Week 8, Part 1

Tuesday, 11/10 12:00
Meeting # 13
Attendance: 7

• Philosophy of Improv:
• compare philosophies, let the audience decide for themselves which side they're on
• words are the least important part of communication
• Stage presence is simply the confidence to be where you are
• the characters have always existed...
• they'll rememver the moment for the rest of their lives...
• allow yourself to make mistakes
• Games
• Whisper Challenge
• Pan Left, Pan Right
• Questions Only
• Jeopardy
• Story Story Die
• Dating Game
• Review of Games
• WC: 
• read strangers' lips?
• gibberish and acronyms are great
• PLPR: work on finding the end
• Jeopardy: We tried to invent this today. It needs work. There's definitely potential here, but I'll be on the lookout for a more organized version.

Meeting adjourned at 1:56

Week 7, Part 2

Thursday, 11/5 3:30
Meeting #12
Attendance: 5

• Games
• Hot Potato (in which we each say a word, creating a sentence, eventually creating a story)
• Whisper Challenge (it's like Telephone, but reading lips instead of listening)
• Review of Games
• HP: too many connecting words --> mishear/"auto-correct" connecting words to something more interesting
• WC: bring headphones with music so they can whisper, or learn to just mouth without making sounds

Meeting adjourned at 4:47

Week 7, part 1

Tuesday, 11/3 12:00
Meeting #11
Attendance: 7

• Philosophy of Improv (paraphrased from a blog I found), Part I
• every scene has a soundtrack (rhythm/pace/emotion)
• Always know Who and Where you are for every scene
• "earn wit every day" aka take in experiences, learn, watch good comedians and things that inspire you. That's what you have to work from, it'll be on the top of your head for you to draw from.
• Know your Character = their choices and opinions, aka have a sense of how they will react to the environment and other characters. It'll make it easier on you.
• When in doubt, talk about philosophy
• don't play it safe, don't be afraid to make mistakes discoveries
• the Moment is the goal, so go be in the Moment
• have a plot, but you don't need to discuss it (better known as show, don't tell)
• have faith in the scene (not control over it)
• learn from improv sessions (skills, new discoveries, perhaps about yourself?)
• Games
• Yes, And...
• Questions
• Dating Game
• Pan Left, Pan Right (finally!)
• Review of Games
• Yes, And: change the subject more, get more abstract/off topic
• Q's: keep it short, add characters? vary questions/question types more
• have it be part of a scene
• we should create a scene generator
• Dating Game: went well; don't choose your own character (too obvious)
• choose characters/quirks out of a hat?
• (afterthought: don't say the answer when you have it, let the others figure it out)
• PLPR: was confusing.
• learn Left from Right (all of us)
• guidelines for starting scenes = location, characters, first line

Meeting adjourned at 1:57

Week 6

Tuesday, 10/27 12:00
Meeting #9
Attendance: 6
"The goal is always to make puns." - Emma Henson

• Meet Advisor, Wendy Wagoner
• brainstorming for a Christmas event - impromptu yoga?
• Warm-Up Games
• Goalie
• Sandwiches (In which we finish each other's sandwiches sentences.)
• Plotting with David
• Make dumpster diving socially acceptable?
• why?
• save money
• reduce, reuse, recycle
• people actually throw out a lot of good stuff
• research laws
• it's banned in Atascadero
• not allowed to take recyclables from recycle bins
• reenact a movie: ideas:
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Monty Python (any)
• Shia LaBeouf's "Just Do It" - in front of the library?
• Austin Powers with Harrison as Austin
• Lady Gaga music video

Rachel Challenges Emma to a Lip Sync Battle

• Games
• Back in My Day aka Puns Galore
• Questions

Meeting adjourned at 1:55

Thursday, 10/29
Meeting #10

Attendance: 2 + Emma

I was out sick, but I hear there were two people there and they played Back in My Day and disbanded after about an hour. Emma stopped by for a few minutes between classes.

Week 5

Tuesday, 10/20
Fall Fest, no meeting

Thursday, 10/22, 3:30

Meeting # 8

Attendance: 7

• Warm-Up Games
• Goalie
• What are you Doing?
• Games
• Choose a Character (This was more of an exercise in being a character.)
• Song Lyrics/Titles/Bands
• Not My Arms (In which someone else plays the player's arms.)
• Events
• Austin Powers Movie Afternoon - I'll make an online poll to figure out which week is best for all of us
• Lip Sync Battle - Strong vs Tony should be an interesting battle.
• make a list of clean songs
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Thursday 10/29 Fremont Theater 8pm
• Friday 10/30 Downtown Center Cinema 10:45pm
• Learn the Time Warp
• This actually happened near the beginning of the meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 4:55

Week 4

Tuesday, 10/13:
Flex Day, no meeting

Thursday, 10/15, 3:30
Meeting #7
Attendance: 7 + Joe Vasta

• Upcoming Events:
• Rocky Horror Picture Show @ SLO Fremont 10/31
• time is yet to be confirmed
• this is not a club event, it is simply happening in the community
• ASCC Fall Fest Tuesday 10/20
• no meeting this Tuesday, there will be games going on in the courtyard
• everyone is welcome to Fall Fest
• ASCC Bowling Night 11/2
• 30 spots available; first come, first served
• they will tell us when they're accepting people to go
• ASCC Barn Dance 11/18
• that's a Wednesday
• Austin Powers Movie Night Afternoon
• on a Tuesday at 3:30-5
• TBA on which Tuesday, meaning it's at least 3 weeks out
• Games
• Press Conference
• Freeze Tag
• Goalie

