Dramatic Monologues, Dramatic Scenes, PSA

DAY 6: Dramatic Monologues, Dramatic Scenes, PSA

• Discuss monologues
• Spend 15 minutes rewriting monologues but think about these things:
1) Know the character – who is the character, what does the character want in the monologue, where is the character, who is the character addressing. What are the characters attitudes toward life? How does the character relate to other people?
2) Outline the story
3) Tell the story – there’s got to be a story (remember the personal stories that everyone told: a monologue needs the same sort of thing)
4) KEEP IT SIMPLE
5) Use Imagery (remember you are creating an experience for the audience to experience – in order to do this you need to evolve the five senses)
6) Have the character address someone. Have the character talk to someone – there should be some tension here.
7) Remember conflict – conflict –conflict.
We will perform these monologues on Monday. I want you to email them to me so I can give you feedback and sit down one-one with you about them.
Review: What makes good dialogue? What makes good dramatic structure?
• Creating Scenes
• Break up into groups of 3/4 , give students a situation and have them role play the situation. Then after everyone has taken a turn write down the script.
• 20 minutes to role-play. 20 minutes to write down script.
• Present scenes to class.

SCENE SUGGESTIONS FOR GROUPS:
1) Setting: Football (soccer) or Hockey game
A father and son outing after the mother has just passed away. The son confronts the father about some aspect of their pass.

2) Two musicians stuck in an apartment elevator. One is thinking about robbing/murdering an old lady who lives nearby because artist need to live and create and the woman is rather old.




3) A man and a woman in the kitchen. The man has been laid off and is tried of looking for work. The woman is tired of his moping around the house and wants something more from him.


4) A homeless person on the street confronts what appears to be a rich man over and over again about money and society.


• PSA Scripts
• (website examples)
OUTLINE on HOW TO WRITE A PSA:
1) Address the problem immediately
2) List the essential information (facts, statistics, data)
3) Encourage your audience to take action
4) Tell them who to contact and how
Write this outline before you do anything else to the script. Some of you are trying to make your PSA too complicated.
KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!
THE IMPORTANT THING IS THE MESSAGE.
Final 20 minutes: Time to write/rewrite and show PSAs to KENT

How to write a PSA from ehow

Video: How to write a monologue

An article on writing monologues