Dialogue: Finding your character’s voice
In a movie, a character conveys their inner life in two ways: action and dialogue. As such, dialogue is critically important to the success of your screenplay. This 2-week online Core class teaches you key principles and practices for writing strong dialogue.
You will learn ways to dig into your characters to find their voice as well as time-proven tools to write dialogue that is distinctive, effective, and realistic.
You will put to use what you have learned by workshopping one of your story’s primary characters, finding a synergy between who they are and what they say.
* Six written lectures / three per week.
* Forum Q&As moderated by the instructor.
* Weekly workshop writing assignments with instructor and class feedback.
* Live teleconference call between instructor and class members.
And the instructor for this session is Tom Benedek who has written over 30 film and TV projects including the hit movie Cocoon:
Hopefully you can learn to write dialogue like that!
The class runs from January 30 through February 12, 2012. For more information, go here.
Don’t forget:
* “Craft: Story Summaries — Loglines to Beat Sheets” [January 16–22]. Instructor: Scott Myers. Learn six story summaries screenwriters need to know: Logline, Synopsis, Breakdown, Treatment, Scriptment, Beat Sheet. For more information, go here.
* “Pages I: The First Draft” [January 23-April 1]. Instructor: Scott Myers. A 10-week workshop to take you from FADE IN to FADE OUT. For more information, go here.
* Pages II: Rewriting Your Script [January 23-April 1]. Instructor: Tom Benedek. A 10-week workshop to assess and revise one of your scripts. For more information, go here.