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.

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Fall
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Starting at $720.00
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.

Winter 2025 Schedule

Date & Time
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Tuesday 6:00PM - 9:00PM PT
Future Offering (Opens November 04, 2024 12:00:00 AM)
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Instructor: Roberto Marinas
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Fee:
$720.00
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Location: Remote Classroom
Notes

Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.

This course is held via video teleconference. Instructors use Zoom to offer live class meetings at the designated class meeting time. Students must be present at the course meeting time as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation. Please inform your instructor if you will miss a class meeting. You are responsible for any class information you missed. We suggest you arrange with a fellow classmate to share their notes when feasible.
 

Refund Deadline
No refunds after January 21, 2025
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.
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Tue Jan 7, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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Tue Jan 14, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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Tue Jan 21, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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Tue Jan 28, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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Tue Feb 4, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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Tue Feb 11, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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Tue Feb 18, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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Tue Feb 25, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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Tue Mar 4, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
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Tue Mar 11, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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