Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film

Overview

“In this lesson we will see how to manage simultaneous conversations within the dialog. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: More Than Two Characters Speaking Simultaneously (Dialogue 3), which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film. Develop effective film scripts, from concept development to narrative structure and engaging dialogue..

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: Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film

• Level: Beginner
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• 792 students
• 7 units
• 101 lessons (17h 57m)
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• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, TV, Writing