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WIAD16 Richmond - Improvised IA
- 1. 1 Improvised IA How Improv Allows Everyone to Craft Products World IA Day 2016, Richmond David Farkas @dafark8 #ImprovIA February 2016
- 2. 2 WARM UP THE BALL TOSS
- 4. 4 INTRO TO IMPROV WHAT IS THIS ANYWAYS?
- 5. 5 What is Improv? (A Brief History)
- 8. 8 Rule 1 – Everything is True
- 9. 9 Rule 2 – Stop Trying to Make Funny Happen
- 10. 10 Rule 3 – Failure is OK
- 11. 11 Rule 4 – Listen to the Scene
- 12. 12 Rule 5 – Support Your Players
- 13. 13 Rule 6 – Location, Location, Location
- 14. 14 Rule 7 – Raise the Stakes
- 15. 15 Rule 8 – Yield to the Strongest Offer
- 16. 16 Rule 9 – You are NOT the Star
- 17. 17 Rule 10 – Remember Everything
- 23. 23 IMPROV AND IA WHY DOES THIS EVEN MATTER?
- 26. 26 RFP – Requirement Gathering
- 40. 40 Secret – Don’t Call it Improv!
- 42. 42 BODYSTORMING
- 43. 43 Resources No Parking Players www.noparkingplayers.ofpgh.org/?page=1 Rules of Improv Encyclopedia (Rules & Games) improvencyclopedia.org/references/Rules_of_Improv.html improvencyclopedia.org/games Gamestorming (Improv For Us) gamestorming.com
- 44. 44 Personal Favorites • Bodystorming & Only Questions (performed today) • Yes Lets • Speed “Dating” (Sketching) • Thunderdome Collaboration • Murder Mystery • Metaphors • Foreign Movie
Editor's Notes
- Light Ball like at concert (*2) Bowling Ball Golf Balls Tennis Balls Water Baloons Eggs Lawn dart
- Goal is movement, loosen the body Image: http://bit.ly/1IIlaXj
- 2 peka kucha Activities between for engagement Audience participation is just as key as acting!
- Predates written word. The act of putting on a performance or show in an unscripted manner. In UX/Design Improv predates process because we havent always known what we are doing Resource: http://www.improvcomedy.org/history.html Image: http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/image10/historyofworld2.jpg
- Much of improv in our field is the ability to delight and confuse – to reveal a creative process in a digestible and desirable way Resource: https://uxmag.com/articles/yes-and-the-improv-of-ux Image: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-RQxD4Ff7dY/maxresdefault.jpg
- Rules according to the No Parking Players @ Carnegie Mellon https://fogsmoviereviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/captain_barbosa_with_jack_pirates_of_the_caribbean.png
- If an idea comes up, work with it. Don’t deny anything http://earnthis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/willy-wonka-gene-wilder-chocolate-factory-237937.png
- Creativity happens through the process. Same with being funny
- Not every design we come up with is a success. Not every skit or performance is succinct http://i.ytimg.com/vi/r_1ZCUqxxYA/maxresdefault.jpg
- Active listening. Be aware of your fellow players. Don’t think about what you are going to say next. Absorb what is happening and respond naturally. http://www.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/real-steel-2.jpeg
- Similarly help each other out. If someone is struggling, give them a hand Image: http://www.celebrityfanweb.com/wallpapers/Three-Stooges/02/Three-Stooges.jpg
- Scene, Support, Structure, PEOPLE! Personas Image: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FYf4U7Dnkqs/maxresdefault.jpg
- Make it BIGGER http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jx0DLvxW3b8/maxresdefault.jpg
- Remember the last rule? As things get larger, go with it https://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/66-6-the-matrix.jpg
- Be the guy behind the guy You are not the star, the scene is the star https://michaelpiggott.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/swingers-jon-favreau-vince-vaughn.png
- Reincorporation. Reintegration http://www.screenrelish.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/limitless-powerful-and-charismatic.jpg
- Keywords
- Planned/Scripted Practiced, Themes, Trends Image: http://photos.vanityfair.com/2014/09/22/542061601019a3955fea40b5_image.png
- Even in exercises today where you are not actively performing you are still part of the scene in PIMPING ideas to the players and providing feedback (laughing, shifting around, etc) that leads to adjustments in the performance http://medias.photodeck.com/c45499a8-94c2-11e2-a340-178994350a0c/20121028-Hoopla.RockyHorror.Englert.JustinTorner-30_original_uxga.jpg
- Need a place Need an activity – What is something two people would not be likely to be doing at this place? AUDIENCE ROLE: BOOOOO (Or Die) New member comes in from the line and TAKES OVER THAT ROLE! ANY PLAYER can call SCENE at any time, which ends the skit. (Usually a performer)
- PIMPING: - Need a place - Need an activity – What is something two people would not be likely to be doing at this place? - Need a time period
- Team Building/Client Trust http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y7mho_QpQIQ/maxresdefault.jpg
- RFP’s are often vague or open ended. Simple index card exercises can be performed quickly and easy and are ways to explore improv For instance, everyone in the room write down 3-5 cards of what they think the system should do, and order them top to bottom. You don’t even need to discuss (thought it’s helpful) and the team can the
- Even if what we do isn’t Community Theater http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CQ_GKZzQzkg/VUQavLT8sUI/AAAAAAAABOo/QWfSfrXY1bU/s1600/wet%2Bhot%2Bamerican%2Bsummer.jpg
- Participatory Design
- http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TFCOapq3uYY/maxresdefault.jpg
- The Conversation https://notreallyworking.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/conversation_3.jpg
- PIMPING Need a technological problem looking to solve Looking for a demographic
- Sunni Brown, Dave Gray, James Macanufo
- If time permitting, do a game of Foreign Movie Foreign Movie – 4 players Pimp for Location, Time Period, and Roles 2 actors in gibberish 2 actors narrating for each
- Questions or one more game? Foreign Movie Foreign Movie – 4 players Pimp for Location, Time Period, and Roles, Language! 2 actors in gibberish; 2 actors narrating for each Slide Show 5-7 actors with a single or two presenter(s), telling a story of their trip to a ??? Instead of a trip, 2 people describing photos of people using a new technology. The actors get in positions and the presenters tell the story based on what they see. The actors then respond for each image based on what they are hearing the story unfold. Back Dancing Break off in pairs, must always remain with backs touching back to back. The catch it you are each dancing (and humming!) different song types. (slow dance and hip hop depending on what wall facing)