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.
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.
Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted.
This a hybrid (In-Person) format course which combines asynchronous online instruction with semi-regular, required live meetings held in-person. Please see the course syllabus for specifics. Students must be present at course meeting times as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation.
Refund Deadline
No refunds after July 24, 2023
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.
Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted.
This a hybrid (In-Person) format course which combines asynchronous online instruction with semi-regular, required live meetings held in-person. Please see the course syllabus for specifics. Students must be present at course meeting times as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation.
Refund Deadline
No refunds after October 17, 2023
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.
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