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How To Stop Your Characters’ Dialogue From All Sounding The Same

10 years ago2 years ago07 mins

Aspiring screenwriters are often told that all their characters sound the same. The grandma sounds the same as the teenager. The professor sounds the same as the stripper, etc. The advice generally given to remedy this problem is to: “Give each character a unique voice, speech patterns, inflections, and vocab,” and / or, “Give each…

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Writing Effective Dialogue

20 years ago2 days ago016 mins

In a visually driven media the importance of good written dialogue is often ignored or at best underestimated. Good dialogue adds depth and meaning to a film, whereas thin, poorly written dialogue can detract from the overall mis-en scene, and burden your actors with a performance lacking in verisimilitude. As a writer or filmmaker, you…