Crafting Powerful Dialogue
SCRIPT X 415.4
Take a deep dive into putting the best words into your characters’ mouths in this exercise and workshop-based course teaching you to put your best voice forward.
Fall
Spring
Summer
Online
Starting at $695.00
As few as 10 weeks
3.0
What you can learn.
- Learn how dialogue develops character, plot, and theme
- Improve your script’s dialogue and make each character sound unique
- Complete exercises and analyses of successful scripts and clips
- How to take a hands-on approach to improving your dialogue craft
About this course:
Dialogue may seem to be the easiest and most fun aspect of screenwriting (look at all those pages fly by, and with so much white space!), yet it's often the most difficult thing for the aspiring screenwriter to do well. Great dialogue is a vital vehicle for developing character, enhancing plot, and speaking to theme, among its many other uses. This course explores all of dialogue's functions in depth and provides you with the pragmatic skill set that will make your dialogue more effective and make it snap, crackle, and pop on the page. Through writing exercises, analysis of screenplay pages and classic clips from both features and TV, and a dialogue diary that will help you develop an ear for good conversation, you sharpen and hone your dialogue prowess, and you put your new skills to work on your own projects, both present and future.Spring 2021 Schedule
Available Format(s):
These courses are fully online and have no regular meeting times.
Future Offering (Opens February 01, 2021 12:00:00 AM)
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This section has no set meeting times.
Instructor:
Karl Iglesias
379432
Fee:
$695.00
Notes
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Refund Deadline
No refunds after April 14, 2021
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.
This course applies towards the following certificates & specializations…
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