Mission Reports

[Agent Todd]

If you stage a local mission, bump this thread with your mission report!

[D]

Here's GuerilLA's Supermarket Ballroom!


http://digg.com/comedy/A_group_of_people_waltz_through_a_supermarket

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/a70ji/a_group_of_people_perfor...

[Kettler Dorothea]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdlPh-3ym7E

20 September - we had a house shoe fight in middle of Bucharest. It was absolutely fun.
Urfortunately 120 people were supposed to come, but only 30-40 showed up.

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[Brandon Yu]

Imitation is the best form of flattery. Thank you Charlie Todd and Rob and High five crew for the High Five Escalator idea. I got it off of you guys and repeated it all the way on the other side of America. In San Francisco:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLZgP0TE39I

Not as many high fives but still very fun! It seemed like a variation. It's almost as if we used the cover of a broken escalator as an excuse to call it a high five escalator! I think it was a reward for getting people to walk up one of them.

The reason why no downtown underground escalators were used (such as in BART or MUNI) was because of the shortness (MUNI) and the unable to reach escalator from the stairs once you get towards the top (BART).

Most of the people you see in the video were enrolled from my friends in San Francisco. Two people came from the East Bay like me and I recruited them from this Urban Prankster website. Here is the link to the discussion: http://improveverywhere.ning.com/group/sanfrancisco/forum/topics/hi...

After that, four of us went to Lori's Diner and called it a good day... err, morning.

[Skipper Kim Corbin]

The San Francisco Skipping Mob on July 12th was great fun!!! Here's the video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhtI-lCJ0jk&feature=channel_page

For more info on the skipping movement check out http://www.iskip.com

Skip on!

Kim

[Thomas Kavanaugh]

On Saturday, August 1st the team we called Project 81 had an event on the Rooftop of the City Museum. Ours was an all-singing, all-dancing "happening" (sort of a cross between the Food Court Musical and the T-Mobile Dance) to celebrate the wonderfulness of kettle corn. There were over 100 people in the group. Most were singers or dancers or both, plus an assortment of actors, directors, coordinators and videographers (including UPN member Stew Smith).

The event—scheduled to begin at noon, but moved up to beat a storm front heading our way—began with the premise that we were videotaping a commercial for a new brand of popcorn, St. Louis Kettle Korn, when a man from the crowd begins to sing, a capella, the praises of kettle corn. Soon he was joined by a "maintenance worker" at the Museum, then a guy wearing a security staff shirt and finally a grandfatherly tourist, forming a barbershop quartet. The singers enter the Rooftop crowd trying to get the "strangers" to clap and sing along with them on the jingle. Some do, then more; before long a few begin a type of line dance, then more, then finally nearly a third of the people crammed onto the lower level of the roof are singing and dancing a totally choreographed "production number."

The surprise of the mission was in the gradual realization of the number of people involved and the complexity of the production. The surprise was evident on many faces (I only hope some of that was captured by the 6 cameras) and many people from the "real" crowd told us afterward how much they enjoyed being taken in by the trick.

We all enjoyed it. Great fun. A very happy day. We even beat the rain.

[Alex Janiuk]

We had about ten people (half that was supposed to show up) create a paparazzi parade through a huge mall in chicago. We had an agent become Emma Watson, and had bodyguards and paparazzi around her. The security guards at the mall fell for it and actually cleared the way for us. I'd say we had a good 30-40 people snapping photos on each of the 7 floors of the mall. Surprised us we pulled it off with such a small number of agents. Gave everybody in the mall a brush with stardom, and a story to tell. Was an awesome experience. Video will be coming Soon.

-Alex

www.thegpoc.com

[Kettler Dorothea]

25 july - We organised our 4th prank in Bucharest. Suddenly a person in the subway started singing. Then some other 2 guys joined him. After about 20 seconds half of the subway was singing. Some people were really shocked, some enjoyed the surprise and sang along (we chose a song, all romanians knew).
It was incredibly fun.

Nr. agents: 24

[Rui Rodrigues dos Santos]

Aqui o frozen dublin 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=975-64FM6VM

[Alex Janiuk]

I made a blog post regarding the mission we had: http://ajaniuk.com/?p=12

It got messed up. We froze twice by accident. Made this sweet video though

Freeze at the Millennium Park from Alex J on Vimeo.

-Alex
www.ajaniuk.com

[Danger Haynes]

I coach a local Improv Group (mostly High School Students) for the Improv Olympics held each year in March (Cleveland, Ohio - and did I mention our teams took home the Gold and Silver this year?) - anyhow, I've been trying to turn them on to doing some Improv Everywhere style events. I don't know if they take the ideas seriously, or if they think that because we're in a smaller town that we can't create experiences like we read about. So I decided to not just talk the talk, but to walk the walk.

Every year, my little town hosts the Miss Ohio Scholarship Contest...they use our big theatre and have a big parade.

The Mission - crash the parade with no other purpose than to have fun, engage the crowd, and maybe turn a few heads.

So I grabbed my superman costume out of the closet, had a friend dress up like Clark Kent, and we went down town. We showed up an hour before the parade started, but an hour after registered floats were supposed to be there. The main goal was to walk around and get people used to seeing us.
When the parade started, we merely walked around the people in charge while handing out candy to some kids on the street. Once past the organizers, we slipped onto the street and joined the parade. We had a blast stopping and talking to people on the way, taking pictures with kids, and greeting the public. I can't tell you how many moms stopped me wanting to get a picture with their babies. We took our time and often let other groups pass us... including marching bands (which was a great opportunity to dance) - one group even threw batons at us and let us join their routine.
When it was our turn to be announced by the different announcer stations, the EmCees were usually speechless, but would rattle off something about Superman and Clark.
I can't tell you how many picture messages came to my phone in the next couple hours - mix that with a picture in the local paper and several other places on the web...and we considered it a success.
At the end of the day, no one really suspected that we weren't supposed to be there...and we saw many of the Improv students (proving that we were serious).
The best part of all is that most groups just walked by paying little attention to the crowd...save a wave or a piece of candy. We, however, spent time with the crowds and hopefully created memorable experiences for all.
Good times

[Ben]

Improv Everywhere Victoria pulled off a Slow Motion Fight Scene in Bastian Square on June 27th! It began with two agents drawing the attention of those in the square with a loud and angry argument. But this soon escalated into a fight! The first fist was swung: it was real, it was fast, and it WOULD have been painful if it had not slllooowwweeeddd down at the last second. And then the battle grew as more and more agents joined. It soon came down to two agents while the rest lay littered about the square. These two dueled to the death, and the winner then performed a slow motion victory dance! The fallen agents were then revived one by one by the victorious fighter, and we all left the square separately and in different directions.

Check out the mission report:
http://improveverywhere.ning.com/group/victoriabc/forum/topics/figh...

And more importantly, the video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-9BYI3WPW0

Thanks to all those who came out! It was a blast! And stay tuned for the next mission: 'Fugitive' -- Coming to Victoria in approximately another two weeks.

[Kelsey W]

Cool Video and prank... But don't you guys know that you aren't supposed to name your group "Improv Everywhere Victoria"?? Agent todd specifically says not to name your group "Improv Everywhere [insert city]" http://improveverywhere.ning.com/profiles/blogs/1982446:BlogPost:35904

You should use some of your creativity to come up with a new name.