Objectives

Objectives are verbs used to give a line meaning. They are used so that you are able to alter your voice depending on what your line is giving across. An objective is very important because it changes your tone of voice and it changes the mood depending on how you show it with your body.

You should be able to show an objective without using speech and it should be easy to understand what the character is trying to do. An objective should always be played as high as possible because then can be played down and its also easier for the audience to understand what the character is thinking.

By taking a sentence or line from a script you can mark where the objective changes. You have to look for when your characters purpose of being there and what they are actually doing or feeling has changed.  A line can have as many objectives as you want, it depends what kind of actor you are and with these objectives you can experiment with your body how to portray it and then add words.

For example, this is a line from my script:

Then I'm going south to Butare to the National Museum. / Its supposed to be amazing and then back to Kigali and then north to my village to -

To Inform/To excite.

(You mark objectives with a / )

I believe this line only has two objectives however other people may interpret it differently.

An Objective is basically the reason for your presence and it is extremely important to know what the objective is for each different chunk in your script.