Homework, 10/27
Objectives & Subtext
Thursday's Homework (due in drama class on Friday, 10/28):
Read through your script from beginning to end and mark two things in the margins:
1. Subtext (emotions) -- be specific. You should find many different emotions emerging from your character as the scene progresses.
2. Objectives--start with your character's objective (motive/desire/want) at the beginning of the scene ... then jot down each new objective that emerges.
Example:
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I moved all the script example to a page on my Rameyweb site because it was so long to post here...
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posted by lorojoro @ 10/27/2005 04:38:00 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
The more I do subtexting the harder it seems to get. Mainly just because I am learning how to do it more and more. Each time I go over my scene I start thinking "oh, I could add that to convey that." It makes it easier to act, but I am going to have to make sure that I keep my subtexting to the point though and not get all muddled trying to do to many things at once. I think that it is going to be lots of fun hard work though!
excellent point.
hopefully, as you work on the character over the course of the next several weeks, you'll be able (more & more) to naturally flow with the subtext.
seeing it written all out might be unnerving, but being forced to think about it will help in the long run.
and you don't need to memorize your subtext. You'll use the subtext ideas to color the lines & your acting ... and that's not so much memorizing as it is .... um, acting. ;)
I agree with Bethany, sort of. The hard part of subtexting for me is definitely picking one way to say a line out of seventeen possible ways. It will be great fun to experiment with the lines and see what works best!
the thing that suprised me the most was what i thought the subtext was reading it to my self, then going over it with Jessie from her tone and saying it for somone else to here changed the way i thought about the subtexting
I am amazed by how many different ways I can say one line.
me too, its exhausting, yet somehow really useful; especially when we're playing that 2 line game in drama
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