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Improv
Offer/Strong Offer
Vocab
Short Answer
Random Questions
100

What is the 1st Benefit of Improv?

  1. There is no benefit to improv

  2. Helps get better at reaction and response

  3. We only do improv sometimes

  4. What’s improv?

  • Helps get better at reaction and response

100

Which is the STRONG OFFER example of: “What’s that?”

  1. Why did you choose to wear a neon pink onesie to this wedding?

  2. What do you have?

  3. Are you busy?

  4. Do you have something for me?

  • Why did you choose to wear a neon pink onesie to this wedding?

100

Define IMPROV

  1. Creating stories from scratch, together.  Actions and words that are not planned ahead.  Make them up as you go!

  2. Scripted story telling

  3. Minimally planned story telling

  4. Fully rehearsed story telling

  1. Creating stories from scratch, together.  Actions and words that are not planned ahead.  Make them up as you go!

100

  1. Create a STRONG OFFER example of: “Where are we

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

?

100

Define Projection

  1. Speaking very quietly

  2. Using strong voice clarity and an open body to make a performance easily accessible to an audience.

  3. Speaking in a whisper

  4. Screaming

  1. Using strong voice clarity and an open body to make a performance easily accessible to an audience.

200

What is the 2nd Benefit of Improv?

  1. Helps to stay quiet

  2. Builds confidence

  3. Lets us be shy

  4. Get better at chatting with friends

  • Builds confidence

200

Define Strong Offer

  1. Using vocal clarity

  2. Spending a long time thinking about your answer

  3. Responding very quickly

  4. Information your scene partner can easily build on.  Help your partner, do not make them do all the thinking

  1. Information your scene partner can easily build on.  Help your partner, do not make them do all the thinking

200

Define Offer

  1. Creating stories from scratch

  2. Ideas that we add to an exercise, game, or scene.  Accept ideas, SAY YES, add your own ideas to move a story forward.

  3. Letting your partner do all of the work

  4. Letting stories stand still

Ideas that we add to an exercise, game, or scene.  Accept ideas, SAY YES, add your own ideas to move a story forward.

200

Weak Offer: Who are you?  

Strong Offer: What are you doing here, Mr. President?      

  1. What is one difference between these offers? 

  2. What makes the strong offer stronger?

1?

2?

200

Define Quick Thinking

  1. Using strong vocal clarity

  2. Spending a lot of time thinking about your answers

  3. Responding quickly and saying the first thing that comes to mind to move a scene/game forward

  4. Spending HOURS thinking about your answers

  1. Responding quickly and saying the first thing that comes to mind to move a scene/game forward

300

What is the 3rd Benefit of Improv?

  1. Getting comfortable working solo

  2. Improve individual work

  3. Improve duo work

  4. Improve team work

  • Getting comfortable working solo

300

What is the STRONG OFFER example of: “Where are we?”

  1. Why are we here?

  2. Do you know where we are?

  3. How did we end up in this quicksand?

  4. Who are you?

  1. How did we end up in this quicksand?

300

Define Diaphragm

  1. Ideas we add to exercises, games, or scenes

  2. Where air enters the body to breathe

  3. Creating stories from scratch

  4. The large, flat muscle that separates the lungs from the stomach area and plays a major role in breathing

  1. The large, flat muscle that separates the lungs from the stomach area and plays a major role in breathing

300

  1. What are the two Unit 2 Key Terms?

1?

2?

300

If you need to speak loudly and with breath support, you need to engage your ______________.

  1. Chest

  2. Diaphragm

  3. Lungs

  4. Stomach

Diaphragm

400

What tool can you use to move an IMPROV scene forward?

  1. Yes, and…

  2. Stop the scene

  3. Give a weak offer

  4. Stand on stage silently

Yes, and...

400

Which is the STRONG OFFER example of: “Who are you?

  1. Why are you here?

  2. Where are we?

  3. Do I know you?

  4. What are you doing here, Madam President?

  1. What are you doing here, Madam President?

400

Define Ennunciation

  1. Ideas we add to exercises, games, or scenes

  2. Where air enters the body to breathe

  3. SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY articulating speech to be easily understood

  4. The large, flat muscle that separates the lungs from the stomach area and plays a major role in breathing

  1. SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY articulating speech to be easily understood

400

  1. BONUS QUESTION: What has been your favorite IMPROV game we have played in class so far? Why?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

?

400

If Ms.G asks you to speak loud enough for the whole class to hear you, you need to _______________.

  1. Whisper

  2. Use your talking voice

  3. Project

  4. Yell

Project

500

UNIT 1 REVIEW: Define FEEDBACK

  1. A figure represented by an actor in a play

  2. A building or outdoor area where performances are given

  3. Sharing specific observations clear suggestions to encourage improvement after viewing a performance

  4. Audience seating area or by extension the audience itself

  • Sharing specific observations clear suggestions to encourage improvement after viewing a performance

500

When creating a STRONG OFFER you should include what?

  1. A question to move the scene forward

  2. Specifics to the scene

  3. Details so your partner knows exactly what is going on

  4. All of the above

All of the above

500

Define Objective

  1. What kind of person the character your playing is

  2. Where air enters the body to breathe

  3. Creating stories from scratch

  4. What a character wants in a scene.  What a character is fighting for

  1. What a character wants in a scene.  What a character is fighting for

500

UNIT 1 REVIEW: Define ENSEMBLE

1. A designated area where actors perform for an audience

2. Sharing specific observations and clear suggestions to encourage improvement

3. The audience seating area or the audience itself

4. The group before the individual; a team that has each other’s back completely


The group before the individual; a team that has each other’s back completely

500

If you are asked to speak clearer, you need to ______________ better.

  1. Slow down

  2. Ennunciate

  3. Talk louder

  4. Ask a friend to talk for you

Ennunciate