Tone Row Possibilities

Hi All.

Some thoughts towards creating a 6 element "tone row" for your scenes, if you have not started yet.

One thing that might help you upon starting is make a rule for yourself as to how you are going to integrate your tone row scheme into your scene. Will it be every line is a new "note"? Every 3 words? The "note" shifts every time a new character speaks? Once you decide, try to stick to this rule (although certainly you will break it once or twice)

Here are some examples of some ways you could create your primary tone row.

STRUCTURAL
Entrances and Exits
(Ex: Super Slow Entrance, Cautious Entrance, Fast Entrance, Fast Exit, Despondant Exit, Super Slow Exit.)

Transitions
(Ex: Lights up bright, Lights change to red, Black Out, Sound Cue, New Set Piece Rolls on, Extreme Costume Change)

Musical (to be applied to lines and silences)
(Ex: Stacatto, Retard (slow down), Extended Syllable, Repeat 3X, Glissando (high to low or low to high), Pianissimo (very quiet)

CHARACTER

Moods
(Ex: Ecstatic, Furious, Mildly Amused, Mildly Irritated, Deadpan, No reaction)

Desires (this is a bit of a wild card - not exactly sure how this translates into speech, but it is interesting to think about and could be a fantastic failure!)
(Ex: Wants Food, Wants Sex, Wants Money, Wants Affirmation, Wants to be Hurt, Wants to be Famous)

MORE RANDOM/DA DA
Bad Accents (Assign each a numerical value, accents must shift through the scene, could be one accent per line, characters could shift accents within monologues, etc.
(Ex: Irish, Chinese, African American, Minnesotan, French, Yiddish, Russian)

Objects (Appearing / reappearing / being referred to or I suppose possibly even the objects are the characters)
(Ex: Roll of Toilet Paper, Apple, Piggy Bank, Feather Pillow, Sword, Coffee Pot)