Acting Your Dreams: Using Acting Techniques to Interpret Your Dreams Read Online Free PDF Page B

&
Bond—Reading together
    —Ben &
Bond—Speaking together—Is Jacob well?
     
    You will notice
that every action, whether it was alluded to or spoken of outright, is
mentioned here. For example: “speaking.” Because of the nature of dialogue, if
something is said, then it is spoken. That is an action. Thinking is an action.
Ascertaining is a form of thinking so it is also an action and so it’s included
in the list.
     
    Now let’s tie
that all together into one action sentence and see what it looks like. This
sentence isn’t going to look like a properly formed grammatically correct
sentence, so don’t worry about punctuation. My sentence would read…
     
    Speeding
jumping standing screeching sitting filling speaking talking ascertaining
responding speaking speaking agreeing handing thinking handing ascertaining
keeping acknowledging speaking pulling reading making reading speaking.
     
    Sometimes, as
you’re filling in the action, you may notice certain patterns. You may notice,
for example, that there is both physical action and mental action in this
dream. That would seem to involve several faculties. The word ‘speaking’ shows
up often, as does the word ‘ascertain.’ As I pursue the dream further, these
actions will tell me more.
     
    In this case,
it is true of me that I try to solve my problems by using logic or trying to
talk my way into or out of situations. I often talk to myself, or sometimes
“God.” That I notice there’s so much speaking going on is significant to me
because that is how I like to resolve issues. Ironically, though, and further
analysis of the dream showed that not only was I trying to resolve an issue
through speaking, I was also afraid of giving too much away, and I was afraid
that ‘somebody’ was listening.
     
    Mission #7
    1.       See if you can find
the Through Line of Action in your dream.
    2.       Write down all the action in your dream.
    3.       Once you have
finished that, combine all the action into a single sentence.
     
    Trace a line, which runs through the
various actions of any given character. Do this by breaking down the story into
a basic plot, and then watching how everything is done in keeping with the
plot.

Characterization
     
    It’s the
journalist’s creed:
     
    Who?
    What?
    When?
    Where?
    Why?
    How?
     
    Characterization
and the Character Bio
     
    Every character
has a history. That history predates the character we meet on the screen and
has everything to do with who the character is by the time we meet them. Often
times we will know very little about the character going into the story.
Sometimes a voice, a narrator, either the character or a storyteller will tell
us something about the person we are about to meet. But most writers consider
that cliché and they prefer not to use that technique if they don’t have to.
Instead, the screenwriter tries other options to introduce us.
     
    The character
will make or break any story. The success of the story hangs on our ability to
believe in the characters and their mission. Names like Luke Skywalker, Clarice
Starling, Hannibal Lector, Indiana Jones, James Bond, ET, Harry Potter, Dorothy
and many more are all known better than the actors who played them. These were
characters who reached into our collective psyche and made themselves a part of
our pop culture. These characters introduced us to a whole new paradigm. Whether
we realized it or not, we were drawn into the story by the characters.
     
    Throughout a
story, the characters have some sort of goal or purpose that makes it a story
in the first place. They must overcome something or they must make an important
discovery. In Lord of the Rings, Frodo must overcome the evil Lord Mauldrin by
returning the Ring of Power that his uncle Bilbo found on a previous expedition.
Throughout the story, as we watch the events take place, we get to know the
character. We watch as Frodo wrestles with himself and with the other
characters in the