Spring Semester Week 1

Welcome Back Cuesta Improv!


Wednesday, 1/20 1:00 Meeting # 20
Attendance: 4

• Thought Diagrams
• association
• stay in the same scene
• have a central topic
• you may go "back" to an earlier place\idea however you may not restart from that place

• In a Scene
• pantomiming is good
• continuity is essential

• Upcoming events
• club carnival 2\2 11am-1:30pm

Meeting adjourned at 2:50

Improv Spring Semester

Hello everyone!

Improv will be held in the following places and times this Spring Semester.

Mondays
1:30pm-2:30pm
Student Center Courtyard

Wednesdays
1pm-2:30pm
Room 5305

Week 11

Tuesday, 12/8 12:30
Meeting # 19
Attendance: 8

• Warm-ups
• stretches
• tongue twisters
• Games
• Liar, Liar
• Questions Only
• Singing
• PLPR

Meeting adjourned at 2:00

Thursday, 12/10 3:45
Meeting # 20

Attendance: 6

Meeting Objective: sound effects/vocal expression

• Warm-ups 
• Sound effects
• rain
• bus
• "ptk"

• Games
• Channel Surfing

• Upcoming Events
• Pasta Party Dec. 17

Meeting adjourned at 4:45

Week 10

Tuesday, 12/1 12:30
Meeting # 17
Attendance: 6

Meeting Objective: objective-obstacle

• Warm-ups
• stretches
• Color Your Words
• Pokémon Tennis (don't ask) 
• directed poetry reading
• Games
• Scenes/lines (fortunes)
• Scenes in 3 Ways

Meeting adjourned at 2:00

Thursday, 12/3 3:30
Meeting # 18
Attendance: 5

Meeting Objective: scene building

• Planning Events
• Radio: say something nice
• Tips & Tricks (pg. 90)
• Energy
• Body Language/"Body Character"
• lead with a part
• Vocal Choices
• Keep Talking (solo)
• TMATTY (pg. 99)
• Listen to Each Other
• Elements of a Scene/Games
• Initial Situation
• freeze'n'go (pg. 94)
• Complications and Suspense
• If I Had it My Way (pg. 107)
• Conclusion
• Exposition Scene (pg. 110) 
• Review of Games
• Cooperation vs. Combat

Meeting adjourned at 4:30

Week 9

Tuesday, 11/17 12:30
Meeting # 15
Attendance: 5

Meeting Objective: (stage) confidence/presence

• Upcoming Events/Planning
• 11/23 Home Away from Home Event
• Lip Sync Battles
• Austin Powers Movie Night
• Poetry Slam in the CPAC Courtyard
• Games
• Internal Monologue
• How it Really Went
• Questions Only
• Review of Games
• Internal Monologue: 
• shorter monologues
•  line action (get line from audience when stuck)
• Group Trust
• share an interesting fact or story about yourself

Meeting adjourned at 2:14

Thursday, 11/19 3:30
Meeting # 16
Attendance: 6

Meeting Objective: energy & suspense

• Short Lesson Time
• vocab/terms
• visiblity
• Warm-ups
• tongue twisters (pg.65/66)
• color your nursery rhyme
• greeting by numbers
• Games
• Telling a Story and Acting it Out

Meeting adjourned at 4:54

Week 8, Part 2

Thursday, 11/12 3:30
Meeting # 14
Attendance: 6

Meeting Objective: body language, competition

• Upcoming Events
• ASCC Barn Dance 11/18
• ASCC Bowling Night 12/2
• Games
• Pan Left, Pan Right
• World's Worst
• Charades
• Review of Games
• PLPR: 
• better starting points
• don't say no so much

Meeting adjourned at 4:31