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Lesson 10: Dialogue 7 – 8
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CJ’s Dialogue 7-8
I found I use a lot of dialogue as action and definitely to keep an eye that it’s not too on the nose. I also had a fair amount of subtext as cover-ups but no real subtext pointers, so will also focus on that with each draft.
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Lloyd’s Dialogue 7 and 8
Working hard every day to become the best writer I can be and as a result I do become the best writer in Hollywood.
What I learned from this assignment is to continue to tailor your dialogue to the characters and their profiles. This is an ongoing process for the streaming and TV pilot for Benjamin Greene. I continue to use the dialogue techniques to come up with new and interesting ways to say something. Slowly but surely, I am eliminating average dialogue and learning to look for better ways to say something without saying it on the nose.
I also deleted and removed all of the profanity on the TV pilot. The dialogue is designed to be aired on national TV. The Streaming was toned down a bit. The TV pilot was edited at 45 pages while the Streaming ended up being 59 pages. Irony, sarcasm, banter, warnings, setup with open loops, someone hiding from future consequences, betrayal, indirect prediction about judgement day. These were all added.
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