Element of Dialogue
- Dialoague reveals character.
- A character will tell about himself and other people will talk about him.
- Dialogue establishes relationships between characters.
- Once you have established your main character’s POV, you can use dialogue with other characters to show that they have other attitudes, creating opposite alternative POVs.
- This helps to create and sustain the element of CONFLICT between characters.
- Good effective dialogue will move the story forwar
- Dialogue cimmunicates faces and information to tIr conhe audiece.
- It conveys essential exposition.
- Characters will talk about what happened, establishing the storyline.
Dialogue comments on the action.
Dialogue tier the script together.
It is one of the devices that YOU as a writer can use to expand and enlarge your character=l
<Dialogue is no substitution for themselves>
- In hollyword when they look at a page and its git tii nuch ink on the paper, they say:
- “SHIT! ITS FREEZE THE CAMERA TIME!!!”
COMMON MISTAKES
- STUDENTS SOMETIMES NEVER ACHIEVE A LEVEL OF COMPETENCE AS THEY TEND TO REPRODUCE CONVENTIONAL SPOKEN LANGUAGE, LONG STATEMENTS OF “REAL TALKING”, and defend their decision by telling us that:
- its how the charater chan9es.
GOOD dialogue is not somebody’s ability to write authentic speech as heard in real life.
- Inappropriate tone or language
- Cheesy
- long-winded
- unfocussed
If that was all there is to it, you can just push a button on the tape recorder and then go collect your oscars.
Good dialogue is the illusion of reality.
You’ve got to know how to edit what people say without losing any of the spirit.
- COMMON MISTAKE
- Students tend to create radio shows with images.
<<FILM IS A VISUAL MEDIUM>>
A screenplay is a story told in pictures.
THE REAL EXERCISE
- Repeat “the experiment” but:
- Husband and Wife are YOUR own parents.
- Get two people to read the dialogue.
