Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
More Than Two Characters Speaking Simultaneously (Dialogue 3)
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez , Playwright and Storyteller
About the video: More Than Two Characters Speaking Simultaneously (Dialogue 3)
Overview
“In this lesson we will see how to manage simultaneous conversations within the dialog. ”
In this video lesson Jimena Eme Vázquez addresses the topic: More Than Two Characters Speaking Simultaneously (Dialogue 3), which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters . Learn to write dialogues that express the intention, emotions, and personality of your characters .
Partial transcription of the video
“When more than two characters speak In this lesson we will work on Dialogue 3, you will have simultaneous conversations. It is located on Monday at noon. When we started writing theater it is common that our scenes deal with only one thing, so we have the characters for ten minutes mulling over the same topic. That can cause us to lose the attention of our viewers or readers. What we can do to make the dialogue more layered is to keep that main theme or the main conversation of that dialogue, but also put others that will be secondary. It is very important that two things happen in this dia...”
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Course summary for: Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
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Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Video & TV, Narrative, Script, Writing
Jimena Eme Vázquez
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez
Jimena Eme Vázquez has been writing stories since she was a child. As she wanted to be an actor, she studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at the UNAM (Mexico City). Through combining these two disciplines she quickly discovered her true calling, and in 2014 she debuted her first piece as a professional playwright.
Today, she writes novels, stories for young people, and above all, plays. Her name has appeared on posters for pieces like Piel de mariposa (Butterfly Skin), Un beso en la frente (A kiss on the forehead) and No todas viven en Salem (They don't all live in Salem). She won first prize for the Vicente Leñero Young Dramatist award as well as the Cuenta Conmigo contest.
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