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Getting Great Dialogue Through Improvisation
SPEAKER/S: Tom Keegan (TomK Productions)
DAY / TIME / LOCATION: Wednesday 10:30-11:30 Room 3011, West Hall 3rd Fl.
TRACK / FORMAT: Audio , Production / Lecture
DESCRIPTION: With the bar set increasingly high for story and performance elements in games, how do you bring the words to life in the studio or performance capture stage? Veteran videogame talent director, Tom Keegan, shares time-tested methods for using improvisation to get the gold out of a script or situation. His presentation will take you through the process of boiling down the facts of each scene into playable goals called actions. Using professional actors, Keegan will show how he uses action to set up simple improvisations that bring scenes to life and create performances with energy, subtlety, and depth.

TAKEAWAY: Attendees will see actors improvise with a set of tools that every game writer, designer, and director can use. They will see how to apply action verbs at every stage from conception, scripting, rehearsal, staging and recording, and how to improvise with actions to get results.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: This presentation covers essential skills that are useful for anyone involved in the performance aspect of gaming. While simple to grasp, they can be used for exploratory play or studied over many years for in-depth mastery of performance coaching. A game script will be used for demonstration purposes in the presentation.

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