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any tips on how to improve your improv or improvisation skills? thats what i really need, cuz our leader makes us do that and im not good at acting without scripts
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Okay, I'm in theatre 1, and were working on pantomime, improv, and voice, infact we had a quiz on it today. Have you ever seen the Drew Carey show "Who's Line is it Anyways" if not you need to watch it. You need focus, and imagination, yet stay on topic. The question game is what we play in class, and the party game, those are our classes favorites. Concentrate on what to say, and before it's your turn, think of things that you could say.
Just think of the situation, and pretend it's real. But don't use the same character each time. Once your out, and it's your turn again, come up with a different character. One from a different country, a different state, Be a redneck, or a yankey, or a yank. Have fun with the role that you are given, and don't really think about it. This is what we are told to do, we are told to make up a life for the character, whats it's name, where was he/she from, siblings?, hobbies, best friend, and all that, it makes it easier to become this person. Good luck
There's this one site, it's www.improveverywhere.com It's a group that does improv stuff for a hobbie, they don't get paid, but there are pictures and descriptions on the site. My theatre teacher gave the site to me.
If you need anything else, let me know!
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Don't think about it, just go with whatever comes to you! If you think about it you'll have a harder time going on with the scene. I do improvisation everyday in Drama and I just go with whatever comes to me. You have to try to change your character, don't always be your self. Try to chang your voice, loudness, pitch, accent... stuff like that. Today I had to pretend I was a type of Julia Roberts in pretty woman walking into a store and they had to tell me to leave because they didn't think I was good enough but I had to know that I was actually rich. So what I did was changed my voice, my body movements and facial expressoins which gives you an appearance of a totaly different person. Hope this helped.
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Improv in general comes from having a good "vocabulary"... and by this, I don't mean knowing lots of words, but knowing lots of situations and typical things said. Improv in acting is much like improv in music - you must be aware of the action around you, and you find a way to fit your part in, making it up as you go, possibly quoting other things in a way to reference (pay homage) to the original, but making it your own.<br>
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Really, the best way to learn improv is to watch and listen to lots of influences - in your case, watch movies, read books, see plays, etc... and then, once you've done that, it is all about practicing. Improvisation is not an instant thing - it takes lots and lots of work - to get better, practice a lot.<br>
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Get some friends together who also act and try doing random improv situations - write down differnt scenarios on pieces of paper, throw them into a hat, and pull them out at random, with people pairing up having to act out the scenes. Then have the others who are watching give feedback afterwards - that way everyone can learn improv together and learn how to respond and act with each other spontaneously.
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