You don't need backstory: starting scenes in the middle
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You don't need backstory: starting scenes in the middle
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Starting a scene with two people standing there asking "who are you?" or explaining a bunch of backstory is one of the quickest ways to lose your audience. In this episode, I talk about why exposition bogs down the top of your scene and how starting in the middle of the action gives your scene immediate momentum.
This is the first in a short four episode series about the top of the scene, initiations, and base reality. I reference Truth in Comedy (linked in the show notes below) and walk through two exercises: a partner drill where one player starts a physical action and the other identifies and justifies it, and a solo version arbitrarily called Narrate This where you practice describing and justifying your own actions in real time.
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Truth in comedy: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/truth-in-comedy-the-manual-for-improvisation/9781566080033.html
YouTube version of this episode: https://youtu.be/WFyTR-IJc-s
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Chapters
00:00 Why backstory kills your scenes
00:59 Truth in Comedy and why exposition doesn't work
02:29 Start in the middle of the action
03:59 Partner exercise: identify and justify
05:26 Adding challenge by making actions illegal
06:27 Solo exercise: Narrate This
07:33 Wrap up
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