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- 1. Dramatic Questions 101 Character MODULE Onstage MODULE Manifestation ONE TWO Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE This is 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. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE The dramatic question is the question that the audience asks itself throughout the play. Will John find his father? Will Heather fall in love? Blah blah blah.
- 3. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE It’s boring and useless when you look at it from an observer’s perspective. Look at it from a creator’s point of view.
- 4. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE When you create, you start at the END. What is the reality that you want at the end of your play?
- 5. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE I don’t know what movies you’ve seen, so I’m going to use this course as an example. You want to get an ‘A’.
- 6. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Garret gets an ‘A’. Is my reality at the end of this course.
- 7. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE So what is the question out of that? Well there’s two.
- 8. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE “Garret gets an ‘A’”. _______ gets an ‘A’. Garret gets a _____.
- 9. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE “Garret gets an ‘A’”. Who gets an ‘A’? Oh, GARRET gets an ‘A’.
- 10. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE “Garret gets an ‘A’”. What does Garret get? Oh, Garret gets an ‘A’.
- 11. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE This may sound arbitrary, but those are the two dramatic questions that you can work with, which gives you the SAME dramatic answer.
- 12. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Because they’re linked. So, a good creator takes the first question: Who get’s an A?
- 13. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Who gets an A? And makes it everyone BUT Garret at the beginning of the play.
- 14. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Who gets an A? Garret is so worthless, he couldn’t possibly get an ‘A’. So when he gets one, its CRAZY cool.
- 15. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE But we’re REALLY watching to see what Grade Garret gets. And it ain’t an ‘A’ until the last possible moment.
- 16. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE On the discussion board. Under “Dramatic Question”
- 17. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE Make the subject of your post, a Dramatic Answer (IE, Garret gets an A) And the body has all of the dramatic questions associated with it. (AT LEAST 2)
- 18. Dramatic Question Character MODULE ONE Onstage MODULE Manifestation TWO • Dramatic Question – Introduction – What it starts as – What it becomes – Exercise Dramatic MODULE Question THREE Artistic MODULE Goal FOUR Perception MODULE Shift FIVE EXTRA CREDIT IF YOU TAKE IT FROM A REAL PLAY/MOVIE/TV SHOW