2. Read Pages
7-10
in the text

3. Remember:
Play Reports

4. Improvisation Imagination is the key Improv Impromptu Extemporaneous
A.K.A.
Improv
Impromptu
Extemporaneous
No script or planning
Imagination is the key

5. Spontaneity Boring!!!!! Freshness Crispness “The illusion of the
first time”
If not spontaneous,
what happens to
your show?
Boring!!!!!

6. Scene Stealing Story time AKA Hamming (over-acting)
Purposefully (or even without thinking) taking attention
away from the focus of the
scene
Story time
As an actor, you must understand where the focus of each scene is supposed to be, and help draw the audience’s attention towards it, not towards yourself.

7. Character-Centered Stories
A chronological look at the lives of one or more characters and the situations they go through.
Anything on-going (sequels, soap operas, reality shows, etc.) or continuous.

8. Situation-Centered Stories
A look at the way the same event/ situation is approached differently by the different personalities of the characters.
There is not necessarily a connection to the previous episode. (sit-coms)

9. How your voice works
It’s all about air. More sound volume requires more air.

10. Vocal
Warm-ups

11. Combine all this into an activity
Groups of 2 or 3
Together, think of a situation (appropriate)
Each person plays a character with a different personality
Come up with a story (beginning, middle and end) where each of your characters reacts differently to the same situation
Think about spontaneity and where the focus of the scene should be
Remember articulation and projection
Rehearse and then perform