Meeting adjourned at 4:55

Week 3, Part 2

Thursday, 10/8, 3:30
Meeting #6
Attendance: 9 + Dr. G

• Make cape
• Elections
• Rap Battle
• Drill Sergeant
• Speeches
• Positions being run for:
• Alex M. for Vice President (yes 5/5)
• David H. for Secretary (yes 5/5)
• Emma H. for Treasurer (absent)
• Harrison D. for Speaker (yes 5/5)
• Dr. G for His Life
• Resignation of current Vice President Michael C.
• Congratulate newly elected officers

Meeting adjourned at 4:56

Club Advisor Appreciation Post

My lovely people,

Surely many of us are unfamiliar with Improv Club's Club Advisor ("We have a Club Advisor?!"), so here's a bit of information I thought might interest you:

Our Club Advisor is Wendy Wagoner, and she teaches Broadcast Performance (read: voice acting) here at Cuesta. It is an online class, BCST 227, and she takes her students through many exercises and scripts to build skills, confidence, and also to produce voice overs to be proud of. She is very dedicated to her students and the course.

As a part of the course, she runs an online radio station (read: opportunity to get on the air)! She also has connections at KGUR, our Cuesta radio station, so there's plenty of opportunity to reach the public once we get some material "on tape."

In addition, we will stop by the reprographics department and meet this wonderful Advisor of ours next Tuesday (10/27), so we can all get acquainted.

That's all for now, folks!

Week 3, Part 1

Tuesday, 10/6:

Meeting #5
Meeting started at 12:00
Total attendance: 7

• Elections sign-up sheet passed around (Note! Elections will be held this Thursday)
• Games:
• What do you want to be arrested for?
• Origin Story
• Questions Only
• Foreign Film
• Review of Games:
• Questions Only (all in): don't gang up on Harrison
• Origin Story: less gore (I was not present for this bit, for the record)
• Upcoming Events:
• Rocky Horror Picture Show @ SLO Fremont 10/30 (unofficial)
• Learn the Time Warp
• Vocab Lesson:
• "cut o' yer jib"
• context: "I like the cut o' yer jib."
• meaning (in context): "You look good."

Meeting adjourned at 1:55

Week 2

Week 2 is complete, and here's the recap of the meetings:

Tuesday, 9/29:

Meeting #3

Meeting started at 11:56

Total attendance: 11  + Dan

1. Dan dropped by to tell Sal that Paul Horner was on campus. We then discussed water polo. Dan came back to ask if we'd seen Paul Horner. (He was improvising, Paul Horner was not, in fact, on campus.)
2. Emma and Joaquin arrived, and we got down to business.

• Elections sign-up sheet passed around
• Revisit logo ideas
• Games: Foreign film
• Event ideas
• Report from Collin Fitz-Gerald (President of Sobriety Success, another club on campus):
• fundraiser ideas

Meeting adjourned at 1:54

Thursday, 10/1:

Meeting #4

Meeting started at 3:30

Total attendance: 7

• Election sign-up sheet passed around
• Event ideas
• Games: Scare Off the Bench (Alex M. wins), Questions Only, Party Quirks, Freeze Tag
• Review of games:
• Questions Only: not restate the question, stay relevant to the previous question. Paraphrased: "Make it less like politics."
• Freeze Tag: change the scene more often
• Explain game: Pan Left, Pan Right

Meeting adjourned at 4:55

Week 1

Two meetings occurred this week in Improv Club. Here's the bare-bones recap:

Tuesday, 9/22 12pm:

Total attendance: 7

• pass around the officer sign-up sheet
• collect event ideas
• games:
• Origin Myth
• What are You Doing
• Back In My Day

Thursday, 3:30pm:

Total attendance: 6

• games:
• Yes, And
• Skeeba (On Tour)
• Blind Date
• Back In My Day

Elections will most likely be on a Thursday.

Looking forward to seeing you all next week!

Welcome to Reality

We're a real club now! Isn't it exciting?!

We're meeting Tuesday at 12 in the courtyard by the bookstore, but we'll move once we've taken care of the business side of the meeting, since we're not authorized to use the space yet.

Same drill Thursday at 3:30.

Bring event ideas, we'll get them right into the planning process.

We also have offices to fill. If you haven't read over the election procedure in our Club Constitution, I highly recommend it.

We'll have a sign-up sheet for anyone interested in the offices, and the election will be held at a later date depending on who can make which meeting time.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Club Day Recap

Club Day was a success for Improv Club!

We played Back in My Day, Actor's Nightmare, and a little game I like to call Long Time No See, in which we would pick a stranger, pick a name for them, and greet them loudly by said name from across the room as if we'd known them for years. Once we let the confusion sink in, we'd drop the punchline: "Join Improv Club!"

We have plenty of names, email addresses, and phone numbers to help get the word out, and we'll just have to look and see who shows up to the meetings!

That's all for now, folks!

Reference Post!

For quick reference, I'm posting a link to Fool Disclosure Improv's encyclopedia of improv games.

Come to Club Day today, we might end up playing some of these!

http://fooldisclosure.webs.com/improvgamelist.htm

That's all for now, folks!

Edit

Please note the edit in the previous post: 3:30ish on Thursdays.

Thanks!

Welcome!

Welcome to Cuesta Improv Club!

Upcoming events:

• Club Day/Student Success Festival is this Tuesday September 15th, 11-1 in the courtyard and room 5401 (next to the cafeteria).

• Thursday, September 17, at 10:30 begins the ASCC Senate Meeting (open to the public) in which we will become an official club if we bribed enough of the Senators.

• Regular meetings are Tuesdays (except the 15th, see above), 12ish and Thursdays, 3:30ish, location TBA. Meetings are at both times for these first few weeks of "clubdom;" this will probably change. We'll keep you updated.

Here's our Club Constitution.

Do you have ideas for improv games? Leave a comment, and we'll look into it!

That's all for now, folks!