Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The 7 stages of Machine of Death

If we're playing out scenes, what part of a character's life are we going to see? We broke the possibilities down into seven stages.

1. Character's natural state -- no prediction.
2. Character just before they are tested.
3. Character being tested.
4. Character just after the test / viewing the results.
5. Character's natural state -- with prediction (i.e. after the emotion of finding out how they will die, they will slowly adapt to the new version of 'normal' life.)
6. Death
7. Aftermath / consequences of the death.

Of all of these, we think that #6 will be the least interesting to do in an improv show (without resorting to gimmick).