dropping my earring (imaginary earring) as a substitute to the flower dropping. I remember feeling good after that rehearsal, as things were finally starting to make sense and our play was actually developing. Despite the fact that Sarah will not be performing with us, we have worked out how things will be, and our play is almost ready. Now, time for finishing touches...
Today's class was kickstarted with a quick improv activity. We were to just throw ourselves in and improv a scene, in order to develop our setting conveying skills. When Andrew threw himself into the ring, I saw an opportunity to modify Andrew's apparent decision to be jumping out of a car into the near death of my child. This would allow the opportunity for more people to join the improv, all the way to Tau and Moki as the cops. Though I was hesitant at first, I realized that the best way to improv is to come in with a predefined idea, especially about the setting, and then everything is fine. If all goes wrong, it is easy to come back to a piece of your original idea or to develop on someone else's idea. After this short session, we spent the rest of the class preparing our plays. We drastically changed everything as something had to be done about Moki's (the father's) weird motives and our literal setting. With the help of Mr. Mouck, we decided to change the setting to a school, and make all of us students apart form Moki the father and Omar the vorpal sword. Moki would be picking up his son, and catch him whistling at a girl. This is when he would scold him, (and we aren't sure about his part yet) but he would somehow have to confront the girl again. Sine we then realized that the vorpal sword could not kill the girl (as she would just be awkwardly lying there) we decided Lorenzo would scare her off, persuaded by the new conscience. Mr. Mouck then said we could not use props, so we improvised and picked me dropping my earring (imaginary earring) as a substitute to the flower dropping. I remember feeling good after that rehearsal, as things were finally starting to make sense and our play was actually developing. Despite the fact that Sarah will not be performing with us, we have worked out how things will be, and our play is almost ready. Now, time for finishing touches...
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