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Dialog: A beautiful noise - Final Draft Tutorial
From the course: Learning Screenwriting
Dialog: A beautiful noise
- [Instructor] I've said before, during this course, in fact, that movies are about what you can see and hear. When it comes to what you can hear music and sound effects are important, of course, but what most movie-going ears are tuned to is what the characters are saying. That makes dialogue singularly important. Each dialogue speech has to multitask. It communicates information about the plot. That's the text. It relays information about what the character means, often very different from what they say, that's the subtext. It tells you a lot about the character's state of mind and emotions. It reflects where and how the character grew up to help create the illusion that the character existed before the movie even started. There are a million ways to say good morning, and the way your character says it says everything about your character. Dialogue needs to do all these things at the same time and in a brief format…
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