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Instructor: Jeff Wirth

 
 
 

 

Movie Analysis for Improv Templates
  Summary This workshop invites advanced improvisors to watch scenes from their favorite movies and then challenges them to discover the underlying structures that make the scene work. Players are taught how to distill favorite scenes and dialogue into structural templates and then put the templates to work in applied improvised scene work. Movie-form templates restock the improvisor's toolbox and teach the improvisor how to tap an under-utilized source of inspiration for improvised scene work.
  Syllabus
Viewing the model

Watch chosen scenes from participants' film of choice

Analyzing film scenes

Identifying what makes the dialogue / action work
Distilling into templates

Implementing the templates - scene work

Application of templates in improvised scenes
Refinement of template structures

  Prerequisite Basic Improvisation
  Classes 2-hour workshop
Half-day workshop
Two-day workshop at 4 hours per day
  Students Professional improvisors and troupes
College and University improv troupes
Playwrights
 
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800-964-1905
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3/15/01