blog 6

6. How easy or hard has it been for you to identify objectives, tactics, and beats for your scene? What do you and your partner still need to work on for this scene?

Up until this week, I had not been identifying objectives, tactics, and beats for our scene.  The main reason for this was that I did not know what they were.  After learning during class what these are, I have found it prety interesting that virtually every scene in any media ever has this same structure supporting it all the way through.  It has been relatively easy to find the objectives for Marty and Bobby.  It seems their main goal is to spread their father’s ashes at the Burning Man festival like their father had wanted. Marty seems to be more concerned as having this as his main objective, as when Bobby gets aggravated at him and threatens to simply pour out their father’s ashes in the hotel lobby, Marty freaks out.  Marty now has a second objective which is to calm his brother down and make him be rational about what is going on in that moment instead of looking to the main goal in the future.  Marty tries to calm Bobby using calming tactics by leveling with Bobby and saying things like, “I know we don’t get along, okay? I know we’re not buddies anymore...but...we’re going to get through this as quickly and cleanly as possible, and then we can go back to pretending we don’t know each other for the rest of our lives.  Now, please, put him down, and be reasonable.”  It is unclear if these calming tactics have worked for Marty, as this is where our scene ends.  I think my scene partner and I still need to work on fully understanding these guys that we will be portraying at the end of the month.  However, given the recent exercises, I feel that we probably will be able to understand and portray these characters by the end of the month.