Improvisation in TV and Film panel from C2E2
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2014
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Second City luminary Craig Cackowski (Community; Veep), and Second City alumni Mark Gagliardi and Hal Lublin (Thrilling Adventure Hour) discuss improvisation techniques and uses for aspiring actors at a panel at Chicago's C2E2. So much of this applies to writing as well after all, what is improv but creating worlds, situations, and characters in the moment that it seems well worth sharing.
Recorded April 27, 2014
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| 0:00.0 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
| 0:05.0 | My name is Ben Blacker. I'm the creator of the Nerdist Writers' Panel series. |
| 0:10.0 | Follow me on Twitter at Ben Blacker and let me know who you'd like to see on this series. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm always looking for new ideas for TV, show, movies, books, comics, anyone you like who writes things. |
| 0:21.6 | Do me a favor, though, and check the archive to see if we've already had that person on |
| 0:25.7 | whom you would like to hear from. |
| 0:27.4 | Each and every Nerdist Writers Panel benefits 826LA, the National Writing Program for Students. |
| 0:36.5 | Please check them out at 826LA.org. |
| 0:40.6 | I am a television writer. |
| 0:43.0 | I've written for supernatural, super ninjas, |
| 0:47.2 | and I'm currently on the Netflix DreamWorks show Puss and Boots. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm also the co-creator of The Thrilling Adventure Hour, stage production |
| 0:55.4 | and the style of old time radio, which is a weekly podcast here on the Nerdus Network. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey guys, one more thing. We're still doing this retreat in Orvieto, Italy, which I am teaching, |
| 1:08.3 | a two-week workshop whereby you will write a script, a TV script, a movie script, |
| 1:13.5 | you can work on comic book stuff, whatever you want that I can help you write. |
| 1:17.6 | We're going to spend two weeks writing in Italy, about 90 minutes north of Rome in this beautiful little town. |
| 1:24.7 | There are not very many Americans there, so we're the worst ones there. |
| 1:30.2 | And it's just the most fun you can have while actually getting work done. |
| 1:36.1 | About half the group last year came out with really excellent drafts of TV pilots and |
| 1:43.1 | movie scripts. |
| 1:45.0 | And I think this year will be even better. |
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