here we are with part two talking about tactics so to recap a tactic is what you are doing to the other character in a scene to elicit a specific desired emotional response from them you play a tactic to try to accomplish your objective so I have the thing that I want my objective the thing I want from the other character and I'm going to try a bunch of different ways to try to get what I want from them let's look at an example okay here's 's the scene well let's actually make it not a scene let's make it real life for a second because real life is a scene right have you ever tried to get your supervisor your boss to give you a raise um a lot of us have I I know I have um you have to try a bunch of different strategies a bunch of different tactics in order to accomplish that so what is the objective then my objective is to get my boss my supervisor to give me a race I have to try a bunch of different things cuz that's tough nobody wants to part with money so what am I going to do to my boss uh to try to get what I want to try to get my objective met which is get my boss to give me a raise well I might flatter my boss everybody tries this at first right um you're a great boss uh I love I love working here this is this is my dream job and they say thank you and that's not getting you any closer to what it is you need then you might impress your boss when the flattering doesn't work um you know I I I did this thing that took everybody else uh months to do I turn that around in three days I'm amazingly productive at this job still not working they're still not any closer to giving you a raise then you try to negotiate with them um uh you try to you know to to see if there's a way to meet in the middle then that doesn't work then you start to bring out some heavy duty uglier tactics um I might guilt them or shame them about how little money I have it's not a living wage um I'm working so hard and there's so little money um and this isn't right because management has a much bigger salary that doesn't work then I might intimidate well there doesn't seem to be pay Equity here because I've noticed that the men are earning more than I am right and I might bring this matter up with HR or my union or whatever it is right as you can see I am escalating my tactics so I start with nice things I'm flattering that I'm moving on to impressing them that's not working I'm trying to negotiate and then I bring out the big guns and I shame them and I intimidate them I'm changing up my tactics because if I stick with tactics that all are in the same sort of world my scene isn't moving forward so if if I try flattering them and that doesn't work and then I try buttering them up and that doesn't work and then I try um I don't know something else that's nice it doesn't work and the scene doesn't move do you see how this is moving covering a lot of ground in terms of what I'm doing to them that makes exciting theater so you can see my pictures here two people at an impass right uh at the negotiation table then there's a tug-of war a power struggle and then we're reaching some kind of agreement in the last picture I tell you you can find all kinds of interesting images on the internet okay here's the thing most acting teachers will tell you that the only way to name a tactic name what you're doing to the other person is a verb here's the problem with that I'm really bad at finding verbs I don't know why I I really struggle with it and all through my training in graduate school my other training um I was just taught that it had to be a verb and then my world got knocked sideways when I went to a conference and there was a great acting teacher there who offered another way that is equally valid that I like even better and that's how are you trying to make the other person feel so I like this better because um you might be great with coming up with verbs I personally am not but in life I am not really cognizant of what verb I'm doing to another person but I'm always somewhere in the back of my mind conscious of how I'm trying to make the other person person feel so for instance I know this morning when I talked to one of my friends that I was trying to make him feel understood and valued I was very very clear in my brain that everything that I was saying was designed to make him feel understood and valued um so maybe you're like me where you're more cognizant of what it is you're trying how you're trying to make somebody feel in a given moment so um we can also frame a tactic is how to make somebody feel so if I want to give get get my boss to give me a raise um we just saw a list of verbs that we can do to them to impress to negotiate to uh to threaten to intimidate all of those things I can also frame that as a way to make them feel I can make her feel powerful I can make her feel valuable I can make her feel generous I can make her feel understanding I can make her feel ashamed for paying me so little I can make her feel threatened I'm going to quit if I don't get a raise and the beautiful thing is that you can mix and match these things you don't have to say well I'm just going to use verbs when I name a tactic or I'm just going to use how I'm going to make them feel in my work I always interchange things I know that I'm seducing the person here and I know that when my seduction didn't work I'm going to make them feel uptight in my next tactic or whatever that that that cringey example I gave is right um I'm going to find different ways to get through to them and I'm going to name those tactics either either as a verb or as it to make them how I want to make the other person feel interchangeably um so to recap a tactic is what you are doing to the other person to try to achieve your objective and you can name your tactic in one of two ways as a verb that you are doing to the other person seducing berading caj in threatening intimidating soothing caressing calming right list goes on and on and you can actually look at a thesaurus or this even a great thing online um that you can find called the actor thesaurus or actor's action words if you're stuck for verbs like I am or if you're stuck for verbs like I am you can tell me that you're using your tactics as a way to make somebody feel something I'm going to make them feel understood I'm going to make them feel valued I'm going to make make them feel scared I'm going to make them feel threatened I'm going to make them feel small I'm going to make them feel like a jerk I'm going to make them feel sexy they're so we can use these things interchangeably and you can mix and match the way you name your tactics