literature help?????

Question

im writiing a script and its about a girl who talks to the camera as if the camera is a person she also shares her emotion to the camera...

so out of these which one would it be.....

Exterior monologue: This is where the actor speaks to another person who is not in the performance space or to the audience.

Interior monologue: This is where the actor speaks as if to himself or herself. It is introspective and reveals the inner motives to the audience. This is also a common device in stream of consciousness writings. Frequently in modern theatre, the actor may deliver the monologue in an "aside" (or a sequence of asides).

and would i include it in my script??? and where abouts?

Answer 1

From your description, it's an exterior monologue. The actor is talking out loud as if there was another person present.

You don't need to include this in your script though, any more than you would have to specify that it was written in English. It should be obvious to whoever reads it.

As for the suggestion that "plays and screenplays are stories of action, not talking", that's true but it doesn't mean that you can't have stories of action delivered through talking. Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" being just one famous example. The dramatic monologue is a very well established format.

Answer 2

Its called a canon law refers to both origin and value. In literary- critical usuage it applies 1. works which could indisputably be ascribed to a particular author 2. a list of works set apart from other literature by virtue of their literacy quality and importance. The acamedics decide the curriculum and books to be read. Shakespeare works, To kill a Mockingbird , Catch 22 are in the canon.This great literature is studied at primary school but particularly high school and University. Then there is paraliterature to describe work which is seen to be literaty in a broad sense but non-canonical, such as crime fiction, romantic fiction and sort of poetry published in a mass-circulation magazines, and so on. Debates about the canon have inevitably, led to the coining of a range of subterms. A "canon war" is what happens when members of an academic department engage in battle for and against proposals to change the syllabus in lin with what is perceived to be a need to change(or to recognise that a change has taken place) in the canon.

Answer 3

interior monologue... when she speaks to the camera she is sharing her emotions and inner thoughts with the audience. it seems to me as though your character is sharing sort of the inner monologue of her mind with the camera - which fits better with interior monologue. you should include it in the script, wherever you think it belongs (it should interrupt the "action" of the story with the aside to the camera whenever your character turns to the camera to speak).

Answer 4

im presuming this is a film script/?
and if you want the actor to look as though the camera is another person this should be documented as an instruction for the actor and camera operator

Answer 5

Didn't anyone ever tell you that plays and screenplays are stories of action, not talking? They only seem like they are talking because they are written in dialogue.

Answer 6

I would definitly say Interior monologue. That way people feel like Its her true feelings and it feels real. they like that.