Monday October 3- Improvisation

So I wasn't in class the last week because I was sick, so today was the first time I was doing the Improv Games. Nicholas, Pedro, and Sebastian where in my group and I think we did very well together. We started with the "Freezing" game and I think at in overall we where good. We didn't have trouble changing the situations, however I did have trouble moving forward with a situation and doing new things. So for example, I freeze the scene and I started with another idea, but then I didn't know how to go on or make the scene more interesting or fun. So I do have to work on my improvisational skills of proposing new actions or ideas when I already have a scene and an environment.
Moreover, I did think that we did very well in the questions part. At first, I didn't really get it, but then the teacher explained to us that we had to move the actions forward with the questions which makes everything so much difficult because basically a questions is suppose to paralyze an action so it was challenging but after some trails I go the handle of it, however it is difficult to ask another question when the question they asked you is a good one or one that moves forward so it is a vicious circle and you have to be very quick with your mind and be creative enough to know how do you ask a question on top of a question.
Moreover, at the end of the class, they showed us a video of a TV show that I had seen before that is called: Who's line is it anyway. And the program started in the UK, but they did an English version and to be honest, the english version is much better; probably because when they did the english version, they had already understood more about the rules of improvisation and how it can be funny, while in the UK version, they still didn't get very much what improvisation was about.
I did think it was quite interesting what the teacher said about how being a great actor doesn't necessary mean you are good in improvisation and it is absolutely true. There are a lot of good actors you simply don't see them doing improvisation, or they just don't have the talent of inventing a scene on the spot. For example, I really don't see Angelina Jolie being good at improvisation. She seems of a much serious person than that. However, I do see for example, Charlie Sheen being good at improvising.
On top of this, I do believe that improvisation is connected with comedy. It seems as if the good improvisations made by actors or people in the drama class are all funny. And this fact may affect the person able to do this as well. I don't really see Angelina Jolie in a comedy; she is more of a dramatic actress and I think this has to do with the fact that she may not be good at improvisation.
Finally, I think that there are a lot of aspected of improvisation that we haven't grasp upon yet. There are a lot of clues and rules that can help you be better at improvising and before trying it, you HAVE to know this rules; this way you will be successful. The only ones I know if propose and accept, but there are many more I don't know yet.