Mastering the Art of Writing Engaging Script Dialogue
This video explains everything you need to know about writing better dialogue in your screenplay and teleplay scripts. Topics covered include: Research, showing on screen, exposition tips, writing between the lines, unique voices, redundancy, conflict, interrupting conversations and much more.
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Chapters:
00:00 Opening
01:42 Writing Action Lines
02:18 Gather Useful Research
03:25 Show...Don’t Tell
04:24 Use an Outsider for Exposition
04:55 Write Between the Lines
05:46 Develop a Complete Character
07:09 Give Characters a Unique Voice
08:10 Avoid Redundancy
08:30 Stretch Important Information
08:54 Show us the Interesting Stuff
10:25 Logical Conflict
12:34 Interrupt Conversations
13:17 Take Advantage of Every Role
14:29 Don’t be Basic
15:17 Tell us More Through Narration
15:53 Make your Actors Happy
17:15 Make Speeches Count
17:45 Stay Consistent Until you Shouldn’t
18:51 Foreshadowing & Call Backs
19:40 Relationships Alter Speech
20:28 Sydney Lumet’s, “Rubber Duckies”
21:12 Does it Bring You Joy?
21:50 Read Your Script Out Loud
23:55 Learn More
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