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TV companies have been struggling to come up with a decent way to show improv on screen for some time. The RH Experience have done pretty damn well on their own, actually:

Open House

We like improv on film. So here is a short film made for a 48-hour film competition, created by some of our favourite improvisers: Charlotte Gittins, Briony Redman and Paul Foxcroft, and directed by Kate Herron.

Enjoy!


Performers:
Briony Redman, Charlotte Gittins, Dean Kilbey and Paul Foxcroft

Director:
Kate Herron (Moonfruit)

Story:
Kate Herron, Wilf Eddings, Luke Wicker

Production:
Luke Wicker, Wilf Eddings (YCC)

Director of Photography:
Chris Andrews

2nd Camera:
Dan Goodall

Sound:
Tom Whetmore, Scott Youlden

Continuity:
Bhavari Patel

David Shepherd: A Lifetime of Improvisational Theatre

Hey everyone, have a look at this. It's a film about the life and work of David Shepherd, the co-founder of the first modern professional improvisational theatre, The Compass. The Compass featured actors such as Allan Arkin, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, Jerry Stiller, Severn Darden and improv guru Del Close. The Compass was succeeded by The Second City.

This feature film was made for the purpose of helping improvisors to know something about the roots of their craft and to see how one of its founders has spent a lifetime exploring improvisational formats. The film was commissioned by the Canadian Improv Games with the intent of making it free to watch and as available as possible to improvisors everywhere.Enjoy!

Impro at the Edinburgh Festival - a short documentary

Interesting short film about Impro from The Guardian website:

Brian Logan explores different types of improvisation on the Edinburgh fringe, and takes a Chaucerian workshop with the 'hard bardic' group The School of Night

He meets the Phill Jupitus Quartet and finds improv breaking out of its Whose Line is it Anyway? box: taking suggestions from the audience, channelling the spirits of Sylvia Plath or Chaucer - and even daring, sometimes, not to be funny.

Also featured are the brilliant School of Night and the energetic Noise Next Door.

The Improvised Film Challenge - The RH Experience Video

As promised (well, not a promise really, more of a suggestion) we are making attempts to put all of the videos from the Improvised Film Challenge up, so that the 9 billion people of earth who weren't there can get to see them. Today, please enjoy the offering from the wonderful Team RH Experience, created in just one hour from the audience suggestion: "The Return Of The Reject (12a)"

The RH Experience are already YouTube superstars in their own right. If you haven't checked out their YouTube channel before, I encourage you to do so. They're lovely lads who have been putting out regular improv videos for ages. We like that they hang around, and we like this video. Here you go!


We'll put up the rest when we can. If you would like to receive updates (never more than once a week), let us know at LondonImprov@gmail.com

The Improvised Film Challenge - Glitch Video

Last night we saw some amazing videos from teams of improvisers who were given just one hour to make a short film based on an audience title suggestion. In the time it took Music Box to perform their last improvised musical before they go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the teams had to take their suggestion, come up with an idea, film AND edit; to show it to the audience. We saw videos of human airplanes, rejected beast-women on internet dates and a hunt for a stolen zebra on a council estate.

Team Glitch (Jinni, Dave and Mike) were given the title "Obama's Brain (Not)", and here is their fabulous video featuring a fight sequence and soundtrack:

We'll be putting the other videos up as soon as we work out how.

If you would like email updates, send a message to LondonImprov@gmail.co.uk saying so.

Open Letters to P W Wiseman - Part 3a

Episode 3 is out!

For details about the Open Letters to P. W. Wiseman project, read here.

Open Letters to P W Wiseman - Part 2a

Episode 2 is out!

For details about the Open Letters to P. W. Wiseman project, read here.