Creative Ideas Workshop 03/10/11

Creative Ideas Workshop (with Improv)

Monday 3^rd October 2011

A quick write up on how Monday’s Workshop went. Before I begin I just want to say it was a brilliant night and everyone who came was brilliant, a huge array of ideas were created and many, many more jokes. I had a great time and am keen to do some more improv in the future, please let me know if you’re keen to take part in more.. perhaps one day we can make an improve film? Anyway to the report:

Present:

Joe Christie

Peter Keay

Craig Me Eu

Cara McDiarmid

Katya Moncrieff

Mathew Nicolson

Marjolein Robertson

Rachel Samson

Ceidiog Saxelby

Chloe Warner

The aim of this week’s workshop was to come up with ideas for a new film through the power of our minds (and some mindless improv games)

Introduction: After a quick ‘Hello’ to everyone and ‘Cheerio’ to Katya (she had parent’s evening) and a ‘Congratulations!’ to Joe on his nomination we got down to business.

Game 1: Deaf Translator

Rules of the game: An interviewer and a Professor discuss the Professor’s recent work training *insert animal here* to play *insert sport here* whilst a third person has to ‘sign’ all the words for the audience’s benefit.

 Ideas from the game:

Breakdancing turtles (check with RSPCA)
Professor Lickingbottom (Should there be a hyphen?!)

-“Don’t insult my heritage!”

Game 2: Squeeze the Duck (if we could afford a duck)

Rules of the game: 2 people are given characters, a scene and a situation, whenever a third person (watching) squeezes the duck (makes quacking sound) the last person who spoke must say a different line in place of the previous one. Example:
“Stop eating the cheese!” Quack “Eat all the cheese” Oh the hilarity

Ideas from this game:

Mayoral debate

Monkeys in the fishpond

(Somewhere around now we played the Was That A Question?! Game and it was really hard, really really hard, but I’ve been watching ‘Who’s line is it anyway?’ since and it’s hard for them too! I think we did it right..)

Game 4: The Film Quote Game! YEEEAH!!

Rules of the game: 2 people are chosen and sent out the room, many, many film quotes are written down on pieces of paper, which are then folded and left on the floor *ahem* stage.

2 actors return and are given a relationship, setting and scenario which they must act out and occasionally pick up a quote and work it into the sketch.

 Ideas from this game:
Three friends in a pub fighting over a girl

“And then she said… they’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard!”

Brother and clothes stealing sister (roles reversed? Girl plays brother and vice versa) “And it said on the t-shirt..”

Game 5: Emotional Rollercoaster

Rules of the game: 3 actors with characters, scene and scenario, (say three astronauts dancing on the moon discussing Harry Potter.. it happened) they act out a quick sketch. Afterwards they are each given an emotion, any emotion, and have to act the scene again portraying their given emotion. Works very well when you up the emotions for a second time… just think CALLIGOPH!

 Ideas from this game:

Ceidiog, the activist for Narnian rights

Matthew the drag queen

Rachel the short-sighted, under-pressure woman

Peter the loved up scientist

Calligoph (gopher calligraphy)

Game 6: The Director’s Cut

Every bit like Emotional Rollercoaster but this time it’s not just the emotions you play with, no! it’s everything, from film genre to taking away people’s limbs. It’s great fun and gave us a heap of ideas:

 And the ideas were:

Silent film

Man who is afraid of fruit (for instance: melons)

Transsexual, no brain = hilarious death

PUBLIC INDECENCY: The Musical

Claustrophobic girl in a submarine on the bottom of the sea

Psycopathic drag queen (wait, which one was this?)

Ceidiog’s Italian nudist

Musical wedding sabotage leading to nudity and “Prison Break”

So yes, we came of with heaps and heaps of ideas which I am going to attempt to write all into one film (under 5 minutes long) come along to the meeting next Monday to hear about the film story so far.

To summarise; it was a very successful evening, incredibly enjoyable and hilarious. Everyone came up with great ideas and I cannot wait to start writing the film!