Units and objectives for our own monologues.

This lesson was based upon units, objectives and subtext for our own monologues. To begin with, we took a copy of our monologues and split it into units where we felt necessary. I believe that my monologue has four different units. Although  there are only three paragraphs, I think that the second paragraph can be split into two different objectives. This is because; there is a clear shift in my character's mentality and her objective and mood changes drastically.

Moreover, then we had to think of an objective for each unit. An example of an objective is: for my second unit- "Trying to tell us why she's flustered". This is what she is trying to do throughout this unit. At first, she enters very rushed and flustered and she is trying to calm herself down, whilst explaining to the audience why it is that she's flustered in the first place.
 
Next, we had to add in action phrases to our units. These are similar to our objectives as they show what the is doing and explains why they're doing it, however, these are short phrases or single words which explain her objective. An example of auctioning in my monologue is for my second unit. The auctioning is "I trust you". I can interpret this as my character is telling the audience about her day. There appears to be a level of trust between the audience and my character as she doesn't hold back, and tells the audience all of the details of her experience.

Then, we next took our monologues and thought about the subtext in each line. With this information, we 'rewrote' our monologues with only subtext. Then we had to perform them with our sub textual rewrite. My character became more truthful and less filtered an it became more naturalistic. Rather than telling slight lies, she told the exact truth. An example of this is when she states that she wants to go to the museum. When she says it originally, she states it plainly but in subtext, she states that she just wants to see the pretty colours.

Finally, we then took our monologue and performed it with our objectives in. When we came to a new objective, we broke character and said our objective. Then we continued in character and finished our objectives. This was effective as it showed the audience clearly what our objectives and units were. Also, it helped us as actors to clearly understand our scenes as we could see the clear change between objectives and units.

Overall, I believe that this lesson was beneficial because it made my monologue clearer for me. I could obviously see each unit which helped me to understand my characters emotions and objectives.