Improvisation 2

First thing we did today was warm up with Brandon. As almost every morning we stood up in a circle and warmed up our face by keeping it very tight and opening very wide(as much as we can). Also not forgetting body warm up when one person shows any movement and everyone else has to repeat it.

"Deleted scenes game". Our task was to devise couple of scenes which has been deleted from a well known movie. I was in a group with Jennifer and Brandon and we chosen Titanic as everyone knows it. It was very hard to think of something as we didn`t have much ideas but remaining few last seconds we decided to do the bit where Rose is holding Jack`s hands not letting him drawn. I was a cameraman. So I shouted "cut!!" for couple of times as I didnt have much to say. We`ve chosen the movie we all know very well so we already had location and timing as set in film. I think we played this game in order to apply and develop our ideas to already given idea which was challenging as there were too many scenes we can choose and we only need one or two. We was thinking of changing the movie to Bad Neighbors because we thought that we need to add some normal scenes but while watching others` we decided to do some Titanic bloopers.

"One person story, played with different genres." Second task was to devise a short piece of how one of our group member woke up and went to college today. As we were in the same groups as before we decided that we can work on Brandon`s morning as mine`s and Jennifer`s wasnt that interesting. So Jennifer was playing Cashe as Brandon called him in the morning to ask if he`s coming in college whilst I pretended to be Romaine which didn`t pick up the phone when Brandon called him. When Brandon was on the phone speaking with Jennifer(Cashe) genre changed from normal to sci fi and from sci fi to Shakespearean. When the story switched to Romaine(me) on the train as stranger (Jennifer) bumped into me and I got into argument trying to say things Romaine would say which made audience laugh. Next scene was Brandon taking train and me and Jennifer staring at him. When genre switched to romantic comedy I stood up on the left side, Jennifer on the right and Brandon was in the middle. Playing different genres made us add more conversational and slightly change it. For me it was more fun than playing just a normal version of it as it added more humor to it.

Scripted scenes. I was in pair with Ryan and we decided to do scene 1 which was quite easy to devise because there weren`t any subject we were talking about. I came up with idea Ryan saying "Nothing I just... just stole 2 millions.." I tried to play use "magic if" which didnt really helped me because I couldnt focus. However, we didnt show our piece as it wasnt enough time left.