Hey, welcome back. This lesson is going to be about dialogue. Okay? The main use of dialogue is to show how your characters behave. Dialogue is how they show what they need, and what they want. Dialogue is how they show how they see themselves in the world and in the eyes of others.

It's what they say and how they say it. Now dialogue also has to keep the momentum of the plot, it has to move things to the next scene will keep the audience enthralled and engaged. If you have your story, plot and structure, you can get the feel of what your characters are going to say. And also how they're going to say it. There's going to be downloadable PDFs, that's going to have examples of dialogue that's well written and dialogue that can be better written. Okay.

So, most importantly, regarding dialogue, your job as a screenwriter is to be alert to how people talk how they pause. And how they phrase things, especially when they're trying to fool themselves and fool other people. Basically when they're trying to get something from another person. Your job as a screenwriter is to listen so that you can mimic on paper, the rhythms, cadence, style and tone of the character. This will be crucial in your script, making your character sound like people struggling with real challenge. Remember that film is a visual medium, and it has to have drama and momentum.

Dialogue should not get in the way of that you should avoid having your characters explain what's happening, and when needs to have. That's called exposition. an exposition is information that's given cold information is better presented visually interest now, the audience wants to figure out what's going on and how the story will go. They like to feel involved and that they might have the story figured out. If you have characters telling everything through dialogue, then this just telling you it's it's not showing in a live You can write dialogue like Elmore Leonard or David Mamet, you better refrain from having your characters explain stuff in each other. Movies are short, so you have to make dialogue multitask.

If your story has something so momentous, it forces the characters to be at a loss for words, go ahead and use the power of silence. Now, you're probably going to be creating a whole bunch of different characters and is going to include ethnic hair, write the dialogue without trying to make the character sound like they have accents. You simply indicate a specific race of a character and then indicate that they have an accent. It's up to the director, and the actress to do the rest. Many writers misspell words to give her character the appearance that they have an accent. It's tiring to read.

It could be seen as insensitive. Go online and read the script for voice and notice how Singleton avoided going crazy with the stick dialogue. Go online and read the script. for boys in the hood, notice how Singleton avoided going crazy with the ethic dialogue. He doesn't misspell penny. Now, people hardly ever go to the movies to hear great dialogue.

But people will remember the dialogue was bad, boring and not believable. Everything you script must work together to carry the story. And it has to engage the audience along with it to the very end. And that is going to be our next lesson. We're going to look at endings