Unlock Your Y.O.P (Your Online Potential)

Unlock Your Y.O.P (Your Online Potential) Hello and welcome to all! Screen-time. Don’t want to do it? Don’t want to be on screen? Don’t particularly want to see a digital version of yourself? Pre Covid, talking, teaching or socially engaging online, or talking to a camera was a novelty. But we are now immersed in a digital environment which has become our foremost point of human contact.  For comedy, performance, business et al, camera communication takes practice; lots of cringing; arm waving - but it can also create warm and memorable connections. Opening up and becoming vulnerable is also part of staring into a tiny camera mounted on black plastic. But this is your audience for the time being... It’s all about engagement. But at the beginning it is about unlocking your Y.O.P (your online potential) and learning how we might manipulate the camera to best effect. Once this is faced, understood and embraced – it can be mastered so that people are invited to warm to you. Just as a novel needs to hook its reader within the first sentence, how YOU appear on screen must pull in your audience immediately: allow then to KNOW you and get them asking questions so that they STAY.   *** Maggie and Comedy Matters are always adapting to what YOU, our lovely friends supporters need, or have asked for. We listen. We love receiving your messages and so here we are with new workshops. **Warning**  Attending one of these online classes might make you FUNNY! **************************************************   Collaboration with Beginnners and Giggers  Book Here   About this Event This Tuesday (5Week) workshop starts on 19 May - 16 June 2020 with a showcase/feedback 5th week for you to share your skills! The class runs from 7-9p (a percentage of all proceeds will go to Exeter Phoenix, so you will help support them too) ****************************************************   Brand New Topical Takeaway (a bit like fish on a Friday) - Book Here every FRIDAY Comedy Writing YOUR Character(s) A monthly drop-in workshop that focuses on character and what this means... Fri, May 29, 2020 7:30 PM – 9:00PM   **************************************************** NEW CLASS! Online Clowning / Comedy Session Sun June 14, 2020 10:00 AM – 11:30   We experiment with words, physicality, setting the camera and much more, to to be the funniest we can be. Camera comedy differs from stage comedy and learning this craft is exciting and will hold you in good stead for any online ventures in the future. Book Here **************************************************** To Womb it May Concern (in collaboration with Exeter Phoenix)   Creating Humorous Characters in Stand Up About this Event Sat 27 June 10-1pm & 2-4pm – Gig 4-4.30pm (with mini breaks in between) BOOK HERE Who is it for? Women - for beginners and improvers who want to explore and develop their comedy persona, characters, clowning and context. **************************************************** So that's what Comedy Matters are offering for the coming months; who knows when normality may resume, until then - let's get funny -  together :)                           Maggie has just finished Teaching Clowning for Stand Up. It was a huge success, well received and garnered fantastic results: 'The results really illustrated that the skills of clowning CAN be learned in any setting, any scenario and any time...'       As always, thank you from Maggie and the Comedy Matters team - we hope to see some of you soon and hope that you are all happy, safe and well. Cheers :)