Anna Gentle, Jay Edwards, and Kenny Madison, a Film and Video Studies junior, film an improvised scene about panhandling on the South Oval Saturday evening. Eli Hull / The Daily

Actors and filmmakers took to the streets of Norman to shoot improvised videos Saturday night.

At the first Neutrino film project, four teams, made up of members of O.U. Improv!, the OU Film Production Club and Red Dirt Improv, shot their own films based on a theme audience members provided. As segments were completed, team members ran their tapes back to the viewing hall in Dale Hall so an audience could watch the continuing narratives. The final video included the characters from all four videos coming together to link their stories.

What this translated into for the audience was a collection of four humorous videos based on the prompt “panhandling,” all coming together at the end of their narratives with an overarching conclusion.

Since the films are not edited and are being seen for the first time in front of the audience, no one knew where the story might go.

This made the job of providing a musical score for the videos a difficult one.

“Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t,” said Stephanie Bidelspash, physical science junior, who tried to keep up with her keyboard. “I just kind of go with what I see and read the moods and feel for what’s going on.”

The audience turnout, with fewer than 20 people in attendance, was lower than organizers would have liked, said Tyler Bryce, former artistic director for O.U. Improv! and current Red Dirt Improv member.

“It was a small turnout, but we tried to get it together in a rush,” Bryce said.

He said the only form of advertising they used was Facebook.

A team that accidentally videotaped the entire setup of a shot, just to stop recording at the command “action!,” accentuated the blitz of the event.

Nick Chancellor, film and video studies senior, was a member of that team. He said the problem came about because not everyone on the team knew how to use the camera.

“That’s the problem with this sort of thing. Everyone has to do every role at some point,” Chancellor said.

He said he had fun, though. He also said the event was a good way for people to test their creative capabilities.

“You kind of get a tunnel-vision thing. You don’t even get to think about what you’re doing before you’re done doing it,” Chancellor said.