Realism & Naturalism (4) - Intention & Objection

• Intention: Overall arc. What your character's intention is in general?
• Objective: Scene by scene. What your character's purpose is in different places? This can change halfway through a sentence. Purpose of the objective is to bounce off other characters.

In one of Stanislavski's lessons he looked worried so his class asked him what was wrong. He told them that he had lost his keys, so the class started looking for them. After a while, he revealed that he hadn't lost his keys and so his students were confused as to why he had "wasted" their time. He told them to look at how they were when looking for the keys, thinking they were actually missing, compared to how they would have acted looking for keys - he was demonstrating naturalism.

We then got our scripts out from the first lesson ("After the End") and worked out what our characters intention was and what their objectives were at different points. I think my character's intentions were to stay safe, find out what was going on and to not upset Mark. I then looked at the short section that Ollie and I performed in the first lesson, and worked out what my characters objectives were throughout the scene. My first objective in this scene was to clear my name and also to convince Mark that she wasn't going to leave without saying goodbye and that she would have called him. When they were talking about whether she had the chance to "talk to [him] properly last night" or not, her objection changes to trying to remember what happened. When the conversation changes to whether they argued or not, her objective is to find out the truth. For the rest of this scene her objective is to clear everything up and sort out the issues between them - she does not want to upset him. We shall be performing these scenes against next lesson with objectives in mind, and we shall also be learning about proxemics.

As Lewis wasn't in, so we Charlie didn't have his partner to do his scene with, we moved on to monologues. We will be using these monologues in lessons to come, but for now we just read through them. The monologue I have is from "Eight" by Ella Hickson. The character who performs my monologue is called Mona, and she has been abused by her father, her mother has removed all of the doors in her house and filled the place with men and Mona runs away. Whilst she is on the run, she meets a guy in he graveyard and has sex with him. When she wakes up, he is gone. She is pregnant.