Jamming in 2008

[smerlin]

Some of my students went and said they had a great time! Thanks Peter.

[hujhax]

Thanks y'all! (And thanks to the Flying Theater Machine for joining in with the mock show.)

*resumes researching more games & warm-ups*

[Roy Janik]

Thanks for stepping up, Peter! I'm sorry I missed it.

What'd you guys do? Games? Scenes? How many people were there?

[hujhax]

Thanks for stepping up, Peter! I'm sorry I missed it.

What'd you guys do? Games? Scenes? How many people were there?

We had about ten people (?) there. Lessee how much I can remember:

We started with some quick stretching.

Then we had a whole bunch of warm-up exercises, though I can't remember the order:

• "Five Things"
• "Red Ball"
• "Brain Scrambler"[1]
• "It's Tuesday", done around a circle.
• "Electric Company" (rather too much of this, in retrospect)
• The "Character Circle" exercise[2]

Then we did 3-line scene starts.

• We added "bell for every question" -- if there was a question, we rang the 'new choice' bell.
• Then we added a "name each other in the first two lines" requirement.
• Then we added an "emotional noise before each line" requirement.

Then I put us on break about ten minutes too early (D'oh!), which led to us taking a 20 minute break before the FTM got done with the theater.

Lessee... for the fake show, we had --

• Category, Die
• Good/Bad/Worst Advice
• Scene in Reverse (the variation where the director arbitrarily moves the scene forward or backwards)
• Pan Left/Pan Right [Mike hopped in at this point to direct]
• Genre Replay
• The Alphabet Game (with 'New Choice' added in)
• Death-in-a-Minute
• Montage (scenes with wipes, about seven minutes) [Spaz ran this bit]
• Line Games: "One-Night Stand" and "The Blue Micetro Finisher" [back to Mike]
• Words of Wisdom

[1] ... or that's what Spaz calls it; the one where you circle up and name objects in a category in some arbitrary order, and then get several such chains going simultaneously. We stopped at two chains.

[2] No idea what this is called. One person gets into the circle; everyone else tells the center person something about his/her character. After a while, the outer folks start asking the character questions, until the central person gets tired of it and trades out with somebody else.

[Spaztique]

[*] "Brain Scrambler"[1]
[1] ... or that's what Spaz calls it; the one where you circle up and name objects in a category in some arbitrary order, and then get several such chains going simultaneously. We stopped at two chains.

Brain Scrub. It's also what Wes calls it.

[bradisntclever]

Thanks for stepping up, Peter! I'm sorry I missed it.

What'd you guys do? Games? Scenes? How many people were there?

We had about ten people (?) there. Lessee how much I can remember:

We started with some quick stretching.

Then we had a whole bunch of warm-up exercises, though I can't remember the order:

• "Five Things"
• "Red Ball"
• "Brain Scrambler"[1]
• "It's Tuesday", done around a circle.
• "Electric Company" (rather too much of this, in retrospect)
• The "Character Circle" exercise[2]

Then we did 3-line scene starts.

• We added "bell for every question" -- if there was a question, we rang the 'new choice' bell.
• Then we added a "name each other in the first two lines" requirement.
• Then we added an "emotional noise before each line" requirement.

Then I put us on break about ten minutes too early (D'oh!), which led to us taking a 20 minute break before the FTM got done with the theater.

Lessee... for the fake show, we had --

• Category, Die
• Good/Bad/Worst Advice
• Scene in Reverse (the variation where the director arbitrarily moves the scene forward or backwards)
• Pan Left/Pan Right [Mike hopped in at this point to direct]
• Genre Replay
• The Alphabet Game (with 'New Choice' added in)
• Death-in-a-Minute
• Montage (scenes with wipes, about seven minutes) [Spaz ran this bit]
• Line Games: "One-Night Stand" and "The Blue Micetro Finisher" [back to Mike]
• Words of Wisdom

[1] ... or that's what Spaz calls it; the one where you circle up and name objects in a category in some arbitrary order, and then get several such chains going simultaneously. We stopped at two chains.

[2] No idea what this is called. One person gets into the circle; everyone else tells the center person something about his/her character. After a while, the outer folks start asking the character questions, until the central person gets tired of it and trades out with somebody else.

Nice work, hoss. Seems like a solid jam to me. I'll try to head out to one sometime this month.

[TexasImprovMassacre]

can we add deciding what to officially call brain scrub onto the next AIC body meeting agenda?

[kaci_beeler]

can we add deciding what to officially call brain scrub onto the next AIC body meeting agenda?

yeah, cause I thought it was called Brain Bonanza

[bradisntclever]

can we add deciding what to officially call brain scrub onto the next AIC body meeting agenda?

Only if the vote is opened to the entire community via e-mail...

[Jessica]

I call it brain fuck when working with adults and brain scrub when working with kids.

[TexasImprovMassacre]

I know everyone is yes, anding...but it feels like my joke has been murdered by sincerity.

[hujhax]

*bump*

Anybody up for running tomorrow's jam?

[Jeff]

yeah, cause I thought it was called Brain Bonanza

I thought it was called Brain Robin the Boy Wonder.

[hujhax]

*one last bump*

Bueller?

[Roy Janik]

*one last bump*

Bueller?

Looks like it's all you, Peter.

Let's get some folks signed up to lead so the jam can be healthy, wealthy and wise, going forward.

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