One of the things you do with dialogue is keep the major parts of it unspoken. Gil Dennis (via theloverboi) God, yes. Please.
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It’s simple. We’re watching it. Develop your characters in such a way that even someone who has never seen True Blood can grasp what they are looking at here. If this doesn’t make sense, get out your notebook and write down everything you can tell about these two people and their relationship and their backstories…
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nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Dialogue is a necessary evil, according to legendary director Fred Zinnemann, and writers of spec scripts should print that out and tack it up over their monitors. It is the polar opposite of telling your story visually. So why do you need it at all? As director Kelly…
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Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Dialogorrhea
nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. There are scripts about people doing things and there are scripts about people talking about things. One of them has a much better chance of making it past the first round of readers in a competition. Visualize the beat. What is the visual information in the scene? Do…
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CONFLICT: FOR THE CONFLICT-AVOIDANT
If you are not a combative or confrontational person, it feels more natural to resolve your interpersonal conflicts quickly and shy away from the hard consequences of failing to do so in your story. Unfortunately, this is opposite of drama, which is what the story is for. Direct, no bullshit, one-of-us-is-going-to-lose conflict is exactly what…
Read moreHow to dialogue: Another beauty. Conflict, check. Personality, check. Entertainment, check. Erin Brockovich was written by Susannah Grant
Read morehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gryenlQKTbE everlxrk: memoirsofatrichotillomaniac: sirhellsing420: A zombie-bitten father tries to save his infant daughter in this bittersweet short film So you’ve been bitten by a zombie. So long, conscious brain activity, hello craving for human meat. But the protagonist of the short film Cargo has bigger problems than his impending demise: he has to find a…
Read moredrarna: before blaming others, think: whats the 1 constant in all your failed relationships? its that cursed egyptian amulet why do u even have that How to Dialogue: Give some attention here to how jokes work.
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