Chunk's Corner: The Rules of Improv

This marks the debut episode of the Fliptoppers original series Chunk's Corner! Here at Chunk's Corner, Chunk will be learning and acquiring skills from guests of all types of professional backgrounds. For the first episode, Chunk is accompanied by fellow Fliptoppers performer and Improv Instructor/Founder of ImprovLA, Keith Saltojanes, who teaches Chunk some of the basic rules of improvisation. Note that this sketch was not written and was improvised day of! Thanks for watching! We hope you enjoy it and share it with your friends! Please give us a thumbs up, comment and most importantly, subscribe! Thanks!

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Improvised by Keith Saltojanes and Art Vega
Director - John Jennings
Assistant Director - Kenny Brown
Camera - Kenny Brown
Sound - John Jennings and Michelle Ferri
Lighting - Kenny Brown and Art Vega
Opening Animation - Art Vega
Background Design - Art Vega
Editor - Art Vega

Chunk - Art Vega
Keith Saltojanes as himself

Fun Facts about this episode:

- The idea for this first episode dated back to some of our first meetings back in August of 2010, when we were trying to figure out how to set up a green screen and would just improvise scenes to run tests. When John tried to do a scene with Art, he wouldn't respond to anything John would say because he wasn't familiar/comfortable improvising, (though we had a perfect Harpo Marx impression). So in a round about way we decided to teach Art (through Chunk) the rules of improvisation, and fellow Fliptoppers puppeteer and veteran improviser, Keith Saltojanes/Farfalle, was perfect for the job!

- This is the last sketch we shot at John's apartment before moving our operation to Cosmic Toast Studios in Burbank. Better quality green screen skeches are on the way!

- When we couldn't figure out a good live location to shoot the series in John's apartment, we opted to set up the green screen last minute and just put them wherever we wanted and boy did we stretch our imaginations...!

-Though Art did improvise his original lines (the goal of the whole episode), Art didn't do any actual improvising once the camera was rolling. He had to have his lines repeated to him between each take, and could not remember more than one shots worth at a time. Baby steps!

- Our iron broke half way through de-wrinkling the green screen, so we are now the proud owners of a steamer!

- Keith is taking swigs from a bottle of Jamaican rum. Though no actual alcohol was consumed by any member of the group during the filming of this sketch. John's bed got quite the buzz after Art spilled a good amount of it while trying to cover up the label...

- Every time Keith walks of camera, he walks right into John's walk-in closet.

-This is the first time a person has been in a sketch.

- There is a white dot on Keith's chest throughout the entire scene which is caused from a lighting error on our part. Sorry!

- This is the first Fliptoppers sketch to include 3D animation!

- This is our first original vocal intro song to a sketch/series. Art went to Kenny's house for what he thought was going to be a 20 minute recording session, but it painstakingly turned into a 4 hour session. After hours of coaching (and heavy drinking and industrial earplugs on Kenny's part), this is what you get. We're sorry!


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Category:

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[FrankLauteri]

great video! :D i wanna see Chunk learn how to drive a car :D or better yet..stick shift! ^_^

[Fliptoppers]

@FrankLauteri That would certainly be an undertaking!

[childodoom]

AAAAAAH! It's Saltyjones! :D

[Fliptoppers]

@childodoom It sure is! Make sure you subscribe to keep up with his/our shenanigans! :)

[thecandopuppets]

This is awesome!!!!



[Fliptoppers]

@thecandopuppets Thanks Cando Puppets! More is one the way!

[Fliptoppers]

@Whatnot1997 Thanks whatnot1997! More sketches to come!

[Whatnot1997]

this is hilarious!

[Fliptoppers]

@johnleisurely69 Thanks for watching John! We're working on a few options to get the word out and a series that can be posted weekly to increase traffic :) Hope you're doing well!

[Fliptoppers]

@awspuppets Thanks!