Lesson 2

[Anna Maganini]

MODULE 8 – LESSON 2 – BANTER – ATTACK & COUNTER ATTACK

MY VISION – To write cutting edge, unique, human, soul-inspiring, Oscar-winning scripts that have commercial success and producers line up to buy to make into multi-million dollar movies. Which makes me a Force in the Hollywood Entertainment industry -as a writer, actor, producer, and director.

What have I learned doing this assignment – I feel I already tend to naturally do banter, and attack & counter attack on my lines of dialogue. And especially after doing Module 7 where I elevated many lines of dialogues, I often found myself also elevating the partner’s dialogue to improve and elevate the banter back and forth as well. Where I found this banter lesson to really pay off, though, and where I hadn’t considered it, was in a phone conversation that was kind of blah, and where the Sheriff was on the guy’s side, and was giving him a heads up on something. But then I gave the Sheriff and the guy opposite perspectives and philosophies, and suddenly it really kicked that phone conversation and its consequences up a notch, and it was more exciting too, with us not knowing what would happen in the future . And it gave a better impetus to several other scenes after it.