Once again I have let too much time lapse between class and my journal entry. It’s been a busy week…we’re getting closer to opening I Hate Hamlet and between production related tasks, work, and other distractions I am falling behind in other areas.
This week was full exercises with an added ingredient: The Nerve. The Nerve is related to the circumstances that create the need to complete the IA or the AP, however it deals with the entire scene, not just the activity. It is the “why” of why we go after what we want, and provides insight into the stakes involved in getting what we are going after. I guess in Stanislavskian terms, it is the Super Objective as opposed to the Objective.
I worked with Megan, and overall I felt that the exercise went well, although I knew from the start that I was not connected to the Hot Who that I had assigned to her. I have discovered that I am really good at crafting circumstances, triggers, activities, and the other elements, but I tend to get so caught up in what it is that I need to accomplish that I neglect to allow my partner’s behavior to affect me, particularly when I have the IA. I know this, and I am trying to address it, but I get so filled by my own objectives that the blinders go on. I know that I am not the only one who struggles with this, but it does become frustrating. I am a bit better when I have an AP, or now for the full exercise, the objective.
Next week we trade and Megan has the IA…we’ll see how things go.