PianoFight goes to Watsonville, Is Pregnant* *With New Content Ideas
Two weekends ago, PianoFight creative collaborators corralled themselves within the walls of a rustic Watsonville beach house to brainstorm new content ideas at the first-ever, company-wide “PianoFight Creative Retreat.” The compound, overlooking the Pacific and stacked with seven sexy (idea-inspiring) bedrooms, served as a veritable breeding ground for fresh comedy content, original songs, impromptu short film productions, animation, and more. And subsequently, of course, we all got fertilized!
The weekend’s activities included improv games + training (facilitated by improv vets Rachel Rockwood and Alex Boyd), writing exercises (driven by the brilliant Sir Evan Winchester), short seminars on animation & stage conventions, free writing time, and a four-hour multi-room creative brainstorm activity. The combination was overwhelming in its nature, but impregnating in its execution – each of us left knocked up with an amassment of ideas, ranging from large-scale movement productions (Mother Goose meets Indiana Jones & a stripper pole) to single-panel animations (drunk Pope’s adventures with an omniscient Twitter bird). You heard it here first, inter-web -PianoFight is pregnant!
Is the metaphor old yet? Yeah, I agree. Let’s abort.
In between creative brainstorming and content generation, we did find some time to relax, eat chicken, frolic on the beach (good bye, cell phone, I hope you have some naughty adventures in the Pacific’s underworld), and reaffirm company love. The retreat generated a lot of new ideas and gave us the opportunities to explore collaborating with new groups within the company. It will be up to our highly-talented, driven, and proactive company members to take the next steps to publish and produce their ideas; and we’re confident that they will. Nine months from now, you’re going to be playing with & exploiting hella babies.
- Nicole
Posted June 15, 2011 at 5:41 pm
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