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Artistic goal
- 1. Artistic Goal 101 Character MODULE Onstage MODULE Manifestation ONE TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Thisis a crash-course in dramatic structure. I didn’t like how the textbook did it, so I am deviating from it. There are some definitions you need from the book, but otherwise, everything you need is on these slides.
- 2. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE The Artistic Goal is what the author actually wants to accomplish in writing a piece. Bad writers do this overtly and poorly. With bad writers, you know the artistic goal, because that’s all that the characters say. “War is evil.” “Cancer is bad.” “Love is everlasting”. BOOOO
- 3. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE If “War is Evil” is what you want to say with your play: First Off: Pick another one, because that’s pretty lame. Secondly: Your characters should NEVER say it. The audience should come to that conclusion for themselves. They should walk out of the theatre knowing, ‘man, I kinda liked war, but it’s EVIL’.
- 4. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE And all an Artistic Goal is, is an actionable version of the THEME.
- 5. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE THEME is something that English teachers have been messing up FOREVER. The theme of something is NEVER a couple of words. It is ALWAYS a complete sentence.
- 6. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Play / Movie Romeo and Juliet Roots Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Bad Theme True Love Slavery To Kill a Mockingbird Racism
- 7. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Play / Movie Bad Theme Romeo and Juliet True Love Roots Slavery Star Wars Space Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Better Theme True Love conquers death. A man’s spirit can never be crushed. Being a hero is sacrifice.
- 8. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Do you get the idea a little better? Theme needs to have two parts: the intangible, and a perspective on it. AND, there can be more than one theme to a work! So we can all have different themes!
- 9. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Remember that all themes need perspective. That is what makes a work unique. “Roots” has a ‘bad theme’ of racism. Do you know what else has a ‘bad theme’ of racism? “Mein Kampf” But both have VERY different perspectives.
- 10. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Perspective is what makes you, you. And a perspective is what you have to put into the work.
- 11. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE The artistic goal is what the audience walks away with at the end of the piece. Ideally, they are engaged in something which is amazing and enthralling, and they are gut-punched at the end and they say ‘oh shit, I should have known this all along’.
- 12. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE EXAMPLES: “Requiem for a Dream” I know that hardcore addictions are bad, but that’s not how it starts. It starts awesome so I’m sucked into their world. And by the end I am left empty and hollow as I realize the fundamental truth, “all drugs are devastating”.
- 13. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE EXAMPLES: “Hero” I am sucked in with awesome fights and action sequences, and the goal to assassinate this Chinese leader because War is bad. Right? WRONG, I get to the end, and I learn the Artistic Goal is that “Being a good leader is knowing when to stop fighting.”
- 14. Artistic Goal Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation • ArtisticGoal – Introduction – Theme – Perspective – Conclusion TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE The perception shift transitions the audience from the Plot they are watching, to the artistic goal they should have been watching all along.