Objective

In lesson we were being told about a characters objective, (aka what is their aim in the play?).
Stanislavski is the person who came up with this idea, he did it to push actors into their characters shoes, and it also helps the actor/actress understand why their character is doing what they're doing.
Stanislavski also came up with the super objective, which is the main theme of the play. He also get the script and split it up into "units" and examine what a character was saying and how they would/could speak, and sees how they would/could move. This would help the actors get into their characters better because they understand everything about their character.

The first exercise we did today was obviously based on objectives. What we had to do was get into partners, I was with Andy, and we then assigned ourselves letters (A) and (B).
(A) was a school student trying to get out of lesson and (B) was the teacher trying to keep the student in lesson.
It was just the student trying to leave and be naughty though, they were coming up with excuses as to why they needed to leave the classroom and the teacher had to try and keep them in for as long as possible.

For the second exercise, we were picked at random and we got given an objective in secret that we need to try and achieve on stage.
We were given a scene to act but we had to stick to our individual objective still without making it too obvious.

This is to show how to do the objective exercises, you always use a verb when talking about your objective and then it leads to having an obstacle in the way, then it finally leads to having an amendment which is a minor change.