System: Mirage (the rules are very simple, it won't take longer than 20-30 minutes to prepare for the game).
Platform: Discord Voice Chat.
Time: We start in 4 hours (8PM BST), we'll be aiming for a 2 hour session, but sometimes they go a bit longer.
Players: Looking for 2-3 players.
Format: Roleplay-focused one-shot. Genre - comedy/horror.
Hi! I'm working on a new one-shot adventure, and today I want to playtest it for the first time. It will be a lighthearted improv/storytelling/roleplay focused game, with a few elements of horror.
If that sounds like fun - send me a message (lumen#7925 on discord), learn how to play, and create your character.
So like is a portion of comedy impromptu? What I mean is does stand up comedy improve one's ability to think on one's own feet and improvise?
Is there an improvisational component to stand up?
Hello!!!!!! I just got both a physical copy and audiobook version of the book. But listening to the audiobook, I haven't found any of the same text. Are they each a different version? Sorry if I'm being a moron. Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking for something similar to Hello from the Magic Tavern & Hey Riddle Riddle.
I heard a lot of people saying this is the best book for improv.But since I live in Mexico the only option of buying it is like 90 dollars on amazon.
Grey would probably find this uninteresting, but it's out of his wheelhouse. It's the foundational knowledge for improv and is widely studied. Great non-fiction about fiction.
I'm about to order one of them, what's your experience with them? I'm looking to learn the basics of improv and different techniques, so any comments and criticisms on which would suit me better (from personal experience) is appreciated!
Disclaimer: Not an actor! Just an amateur writer with an amateur interest in film. Had a curiosity and didn't know a better subreddit to ask.
I was just reading a comic and envisioning a live action adaptation. And I've had this thought before, which is that despite the dialogue being good, it's somewhat straightforward as well. And IMHO knowing the lines in advance makes it trickier, to an extent, to pull off the conversation and reactions naturally--as naturally as otherwise, at least. Of course, acting is literally to act, but immersion brings out higher potential in some (all?) actors (e.g. even though they couldn't show anything like a death star exploding in the original Star Wars, before it was edited, they drew it on paper and ripped it in half during the filming for that event--I think on Carrie Fischer's request, just to have SOMETHING that can assist her).
So my specific thought was, some lines of the back-and-forth dialogue being cut? Are there examples of where scripts do this, or is done at the director's or even the actor's request?
E.g. the script is something like:
>A: "What are you doing? You look like you're looking for something?"
>B: "I saw it on TV."
>A: "What... what'd you see?"
And give actor A the following script,
>A: "What are you doing? You look like you're looking for something?"
>B: [Line]
>A: [Respond]
Why? Well, it seems to me like this could just be one of things that can help and give people those natural "microexpressions" at best, or just helps make it easier to act well at worst.
I hope this makes sense, I'm just interested if this sort of thing happens, what examples there are, and if so, the purpose behind it. Or if it's been talked about and usually or never is a thing. Or if just anyone has a good resource that hits at these things that I can read about! But I realize this would be a one-shot thing... once you know the line, you know the line. So I don't know. Not worth it? Why not? Time, budget? Or just not a big deal in the first place?
Only other example that comes to mind is a scene in Haunting of Hill House, where at one point they didn't tell the actors when specifically something was going to happen--so that when it did at random, they appear genuinely surprised. But I think that's a bit different from my specific example of that script dialogue.
Thanks much for any input!
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> A version of this story about Armando Iannucci and "The Death of Stalin" first appeared in the Actors/Directors/Screenwriters issue of TheWrap's Oscar magazine.
> Long before Donald Trump became president, Italian-born "Veep" creator Armando Iannucci kept an eye on the news from Italy under the leadership of far-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and wanted to do a film about authoritarianism.
> "These are leaders who claim they are for democracy and rise to power through democracy, but use their power to shut down democracy," Iannucci said in an interview with TheWrap.
> The result was one of the most darkly funny films of 2018, "The Death of Stalin." In an accelerated, condensed retelling of true events, Joseph Stalin drops dead in Moscow in 1953, and his cabal of aides - Lavrentiy Beria, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev and Vyacheslav Molotov - engage in a farcical power struggle while planning their former leader's funeral.
> Also Read: 'Veep' Creator: Why He Won't Let Politicians Do Cameos, Who Should Play POTUS. "The Death of Stalin" follows Beria's fall from power thanks to the schemes of Khrushchev, who at first seems to be easily outwitted but turns out to be the most dangerous of Stalin's underlings.
> "When Trump was a candidate, there were people who said that he was despicable and there's no way he can be a leader, and now people are asking him to campaign on their behalf because he has the power. Power easily transforms opinion, and it's been going on since ancient Rome.".
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... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm sure everyone knows, but it's available for preorder and ships early next month.
http://ucbstore.com/books/the-upright-citizens-brigade-comedy-improvisation-manual
It's an amazing book.
I have a few shorts/sketches that I would like to film in the coming month. I will be in an area I’m new to and don’t know many actors. I want to pay the actors but SOME of the roles are not lead roles.. not background characters but mostly secondary characters. So I want to make it worth their time by paying them but also stay within my budget. I want them to have experience of course but they don’t need to be absolute pros. Improvisers have always been great to work with in my experience.
Where would you look to cast from?
It will be something like "Whose line is it anyway", but the people in the audience can choose the scenarios/situations.
So lets come up with funny/embarrassing ideas!!
Oh hey. I'm Bets. I'm putting a game together on Wednesday nights. The premise is there is no premise. Every game will be a one-shot (for the most part) with characters, locales, motivations and enemies made up on the spot. The eventual goal is to stream on Twitch and take suggestions from audience members, but for now, we're just playing with ourselves.
Fighting Kobolds on Mars? Searching for treasure in a Wal*Mart? Saving the mongooses from Santa? Who knows, I guess we'll find out.
I've been playing 5e for 3.5 years, and role-playing/improvising for almost 20 years.
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